Pritchard for £12+2m is not enough. £14 upfront I think represents a bare minimum and a not very well fought transfer on our part. Good, youngish, English and creative in January! We should be making it clear to Pritchard, his agent and any suitors that he is only leaving if they pay inxs of £16m, afterall he owes us after his injuries, he's barely played. Then assuming we don't go up he can then leave for not less than £15m in the summer. He should be happy with that as he can't believe Huddersfield are nailed on to avoid relegation and his choices should be increased if he plays well for us for the rest of the season. It ain't like he's badly paid here and he signed his contract, time to show a little loyalty to a club he was happy to sign for.
From our perspective, he is a flexible peg in a round hole, that he would rather play in the square hole, at 10, his best position means that long term we could be better balanced as a team with some one whose preferred and best position is wider but, are we realistically going to buy or promote some one from the youth who is going to be as good? Sell him and we get worse, no two ways about it.
Add to that, we seem incapable of wearing the trousers during transfer negotiations and we'll probably have another over the odds player ready for the bench or a loan spell and again a weaker first XI.
Bah!