Thought getting Fraser was a bit too good to be true... get 5mil and get him back on loan for the rest of the season, or a new striker in and it is good business. If we sell him for any less than 3mil and/or don't replace him, it'll be a terrible move
Can’t see anyone taking a punt on Burstow today. He’s not shown enough yet, any serious interest I reckon would happily pay a mill or two more and see how he performs over the next few months with an eye on the summer
I suppose we could Loan back Burstow of he's sold and send Lee back to Luton to deal with the match day loan issue.
With Fraser in you could say he takes Lee's role in side.
Not ideal imo but a possibility if need be.
We could "do a Shinnie" with Lee outside the window, unless he is recalled today, there is nothing to stop us doing that tomorrow or next week.
God let’s hope not.
We released Shinnie so it's not like we would have to give him a new contract in the summer and gets round the loan issue. It probably wouldn't cost us anything either.
You would hope any deal would involve him being loaned back to us for at least the rest of the season. He clearly has a lot of potential but he is never going to get in a Premier Leaque squad this season so hopefully we might still have him for the rest of the season.
I'm pretty philosophical about his sale, big clubs will always try and find the best young talent and not many young lads are going to turn down a Premier league team and all the benefits associated with that. Not much TS or the club as a whole can do about that in the short term at least.
What I would hope is that we get a decent fee, I'm sure TS said shortly after his arrival that the days of us selling our best academy stars for under market value was over and let's hope so. I don't mind seeing young players move on but it really sticks in the throat when we ask for peanuts for them.
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I guess we have Kanu who will be sold next January - rinse and repeat
We are a league one club, we can't do a thing once Prem teams come in for our youngsters.
I'm pretty philosophical about his sale, big clubs will always try and find the best young talent and not many young lads are going to turn down a Premier league team and all the benefits associated with that. Not much TS or the club as a whole can do about that in the short term at least.
What I would hope is that we get a decent fee, I'm sure TS said shortly after his arrival that the days of us selling our best academy stars for under market value was over and let's hope so. I don't mind seeing young players move on but it really sticks in the throat when we ask for peanuts for them.
We needed another striker before selling Burstow and loaning out Davison so let's see who we get.