Then the club would have been quite right to turn it down, a tad different to turning down £6million.

End of the day it’s a ‘two thirds’ ST, so they’ll just pro rata it like the half ST.

I know it is, that’s why I said ‘if’.

Well obviously, they will then simply run their contract down. However, if the argument is bids were being turned down for c£6million, as it wasn’t ‘value’, then that is a ridiculous state of affairs for a skint club for a player with a year left as he’ll soon be fecking off for nowt.

If a player is in his last 12 months and won't sign a deal then he must be sold, especially if he will attract a decent fee. Has to be this way as a non parachute club. What folk on social media think is irrelevant.

Not sure about that as they did the same offer last season.

How about not playing it there then?

Still dearer than a full ST at PNE.

'Two bad sides' is another. Think some football fans watch too much top 4 PL stuff on TV and have lost all perspective, guess what most teams at this level are crap if that's your barometer.

Of course he shouldn't have been sold when flying high mid season in 21/22, however no excuses for him not going last summer. Though if he'd have been signed up on a new deal in the summer of 2021, a la Gallagher then obviously he would've gone for a good fee this summer. Just a debacle all round.

Totally wrong move all round. We need the bodies here (be it him or his replacement that never arrived) and he’s gone into a club in turmoil on and off the pitch. Cheers Venky’s.

And yet their supporters still traipse down, great being a football fan, ain’t it. 😁

Difficult to get into when you have a huge group stage that goes on for nearly SIX weeks!

That’s forums for you.

Don’t think he has to prove anything, he’s still a teenager. It’s poor recruitment by the club that left him as the main man in midfield, expected to dictate games twice a week, instead of managing his minutes and introducing him gradually, and lo and behold he’s now picking up injuries.

Sure our Rev will be leading the plaudits…

He’ll get a contract at Stoke or wherever. What a bloody feck up the club made of this one.

Exactly. Some players certainly do have the ability they just don’t want it enough, whilst other more limited players have the mentality and have grafted their arses off to carve out a decent Premier League career.

… with local businessmen owning the club who had no choice but to sell playing assets to pay the leccy bill, not billionaires.

If he had a great season and went for a £10 million fee (I’m plucking figures out the air here) and a good percentage of that was put back into player recruitment then fair enough, just the way it is at this level, ‘models’, ‘Brentford’ and all that. Alas, it won’t as we are now reduced to selling star academy players and goalkeepers to merely pay day to day bills.

Must be something in the mentality of players that ply their trade at this level. Plenty of talented footballers, but you can wave goodbye to most games if you concede the first goal.

I know we didn’t, ‘we were shit and they were too’ is the flip side of patronising managers/opposing fans saying how marvellous the team they just put 4 past are.

Play terrible and score 4, yet play great most other weeks and ship 3/4 each time… go figure 🤷‍♂️

It’s a fair price. As an example Rovers have to price League Cup ties far cheaper than a Championship game as even fewer folk would turn out in comparison to a league game than they do already. Women’s football isn’t seen as a top rank product either, that may change, but it is still semi pro at this level at the end of the day. Yes, it means the Women’s team ‘can’t wash its face’ and is subsided by the wider club, but then again the club as a whole can’t wash said face anyway without Sky/Venky backing.

Good job his leg didn’t get broke, ay!