Jimmy1
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I've been struggling to make sense on where I stand on this but I feel we are in a damned if we do damned if we don't type situation.
On one hand keeping Stones shows great intent and resolve. On the other hand if the player wants to leave, and we don't achieve anything substantial this season, then he will still want to leave next summer and we go through this again.
In my heart I would love for the strategy of keeping our young, potentially class players together and watch them mature and help us succeed. It seems to be the only way we can do it with limited finances and investment. However this strategy has a big question mark over it. How long will it take? Will us fans have the patience to see it through, especially should a period of results like last season occur? Will the players themselves be happy to give it the time needed?
If we sell now, which obviously cant happen now due to last weeks events, then we can re invest and bulk out our thin squad. This sounds good on paper but in practice who can we seriously get who will improve us. We could buy three or four players but in reality one or maybe two of them will succeed with the others being useless as often happens in this scenario.
So keep Stones and hope we come good quick or sell and in doing so green light the sales of Barkley, Lukaku etc in the future also. Personally I cant see a happy ending here. Or maybe its just Sunday evening pessimism.
On one hand keeping Stones shows great intent and resolve. On the other hand if the player wants to leave, and we don't achieve anything substantial this season, then he will still want to leave next summer and we go through this again.
In my heart I would love for the strategy of keeping our young, potentially class players together and watch them mature and help us succeed. It seems to be the only way we can do it with limited finances and investment. However this strategy has a big question mark over it. How long will it take? Will us fans have the patience to see it through, especially should a period of results like last season occur? Will the players themselves be happy to give it the time needed?
If we sell now, which obviously cant happen now due to last weeks events, then we can re invest and bulk out our thin squad. This sounds good on paper but in practice who can we seriously get who will improve us. We could buy three or four players but in reality one or maybe two of them will succeed with the others being useless as often happens in this scenario.
So keep Stones and hope we come good quick or sell and in doing so green light the sales of Barkley, Lukaku etc in the future also. Personally I cant see a happy ending here. Or maybe its just Sunday evening pessimism.
