It's all hypothetical... not real and currently no bids or concrete interest but as you say his value has gone up and is the one out of the whole squad to fetch a good sum or likely interest.
It's all if buts and maybes to see if anyone would cash in our riches to strengthen the rest of the squad with 3 days of the window to upgrade from shopping in exchange and mart to having a pick from the show room.
The who scenario of the thread was a hypothetical one
The scenario was your MR, it's this morning (29th), you received a bid for Jordan Willis from Blackburn, a good fair bid too that reflects his current form.
Would you...
A) accept to wheel and deal with the targets you'd already identified and set out should a scenario like this happen and cash come available to strengthen to hope to see the squad over the line
Or
B) reject bid and go as you are as he's vital to the club moving forwards, we're good enough, and hope there's no more injuries in the attacking areas and hope a target becomes available in the next 3 days with the small amount of budget you got left.
The side aspect was you drew Wigan away in the cup so no additional pay day as such and James Maddison is staying st Norwich this window.
What would you do as manager with 1st time promotion key in most fans thoughts and your start of season target.
B all day long.
Look, this hypothetical scenario you pose is totally flawed. It’s a much worthwhile question asking whether or not we should sell Stevenson for some imaginary striker or whatever.
Here are some things for you to think about:
- it’s now the 29th Jan, assuming we receive bids for Willis, the likelihood is the deal won’t be completed until the last minute. We’ll end up with cold feet because we couldn’t act without a deal going through.
- carrying on to this point, if we were in a position to act on deadline day, prices for any targets would likely be inflated and because it’d be so late in the window. The possibility is we’d end up losing our best CB and no replacement.
- January isn’t the time to be making massive changes to our squad, generally, a couple of signings to supplement what you have. If we sold Willis, we’d still need another CB for cover at least.
- bigger picture now, Willis can play at L1 standard, if we want to get to L1, and stay there, you keep players who are good enough for that division. Which means not wasting money on a decent L2 standard striker. As we seen with Davies - who’s at Oldham, who are in a relegation dogfight - L1 players aren’t going to drop to L2.
I’d have no qualms if you were asking this in the summer because there’d be plenty of time to do deals. We don’t have time as a luxury in this window. In short, it’d be naive at best, damn right stupid at worst to sell Willis at this point in the season.
