Booooooo! However they will just copy each other, or use the same source, so the number of reports isn’t necessarily meaningful.£1.6m exit of Atkinson is also reported on other sources.
I doubt they’re in it to make big personal losses bankrolling us, so suspect we’ll take a seven figure profit and reinvest.1.6 million! A huge test for our new billionaires!
I am surprised as was made to look utterly average by Blackpools forward line, but so much potential.
Agreed, plus we have millionaires on our board, thought we didn’t need to sell….I don’t think that price is as good as a lot make out. Left footed ball playing centre backs are a rarity. Only have to look at Mings getting selected for England due to the lack of them. Also breaks up a outstanding partnership after the back 4 has already lost Ruffels. Not for me. Unless it’s mad money, we have to try and keep him!
We have to sell to be sustainable/viable/profitable. We have to sell to show our current assets and anyone we may want to bring in that there is a pathway to the top that OUFC clearly is not currently. The key is that profit is utilised and Atkinson sensibly replaced. With McNally one for the future, we could sign someone further on in their career with less of a ceiling than RA but perfectly competent at L1 level and be a million quid better off. Reinvest half of that sensibly in another asset and bank half, and the club and its model wins again.If we sell Atkinson then I really do question our ambition and before anyone says we have to sell to survive, sorry but we’re not in the conference anymore, we need to be aiming high
I’m not imagining that Bristol City and Celtic’s transfer budgets during a pandemic are stretching much beyond £1.5m unfortunately.If Atkinson is sold for any figure starting with a 1 then that is another example of why we need someone to handle negotiations, rather than it being left to any one of several people, as we’ve been told is the case currently.
Nothing wrong with selling players on, it’s both essential for the club’s sustainability and a simple reality of life at this level, especially if players want to go (which people often forget matters), but a left footed centre back who likes to dribble 30/40 yards with the ball like that, and who is only going to get better, is a real rarity. Doesn’t matter how much he was bought for - that’s not how it works. He’s worth what he’s worth whether he was signed for £500 or £500,000.
Obviously there would be sell-on clauses etc, but 1.6 would be disappointing. He’s worth at least another million quid up front.
“What price tag should we stick on Atkinson?”If Atkinson is sold for any figure starting with a 1 then that is another example of why we need someone to handle negotiations, rather than it being left to any one of several people, as we’ve been told is the case currently.
Nothing wrong with selling players on, it’s both essential for the club’s sustainability and a simple reality of life at this level, especially if players want to go (which people often forget matters), but a left footed centre back who likes to dribble 30/40 yards with the ball like that, and who is only going to get better, is a real rarity. Doesn’t matter how much he was bought for - that’s not how it works. He’s worth what he’s worth whether he was signed for £500 or £500,000.
Obviously there would be sell-on clauses etc, but 1.6 would be disappointing. He’s worth at least another million quid up front.