I think its too early to sell him, both for his career and for our benefit. We should certainly look to get him back if anyone who signs him then loans him out, make sure that's in the contract.
Of course money comes into it, both from the clubs point of view and the players. Seems that Bigi is set for life after moving to Newcastle and spending a couple of years in the reserves, offers like that will always turn a players head.
Well it's all about the fee isn't it. Every player has his price.
That quote answers your question, Bellamy was a good player who went on to be as successful as Robbie Keane at a number of clubs, the problem here was who the manager was and where he played him mainly on the wing. Today we have a proper manager who i believe would sign the right players to progress.Selling our best players got us to where we are today! Taking your logic, we sold Keane, reinvested in a few players who we expected to be good (Bellamy for example) and look what happened!
As long as the decision to sell is driven more by Mowbray's footballing needs and not Waggots budgetary needs I think it would be acceptable.
Selling our best players got us to where we are today! Taking your logic, we sold Keane, reinvested in a few players who we expected to be good (Bellamy for example) and look what happened! We need to invest on top of keeping Madison and the likes of, get up to the Prem and then sell if the player wishes to leave. Look at Calum Wilson's value now, £10-£15 million at a guess if he continues to prove himself in the Prem. Had we of kept Leon Clarke at Christmas the season before last, I feel we would've had a chance of the playoffs and then who knows. Wilson could've then fired us to the Prem as he did with Bournemouth with some luck and further investment. Having sold Wilson so cheaply, if I was the owner of this club, I'd be looking back now thinking that could've been us on Saturday.
How do you propose the club pays its operating costs? Individuals donating endless amounts of money and then quietly walking away when their money is gone? Are you going to stump up several million?
All clubs sell their best players apart from a very select few. Even Man Ud!
How do you propose the club pays its operating costs? Individuals donating endless amounts of money and then quietly walking away when their money is gone? Are you going to stump up several million?
Tell you what, why don't we just sell any of our young players with any promise right at the start of the season for whatever cash we can get for them without ever really seeing any major benefit to our own promotion hopes for at least a season. Continually doing this will consign us to forever staying at this appalling level, put off other players and managers from joining us and keep SISU in situ. Whilst they can run us without financial input with a chance of gaining interest payments and not declaring their accrued losses to their investors they will stay put. If you want a club that only survives but never achieves anything then fine but.............
If, as we are told, the club is running self sufficiently now then there is no need to sell players to cover costs. So the reasons to sell would be the player wanting to go, TM deciding he'd rather have the money to spend than the player or SISU wanting to take money out to pay a debt from the period prior to self sufficiency.
The club isnt running self sufficiently though is it? We are still losing money.
As i see it we need promotion, this season the gap between league one and the championship is getting wider and wider. A lump of extra cash giving TM a bit of extra clout for recruitment could be the key to getting out. The championship brings in over £4million in TV money i believe, less than half a million in this division. I also think with Mowbray at the helm we can go up with a squad that can compete in that league. Yes it comes a bit late for this window but come January having extra dosh might be the difference between going up or staying put.
The club isnt running self sufficiently though is it? We are still losing money.
But Sisu has been clear that it expects Coventry City to be self-sustainable, an aim Mr Waggott says the club has achieved.
So true. We are a selling club. This is the only way we are going to survive.
If we sold Maddison and got 3 good players in, into the bargain as well as a stack load of cash that could well prove to be a very good deal for us.
McQuoid, Coulibaly and Alsopp mmmmmmmmmmm?
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