by ferrarilover » 12 Jun 2012, 21:46
No, of course not Dave, and no one in their right mind is arguing against what you say, but what irks people (well, me) is that it seems that we seem to have the attitude that it somehow our duty to let players go for next to nothing because we are 'little old Torquay', whereas other clubs at our level and even below learned to play hardball (if we MUST use a turgid Americanism) many moons ago. We must learn to realise that we are in a position of strength when it comes to player sales because we have something that only we have (the player in question), but there are an infinite number of clubs out there who have what we want (cash), so the deal will be structured to suit us, not the buyer.
We are facing this very situation with Bodin (just to keep a neat symmetry), there is only one Billy Bodin, but probably 20 clubs with money who want him, so his price will undoubtedly go through the roof and way, way over our heads. If no one will meet Di Canio's crazy valuation (quarter of a million?) then he will just keep Bodin.
And before anyone (Dave) tells us all that there is not really a bidding war for Eunan, then let me tell you all that that is fine. For me, I want ZERO clubs bidding for Eunan, what's the worst that will happen? We get to keep the best midfielder in L2 for another season, some bloody hardship.
Given our trouble in getting players and the situation we are in (that is, and thank God for it, being a club run properly), £175,000 won't even come close to being enough to replace Eunan with equal or greater quality, even cumulatively over two or three players, so, if he goes for that sum, we will, all else being equal, be a slightly less good team next season, and that is definitely NOT how transfers are supposed to work.
Matt.
No, of course not Dave, and no one in their right mind is arguing against what you say, but what irks people (well, me) is that it seems that we seem to have the attitude that it somehow our duty to let players go for next to nothing because we are 'little old Torquay', whereas other clubs at our level and even below learned to play hardball (if we MUST use a turgid Americanism) many moons ago. We must learn to realise that we are in a position of strength when it comes to player sales because we have something that only we have (the player in question), but there are an infinite number of clubs out there who have what we want (cash), so the deal will be structured to suit us, not the buyer.
We are facing this very situation with Bodin (just to keep a neat symmetry), there is only one Billy Bodin, but probably 20 clubs with money who want him, so his price will undoubtedly go through the roof and way, way over our heads. If no one will meet Di Canio's crazy valuation (quarter of a million?) then he will just keep Bodin.
And before anyone (Dave) tells us all that there is not really a bidding war for Eunan, then let me tell you all that that is fine. For me, I want ZERO clubs bidding for Eunan, what's the worst that will happen? We get to keep the best midfielder in L2 for another season, some bloody hardship.
Given our trouble in getting players and the situation we are in (that is, and thank God for it, being a club run properly), £175,000 won't even come close to being enough to replace Eunan with equal or greater quality, even cumulatively over two or three players, so, if he goes for that sum, we will, all else being equal, be a slightly less good team next season, and that is definitely NOT how transfers are supposed to work.
Matt.
