by Snowflake Royal »
29 Dec 2019 12:34
leon Snowflake Royal leon Not sure why we’d disrupt a team that is gradually gelling after struggling for the past 3 seasons?
Financial pressures
Player commitment
Opportunity to strengthen the squad where it's weak whilst losing a player where it's fairly strong
Enables a younger, fresher replacement who could go further.
It's not ideal, but we need to be realistic. If we want to be competitive and sign good players, we need to sell someone for big money fairly regularly, or we'll fall foul of FFP again.
Unfortunately no one else is stupid enough to pay us £7m for Sone Aluko.
Clearly if we need the money we sell - what I mean is from a football perspective.
Everyone seems to not rate Moore but are we comfortable that we can replace him seamlessly (and making financial sense)?
He's playing well, but he's been pretty ropey not that long ago. He's also been here quite a while, mostly dealing with relegation fights. There is a danger of becoming stale and used to losing (though Bowen is doing a cracking job on that right now).
Plus we have:
Morrison
Miazga
McIntyre
Blackett
We have a couple of full backs and maybe Pele who can 'do a job' in an emergency, plus Odimayo and Osho before we even consider a replacement.
Realistically we're over stocked at CB. Obviously things get strained with two injuries in the same position, but can we really afford to have three decent options for each position?
We have relatively few players who can attract big money at this point and Moore would be one of the more easily replaceable IMO.
We can't really sell Ejaria before he's ours. Puscas is injured and has struggled to make a real impact. We've just seen how crucial Swift is to the side. IMO that basically leaves Loader and Moore. And I think Loader's value and attractiveness is waining.
The general tone isn't "Yay, sell him!", it's "Well, if there's good money on offer we should probably take it as we could use it and have reasonable cover."
WBA are nailed on for promotion and we know he wanted to go to Brighton and how that (thanks to Gourlay) affected his performance.
Obviously if it's bollocks from the twatterati, great.