Your the boss.
You receive bids for your best player in Jan, he isn’t agitating for a move so you refuse. Then his boyhood team comes in with all the dirty tricks, his agents see a big payday and are in his ear. He refuses the biggest contract in the club’s history and says he wants to go.
You can refuse to sell, knowing he won’t give 100% as he isn’t full committed, and will leave for nothing in 12 months, meaning you have no funds from the sale to strengthen. He won’t move to another club meaning you can’t created a bidding war, so your only option left is to reluctantly sell, and negotiate the best price you can. You can of course ask for £30m, but OM refuse to pay that, and your back to having a lad not fully committed in the toughest league in the world
Player wants to go, holds all the cards, and despite us giving him the platform to go from non league to WC international and EPL stage, is adamant he’s off
What am I missing?
If you have a silver bullet for this situation I think your going to be a rich man, as you can sell your answer to Daniel Levy for Kane, PSG for Mbappe, Pep for Walker possibly & Brighton re Caicedo
Bit too late for Klopp re Henderson, Pep for Gundolan and Mahrez…..
I wonder if the aggression should be pointed towards the player refusing the best contract ever offered, rather than the owner sanctioning it?
Of course maybe a little, but he’s going to the club he loves, should we hold him back? Remember we took Billy in similar situation
He is turning his back on a chance to showcase his talent in the worlds best league for a league no one really cares about - in some ways I respect that he’s chasing his dream rather than a year with us, and a platform to potentially move to a top team here, or Spain or Italy
