>>As for us not being a strong seller - surely we are. Healy is on contract.
We have no need to sell. Bates has been telling us for ages that we're no
longer a selling club, and that now he's been given the control of the club
we've turned the corner.<<
We're a selling club when a player wants to leave - as Healy surely does.
He won't want to piss away any more of his career in the lower leagues. He
has a hat-trick against Spain to his name - he wants to play in the prem. He's
28 - time is running out.
Of course, he has to say he doesn't want to leave - anything else would be
tantamount to slapping in a transfer request, which would cost him any
"loyalty bonus" due to him if he's sold while still under contract. You dind't
hear
any of the Ridsdale/DOL era players demanding a move, did you.
When a player only has a short term of his contract remaining, he's unlikely
to fetch big money. Bear in mind if he ran his contract down he'd be able to
leave for nowt on a Bosman - good for the player as no fee means more wages.
Many of you don't seem to have figured out how transfers work these days.
It's no longer a case of "good player = big fee".
Healy's ideal destination is a lesser prem club, where he'll get star
billing (like Rob Hulse at Sheff U). If he does really well at, say,
Sunderland,
he'll be able to get a move to a bigger club when Sunderland get relegated at
the end of next season. Of course, he'll have three or four years of his
contract outstanding so he'll go for decent money - say £7m - to someone like
Man
City.
>From our point of view we need to get a sell-on clause built in - so we'd
get 10% of that. I expect Ken'll be on the case, as well as insisting on
bonuses for keeping the club up (like we had on the Hulse & Killa deals, but
they
weren't triggered as the Blunts went down).
I don't think you can accuse Bates of being weak in the transfer market. But
the reality of a player's value is goverened by the value of his contract.
Mark
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