Bit different though. 20 year old lad first season playing 1st team football he could and highly likely will improve a great deal over the next 5 - 7 years. If that improvement is with us we will get more than 3 million. Liverpool also have had this knack of selling players at their peak with a downward spiral after leaving, ideal scenario.
I hope it would need to be an offer that we are unlikely to get. 3 million is probably realistic for a team to offer from their perspective for him now, but shouldn't be enough for us due to his potential.
What we need to do is have him and Evans swap shirts for the rest of the season. Before you know it, PL teams will be falling over themselves to offer big money for our captain "Corry Evans"
Lookman went for 11 million out of this league. That would be my starting point, tbh. No problem with us selling players if that is the model we are working from but I'd like it to be only when teams are willing to pay over the odds for our players.
It's the offer of a club that looks and sees another club, who for a few years have taken the first bid for any player at all. If such a bid is made , and we accept it, , ( although I very much doubt we would mind), then we are in nowhere near as good a position as we'd all hoped and expected
Yes. That's the thing. If we end up selling players, it should be when we control the sale, not the scavenging agents or opportunistic clubs, looking to make a buck themselves
There’s a difference: Coutinho wanted to leave, and when that happens there’s very little you can do apart from get the best price you can. If Dan Neil wants to leave, get the best price we can, if not keep him and add to the team around him.
Liverpool totally controlled that sale mind. They got an enormous fee and other conditions on future deals between the clubs. In short they took Barca to the cleaners. It's true that players move all the time, but a club in good shape controls the sale of their players.
We are going around in circles now, mate. No player is ever bigger than the club. If a club offers a deal that's too good to turn down then we need to accept it and reinvest wisely. The club needs comes before what Dan or any other player wants.
You've got a very good eye for a player, Samwise! PL clubs would do well to listen to your informed and accurate assessment.
If we sell Dan in January it will be a ridiculous decision, we will get nobody anywhere near as good to replace him therefore massively weakening our side for the sake of cashing in. Makes no sense selling him now ! For the record I don’t think we will sell him, especially for 3 million
chuffed for the lad a star in the making just hope we can hang on to him , once out of this ****ty league and away from crap refs, we will be able to see his full skill level , instead of the hackers we have down here who try and stifle talent
