Raskin and Igamane called up for Belgium and Morocco

[Graeme Ro55 994]

7 hours ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

There is no reason we cannot command £15-£20 million for a 24 year old Belgian international.

But how much would it cost us to replace him, if there was someone of his standard available ? Wee Nico has been our best player this season. I would rather keep him, make him captain, and build around him with the supposed 49er's budget. 

[Rousseau 11,513]

45 minutes ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

But how much would it cost us to replace him, if there was someone of his standard available ? Wee Nico has been our best player this season. I would rather keep him, make him captain, and build around him with the supposed 49er's budget. 

He cost £1m.

[Sutton_blows_goats 6,007]

2 hours ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

But how much would it cost us to replace him, if there was someone of his standard available ? Wee Nico has been our best player this season. I would rather keep him, make him captain, and build around him with the supposed 49er's budget. 

I'd rather keep him too, but its unlikely he will want to stay. He will want a bigger league and wage. We cant give him either.

 

We need to get out of this mindset of being scared to let players go because we cant replace them. Its held us back for years now. 

[Bluedell 6,001]

And the more we're able to sell players for big money, the more attractive we become for other players as they'll see us as a pathway to a top 5/top 2 league team. 

[Rousseau 11,513]

Diomande started for Côte d'Ivoire. 

 

[Graeme Ro55 994]

18 hours ago, Rousseau said:

He cost £1m.

There is a big difference between the £1M Nico and the player we have now. Were we to replace him with another £1m player it sets the team back again, then we don't win, then we sack another manager, then we blame the the new board...etc...etc. We need to keep the winners if we want to keep our boot on the throat of smeltic. 

[Devil's advocaat 1,787]

28 minutes ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

There is a big difference between the £1M Nico and the player we have now

But that's the whole point.

 

We should have sold Morelos when Lille asked, he was a far better player than the one we signed from Finland.

 

But he went for feck all, and you're then left trying to replace him without the healthy fee in your hip pocket.

 

We have to sell when a players stock is high*, and trust our recruitment to go again.

 

* and players look for their next move when they're in a strong position too.

[Rousseau 11,513]

3 hours ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

There is a big difference between the £1M Nico and the player we have now. Were we to replace him with another £1m player it sets the team back again, then we don't win, then we sack another manager, then we blame the the new board...etc...etc. We need to keep the winners if we want to keep our boot on the throat of smeltic. 

We kept Morelos, Kent, Goldson, Aribo, Kamara, etc. long after their peak value. 

 

How much did we win?

 

We're still counting the cost.

 

We need to get the player trading model working.