>>149552571managers are geniuses desu if you think from their perspective
they earn fees over transfer value, so they maximise the value they get out of it
and if you sell to a bigger club, the chances the fees will be way larger than if you sell to a mid-table team
of course, in a mid-table team, their player would play regularly, where as in the giant team they'd become el bencho, but they don't care because money has been made already