WilliamMunny
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Personally I don't see the benefit in doing that. I'd rather keep him and get the £10m+ in the summer. That way he remains fully committed to the club and we would be beneficiaries of any increase in his value.
Villa bid for Morgan Rogers
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But we know that he hasn't been able to train all season because of the injury. His fitness levels are not going to be ideal going into this tournament.
I wouldn't complain at £10m if the money is reinvested, but it won't be £10m - they're rumoured to have offered £5-6m - which isn't enough in my opinion.
The type of player Rogers is will be very hard to replace - Chair from QPR definitely isn't the answer.
Quicksilvera
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I think the fact nobody has signed chair tells it’s own story.
Jonathan
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Where he's been coming off the bench because he's not yet ready to start?
Are you aware that injuries heal? Generally not considered that mysterious.
Corcaigh_the_Cat
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The rule is players can't recover unless they're at Hurworth every day. Overseas training and minutes on the pitch aren't part of a recovery.
BoroBourneNBred
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If we get over £10million, we go & purchase Conor Chaplin & Morgan Whittaker
BoroMart
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That goes to show what a young player proving it at a higher level does to value.
Morgan Rogers hadn't really done much at Blackpool, but then he was out of position and very young in a poor team. Thus we got him for peanuts, possibly less than 1.5m.
He's starting to do it with us now. At least one team appears to value him at 6.5m+, so his value has increased 433% in just 6 months.
If he stays in the first team, continues creating and scoring, has a strong game vs Chelsea, we could easily see offers doubling in the summer to 13m.
If we get promoted, and he has a good season in the prem it could double again to the 25m+ mark
We need to have a view of what a players potential value in 2 years is, and it seems the club have that. The chances of him being worth less than this 6.5m offer in 2 years, seem negligible baring injury, so it would be a no from me.
Jonathan
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Honestly bizarre how some of our fans are gagging for there to be some big conspiracy where our injured players aren't really injured, it's so strange.
Smoggyonthesolent
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With McGree back and Azaz haven't we potentially got replacements?
I'd absolutely love to sign Morgan Whittaker - but my first choice would still be to keep Rogers.
newyddion
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It feels a bit like Azaz was brought in as a replacement for Rogers..
Low_Key
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yeah this looks like it has been on the cards for a few months.
all that is left to do is agree the price with Villa by the looks of it
I can see that and if it is the case then the speed with which we did it reflects well on our scouting/recruitment team.
The only odd thing is that we bought Azaz from the team that is trying to buy Rogers so why not just strike some player plus cash deal at the time?
BoroMart
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It doesn't rely on a big sale every year, it relies on frequent sales to meet FFP and raise investment money.....although as was pointed out on an earlier thread on the clubs financial figures, we have potential to invest money from the owner at the moment (and with our debt being significantly reduced we are in a good position to take out loans) and we have sufficient FFP head room to use it. This year, I don't think we "need" to sell unless it's done to finance other signings. So the ball appears to be in our park. 10m offer comes in we could go and spend 10-15m if we choose on 3x 4-5m players and still be FFP compliant and have working capital.
The club will have a figure, and it's clearly significantly above 6.5mfair play
I agree, but I don't think he's an improvement on Rogers.
He's a great player - but for me he's a player who needs to be alongside a player like Rogers - Luke Cundle was that man at Plymouth (just signed for Stoke).
If we do sell, Rogers needs to be replaced in my opinion.
Agree. It felt like we were stacked in those positions and I was a bit surprised we had signed a no10 before a striker especially with the injured players all coming back to fitness. It now makes sense.
One thing at stake here is that the club need to set a precedent for future transfers - we aren't pushovers and if you want our best players you'll have to pay for them.
If we sold Rogers (young, great potential, long contract) for relative peanuts then when it comes time to sell Hackney we can't then go demanding £30m.
If we sold Rogers (young, great potential, long contract) for relative peanuts then when it comes time to sell Hackney we can't then go demanding £30m.
