But if you acknowledge we need to be recovered, how is it a bad idea to invest in probably our highest value asset on the pitch and off the pitch.
I say fair play to the club for making a fist of trying to keep him and making him feel valued, if giving him a couple of a million a year, gives us another 20-30 mill on what’s been offered thus far - class, it takes him into a different bracket of value and also makes him harder to extract if you add another year or two into his contract, equally class. If your selling anything - you should always be an unwilling seller.
Unless we do a full Moyes in the CL season, he’s likely to move at some point, but keeping the player onside given the power players have these days, keeping his value in the team for as long as we can and letting him appreciate - by investing a bit more in our best player making him harder to extract, I don’t think is a bad thing at all.
He might have a journey here, if he takes us another 5 or 6 places this year and who knows maybe a few more the following year I’m happy he’s getting a couple more million. Hes not comparable to Holgate.
Mina was 120k a week, Gomes on 111k a week, Jarrod probably played more then either in the last few years of their contracts - we need to reward winners and show their is a pathway here.
You know I’m actually not that down on our team, I think we’re recovering it and I think we’l see more improvement this year.
I’ll also be very honest - what’s happened here is his agent has said, right you value him at 75 mill, what your paying him doesn’t reflect that, we will give an extra two years extension on his contract if you give him another 60k a week or we will kick off and go to Utd where he will get 160k a week, it’s a bad agent if he doesn’t, a new contract suits all. That’s the game and you have to be streetwise.
