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Absolutely. Can not get demanding daft contracts when you have been on the treatment table for the best part of 18 months. Just not going to happen. Shame, poorly advised.

If he gets fit it's a great deal for saints. Like I said previously. Just a perfect storm and the club have to get max possible given contractual situation.

I am certain he would have left 3 weeks ago but funny enough Tones comments about being no where near fit might have got us extra with the deadline day surcharge
That surcharge is fine if we don’t leave a striker shaped hole in the squad again.
 
The flip could also happen, we turn down a 7 million pound bid, he comes back is poor due to his bad injuries - or gets injured again - and we lose him for nothing. Instead of having the money where we could potentially sign a couple of quality players that could improve us

Always a tough decision when it comes to your better players
I am sure that he would be well insured so his value would not be a total loss .
 
If we can get a replacement and they pay enough up front take the ten or even something close and the ten if they reach the play offs and he plays. However, we need a suitable replacement or they’re not making us competitive.
Id like 10m with 5m add ons if they make play offs or get promotion then a sell on for any future sale
 
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Probs actually was but our squad was ****ed and short had no clue what he was doing and massive debt , big sam knew how to manage big jan soon as moyes come in he was always injured clearly a good manager to do what hes done with west ham
Short was the problem. Moyes didn’t have a chance, but still made some odd decisions (Everton players)
 
Absolutely. Can not get demanding daft contracts when you have been on the treatment table for the best part of 18 months. Just not going to happen. Shame, poorly advised.

If he gets fit it's a great deal for saints. Like I said previously. Just a perfect storm and the club have to get max possible given contractual situation.

I am certain he would have left 3 weeks ago but funny enough Tones comments about being no where near fit might have got us extra with the deadline day surcharge
Great player and done well for us but he's 27 and coming back from a bad injury. He's at his peak years so he's not going to be worth much more than that in 2 years time. Soton aint going to make money on him.His game is very much based on his mobility and workrate so unlikely he will get faster or fitter. He's played a handful of games at this level and is still very unproven really. Let's see what happens but I'm not particularly concerned that we are losing someone who could potentially be worth 30m in a year or two
 
if like it looks certain Stewart goes and we dont get replacement this window will be a massive failure

I can see your point of view but if we get Rusyn we've got him Hemir and Mayenda fighting over one spot. I'd say it's a risk but a calculated one and definitely not a massive failure.

I do also think that if we sell Stewart we'll have a loan deal lined up for sure.
 
I don’t think people are taking into account that if we turn down an offer for Stewart and he decides he’s going to leave next summer he will already have one foot out of the door.

Of course he looked decent at this level from the small sample of football we have to judge him off but we can go and get another decent striker and have change for the fee being touted and one who’ll have resale value.

There's 2 key questions for me:

1) will he sign a contract?

2) can we get a replacement in?

If the answer to 1 is no and the answer to 2 is yes, then I think selling him is the realistic option.

Just hypothesising that we spent the money on Cannon (I know he has a lot of suitors), then by the end of the window we would have Cannon, Rusyn, Hemir and Mayenda all owned by the club and under contract for 3-5 years.

Our striker situation will have gone from a long term crisis to potentially the strongest we've seen it depth wise and with a very high ceiling given the room for development.

If however, he will sign a contract or we can't get a replacement, then we keep him.
 
I'm surprised we're getting offers north of 5 mil considering his injury status. I'd definitely sell for anything approaching 10 considering how much we paid for him and his refusal to sign a contract with us.
Because he's 1 of the best strikers in the division, Southampton are getting a great player if he goes there
 
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