I’ve been very critical in the past about Willis last season and earlier this season and felt that it was more than justified. The last 2 months he has been a tower of strength alongside McDonald or Davies and long may it continue. 2 months out of 4 seasons though is not enough and if it meant us having too sacrifice him to get others in to help us over the line then so be it.
That’s exactly what I am saying! He’s been “consistently good” in the last 2 months. He’s never had a spell as good as this in his Ccfc career before.Are you really suggesting he’s only played well for 2 months and never before? Even by your standards, that’s ridiculous
It's all a bit hypothetical isn't it.
You can only sell players that some other club wants to buy.
i know that's obvious but it still seems to pass some people by
I’ve been very critical in the past about Willis last season and earlier this season and felt that it was more than justified. The last 2 months he has been a tower of strength alongside McDonald or Davies and long may it continue. 2 months out of 4 seasons though is not enough and if it meant us having too sacrifice him to get others in to help us over the line then so be it.
Are you really suggesting he’s only played well for 2 months and never before? Even by your standards, that’s ridiculous
That’s exactly what I am saying! He’s been “consistently good” in the last 2 months. He’s never had a spell as good as this in his Ccfc career before.
It depends on what targets there are and their availability.
For example we had agreed a price for Craig Davies but they then changed their mind. Are many of our targets actually available?
Actually I wasn't responding to your OP so much as people who produce a list of players they don't rate and suggest the club should sell themThat was the point of the thread really, it's totally hypothetical to see what we'd all do if a bid came in. A few have read it for what it is, some have missed the idea of the scenario but had a fair input to the bigger picture and what ideally would happen.
I should of wrote it a bit clearer perhaps on my first post so it's my small error.
I'll make it clearer...
If we get a big draw in the FA cup this evening then surely funds for a marquee sighing are assured?
Even a home draw against one of the lesser teams left in the draw will be a big crowd, pretty much nailed on 25,000+.
What is more there should be no need to sell unless it is what the player really wants & keeping him will only unsettle him.
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.
Ahh yes I was forgetting the way the fee is split, still there is a chance it would be the live match on telly & that's worth about £250,000.A 25,000 crowd here would equate to around 11,500 compared to a typical match in League Two so its hardly anything and if it’s Wigan or Rochdale / Millwall the gate would be much much lower.
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.
Well now you've started he could polish them get higher heels.You're in Robins shoes what would you do?
I would take them off he's only got small feet!!
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