Clarke - what would you do? (3 Viewers)

[johnwillomagic]

Everyone on here looks for any excuse to have a pop at sisu but tbh has nothing to do with transfer request. My question is what would you do?

a. Move him on in Jan - if so what fee would you accept?
b. Keep him till end of season - if so how much would tempt you to do option a
c. Keep till end of contract and lose for nothing.

Personally would like to do option b but £750K would move me to option a.

 

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[junglej13]

B then re-evalulate for me.

 

[wafw1971]

Sell him for what we can get, if he stays he will be a unhappy player and will ruin the team spirit that has been evident this season.

 

[covmark]

Sell the prick.

 

[Grendel]

Sell him - he has to go

 

[gouldberg]

Don't think B can be an option with Leon Clarke. He'll become a disruptive personality, doesn't have a problem showing frustration towards management in view of everyone (Di Canio sitaution) so we need to shift him. Slap a £1m price tag on him and see who comes closest to meeting it. Accept and move on.

 

[johnwillomagic]

What is minimum we should accept then?

 

[Grendel]

What is minimum we should accept then?

Around £500,000 I'd guess. He is 28 with only one good season and a poor reputation. It won't be anything like the fees being banded around here.

 

[cloughie]

Sell him for as much as we can get, with his past record of being a problem he will only spoil team spirit as he doesn't want to be here.

The problem is who do we get to replace that many goals

 

[Steve.B50]

800k
He has done well here but always known as a nomad type of player.
If I were him, take the money while you can.

 

[wafw1971]

No idea to be honest.

 

[tuousis]

He wants to go.sell him.

 

[tuousis]

He wants to go.sell him. Nice to see polite posts coming in.

 

[brinner]

Id offer Marlon king a deal till end of the season as he is a free agent, if he is up for it then id cash in on Clarke.

 

[RFC]

We all need to calm down a little bit (including myself), unhappy & concerned but I've seen and experienced similar situations so many, many times before. HELP!

George Hudson, Terry Bly and quite a few more including Dion Dublin & Robbie Keane but times have changed dramatically due to Mr Murdoch (SKY) & very, very greedy agents.

Loyalty counts for nothing these days the likes of 'Oggy', Micky Gynn, Marcus Hall and those who got any where near 10 years have long gone (regrettably).

However as my son put it to me today if I'd have changed jobs every year when I was approached (or tapped-up) to increase your income considerably for doing the same job, would you have taken it? Answer YES!

I'm particularly disappointed because of the sense of togetherness in the squad, he was allegedly happy here and scoring for fun but will he be able to repeat these circumstances, personally I doubt it but who knows?

Basically frustrated by the situation but unhappy and don't wish him well.

 

[Rusty Trombone]

Sell him for what we can get, if he stays he will be a unhappy player and will ruin the team spirit that has been evident this season.

I agree, can't see Pressley wanting him around now. It was good while it lasted, but his long list of former clubs showed what was likely to happen.

 

[cyril]

Him and Presley don't see eye to eye. Get rid. Guys a prick

 

[Del Boy 82]

With Leon's previous attitudes when he's not happy at a club id take a fee now. A sulking Leon around the young lads would be disastrous. Think we need to be realistic tho on a fee we could command, I think we'd be lucky to get 600k, but well never no as it will be undisclosed fee! This is where we see what pressley's got, I believe in him

 

[ccfclinney]

Him and Presley don't see eye to eye. Get rid. Guys a prick

I agree, i think he dont like pressleys training i.e high intensity and maybe they have fell out about it.
We all know leon is a lazy player. Sell him for 500k and try get a promising young player.

PUSB
Keep the faith

 

[skybluericoh]

Get what you can if he wants out then let him go. Thanks for the goals this season, turned what I thought would be deffo religation into some distant hope, but who would want to stay at a club where the owners don't give a shit? Just surprised more haven't done the same.

 

[malkitccfc]

Get rid ASAP. Clive Platt won't be available for long

 

[shy_tall_knight]

Get rid ASAP. Clive Platt won't be available for long

Best line of the night

 

[stupot07]

Sell him now - £800k. Our squad is too young and impressionable to have an unhappy senior player effecting morale. This was one of the reasons Pressley had the bomb squad training elsewhere.

 

[rob9872]

good luck to him, earn it while he can. Do you seriously think foe a non fan journeyman pro who has the chance of being paid more at a club more likely going places that he will be thrilled to run out at sixfields in front of 2 men and a dog? Thanks for the goals Leon. Paid nothing success on the pitch and sold for profit. Compare with the much loved Freddie Eastwood on this forum ...

 

[ccfc_Tom]

Not a player who would try if he didn't want to be here. I'd sell in January for either 1mil+ which id want to see reinvested or trade for another player or two if possible to guarantee we got a replacement.

 

[Hobo]

Keep Leon Clarke if you want to see his lazy side. I value him at around 500 but could get 800...if we get offered 1M or north snap it up quick....honestly I would move him on never been convinced about his attitude. he is a Very good League 1 striker nothing more.

 

[dongonzalos]

Everyone on here looks for any excuse to have a pop at sisu but tbh has nothing to do with transfer request. My question is what would you do?

a. Move him on in Jan - if so what fee would you accept?
b. Keep him till end of season - if so how much would tempt you to do option a
c. Keep till end of contract and lose for nothing.

Personally would like to do option b but £750K would move me to option a.

Option b
But 1.5 million would move me to a with a promise that SP gets a million of it for replacements.

Last time they didn't redistribute the wealth after the January sale and it screwed us and cost them 5 million.

 

[dongonzalos]

Everyone on here looks for any excuse to have a pop at sisu but tbh has nothing to do with transfer request. My question is what would you do?

a. Move him on in Jan - if so what fee would you accept?
b. Keep him till end of season - if so how much would tempt you to do option a
c. Keep till end of contract and lose for nothing.

Personally would like to do option b but £750K would move me to option a.

Did you think we started the season with the right amount of pro's and youngsters this season?

 

[dongonzalos]

We all need to calm down a little bit (including myself), unhappy & concerned but I've seen and experienced similar situations so many, many times before. HELP!

George Hudson, Terry Bly and quite a few more including Dion Dublin & Robbie Keane but times have changed dramatically due to Mr Murdoch (SKY) & very, very greedy agents.

Loyalty counts for nothing these days the likes of 'Oggy', Micky Gynn, Marcus Hall and those who got any where near 10 years have long gone (regrettably).

However as my son put it to me today if I'd have changed jobs every year when I was approached (or tapped-up) to increase your income considerably for doing the same job, would you have taken it? Answer YES!

I'm particularly disappointed because of the sense of togetherness in the squad, he was allegedly happy here and scoring for fun but will he be able to repeat these circumstances, personally I doubt it but who knows?

Basically frustrated by the situation but unhappy and don't wish him well.

Not sure how many posts you have done since joining but this is the first that makes any sense

 

[Grendel]

Option b
But 1.5 million would move me to a with a promise that SP gets a million of it for replacements.

Last time they didn't redistribute the wealth after the January sale and it screwed us and cost them 5 million.

They will never get £1.5 for Clarke

 

[dongonzalos]

Not sure how many posts you have done since joining but this is the first that makes any sense

I know, that's a ridiculous offer to me.
It is the offer that outweighs the loss of selling him at this stage.
5 months is nothing. He knows if he hits his target of 30 goals he will getter a better move in the summer. He won't sulk for long.
However get the ridiculous offer SISU said it would take to sell any if our players. Then you can hardly argue. Then it is purely a case of will they re invest.

 

[coventry is my faith]

Sell him and get someone else into do the job,nothing worse than a player that doesn't want to play for the team !

 

[Gint11]

If the rumours about him handing in a transfer request were just that, then nothing. Now he has handed it in we know his head has been turned and he wants away. Fine. No-one wants to keep a player who doesn't want to be there. We sell him for the highest price we can possibly get or he rots in the reserves. Simple as that. The idiot shouldn't have signed a new deal in the summer.

 

[Deleted member 2477]

Slap a 1 mil price tag on him and make him train with the youth team until he's sold.
An ungrateful greedy cu-t

 

[Otis]

£500,000 would be great business.

The bloke has hardly commanded a fee his whole career, is 29 in just a few weeks, has a disruptive reputation, doesn't hang around anywhere for long and also has a bit of an injury record too.

Take whatever we can get. It won't be anywhere near a million that's for sure.