Why do we still have to sell our best players...

Just to keep the club afloat? Highest season ticket sales for 20 years and we can afford to turn 2.5 million down for a player who's going to be worth at least 30 million at some point in his career. It's a massive kick in the teeth for everyone at the club but no one more so than the fans. We never seem to learn do we?

 

Might be worth £30 million at some point, but he would’ve been worth f*ck all to us next summer.

 

Rather lose out on the 2.5 million and keep him with us for 12 months to be honest.

 

Have a like that I’m unhappy to give

 

So would I but it’s not thine or my money is it pal?

 

Like I said, massive kick in the teeth for the fans. If this is always going to be the ambition of the club, then what's the point?

 

Never will Pinnock command a transfer fee of £30 million

 

Its not to keep the club afloat, its being reinvested back into the squad.

 

Why do we have to sell our best players?

Cos no one wants to buy our **** players.

 

30 million? I’ll have whatever your having.

 

You’d probably be expecting that we sign an adequate replacement for a decent fee too, after he’s left us for nothing.

Surely it makes more sense to recoup a decent fee, rather than keeping a player that doesn’t want to be here, and re-invest it with a replacement or two.

 

I very much doubt it too, was merely quoting the opening post.

 

None of our players ‘want to be here’ every single one of them would jump ship if a better offer came along. Such is life.

 

We can't move 'tarn to London....

Maybe the club should start letting the lads out on a Friday night again.

Mind you last time I was on Wellington street on a Friday it was me and a few tumbleweeds rather than happening flesh pit it was in 97.

 

Are you not missing the point that he wanted to leave. We would not have got the performances required if we forced him to stay. New owners didn't have any input on the contract situation so hands were tied and if they put the money back into this transfer window as they have said they will then it is positive for the club.

 

Did anyone ever see John stones being worth 50million? Just to put it into context, Leicester have just turned down 70 for Harry Maguire.

 

Please don’t lose sight of the fact that last season, the reason for the clean sheets was the lack of skill from our opponents, not the lack of chances. If my memory serves me well, Pinnock, et al gave opposition many chances. Maybe we’ve had Brentford and Stokes pants down and brought in players that don’t give chances.

 

Maybe we need to look at the cause of the problem? Why do players want to leave as soon as a payrise comes along? Because lets be honest he won't be on much more than what we offered him. Maybe its been the last 16 years of the club, three relegations and three promotions, we've been yo-yoing between the second and third tier, when we get in the second tier we're involved in a relegation scrap.

Look at it from a players point of view, all three have gone to clubs that more than likely won't be involved in a relegation scrap. So we need to grow the club back into a mid table second tier side that the players want to stay at.

Last time out in the second tier we added Bradshaw, Moncur, Mowatt & Kpekawa for a fee, all the others were free transfers. Already we have surpassed the fees of all of those players on two of our players this summer with more to come. We are now spending 800k to 1.2m on these promising youngsters, and making bids of £2m if reports are to be believed. Money is being reinvested whereas before half went to plugging the debt.

We're going in the right direction we are just in the early stages of the plan.

 

Said from first time I was down watching u18's that he was outstanding. Pinned my colours to the mast then and got laughed at in the local for suggesting he would make Barnsley 10 million.. Pretty decent prediction I reckon, just how calm he was on the ball looked so far ahead of the rest of em..

As for Pinnock, I wouldn't put him anywhere near his quality. Plus Pinnock is now 26yr old, calling it now that he will not make it to the prem.

 

Come on you can’t put Pinnock in the class of stones and maguire, isn’t he as old or older then them anyway??!!