Outgoing? Hamer

[bladesince64]

Sometimes you only realize how good something (or somebody) is when it's (they) gone.

I love Gus, love his skill, love his positivity, love his unpredictability and when was the last time we had a player who could hit a thunderbolt of a shot like the goal v Mansfield - Michael Brown?

 

[Wards]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

 

[Stretch]

We are a better team when he doesn't start these days, but I have to be honest, I always feel like we have a real asset and game changer when he is on the bench.

He is inconsistent, but when he is actually on it he is still one of the best players in the division and I think most championship managers would walk over hot coals to sign him.

If the price is right be should probably cash in, but I wouldn't be in a rush just yet.

 

[Roygbiv]

Are any of the clubs mentioned closer to his family whom we understand , and accept as a reason to leave without a quibble ( I do anyway ), though??

I've thought a parting of the ways inevitable all season, but if he isn't going " home " business becomes business.

Depends on what countries his missus get can get a visa in I think.

 

[Slug]

I can see us taking a lowish fee just to free up wages. Can probably get 2 decent players for the wages he's on who will actually make the first team. We can't afford him if he's not going to be our best player and he can't even get in the team at the moment. I think £8m is the absolute most we'll hold out for but I can see it being lower

You would imagine that it would be at least a 3 year deal for whoever signs him. That would take us to the summer of 2029 and Gus will have just turned 32.

With the shape he is in now, I'm not sure he will make it as a top 2 level player by the end of that time.

Buying clubs will know this and also how happy we will be to get his massive wages off the books, so can't see us getting much more than the figures quoted.

However, with it being so low, I do still think we could get a similar figure in the summer, so it might be worth a gamble to keep and have him as a potential match winner on the bench.

 

[Davalon]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

Not sure it's that simple.

I'm one of those who has been frustrated by a proportion of our fanbase for plenty of years who seem more interested in work horses and percentage football than the type of football that brings more sustainable success.

I'm a fan of Gus but this season his contribution has been very fleeting rather than consistently taking games by the scruff of the neck.

We also started scoring more goals in his absence.

 

[Nick Jansky]

If he is sold ,we usually underate our players

Do we? Who are the recent examples of that?

 

[PrestwichBlade]

Do we? Who are the recent examples of that?

I think some people still think it's like 1997 or something.

 

[Roygbiv]

You would imagine that it would be at least a 3 year deal for whoever signs him. That would take us to the summer of 2029 and Gus will have just turned 32.

With the shape he is in now, I'm not sure he will make it as a top 2 level player by the end of that time.

Buying clubs will know this and also how happy we will be to get his massive wages off the books, so can't see us getting much more than the figures quoted.

However, with it being so low, I do still think we could get a similar figure in the summer, so it might be worth a gamble to keep and have him as a potential match winner on the bench.

Totally agree with this. The money probably isn't worth taking right now if we think there will still be interest in the summer

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Sell Chong, Matos, AI lads, Shackelele, McGuinness.

Combined they’ll be on more. Could scrape around £4m for that lot? And we get to keep a bums-off-seats player.

Simple this football lark.

 

[FriethBlade]

Too many Unitedites would sooner watch a team full of cloggers and revert to the perennial underdog tag.

Get rid of Gus and it's a slow erosion of skill and flair until we become the next Stoke or Norwich.

Exactly Wards. Let's go back to basics, why do we watch football? We watch it because we love our team, the camaraderie, the days out, the excitement, the memories etc.

The excitement and memories for me are the promotion winning days, beating the pigs 3-1 and 4-2 at their place, winning at Leicester, bouncing around with your sons when Tyrese puts the ball in the Wednesday net and the mercurial players.

Those mercurial players are, the TCs, the Sabellas, the Glynn Hodges, the Ilimans....and the Gus Hamers. They are once a decade kind of players and when you have one you do your utmost to keep them.

 

[ThatJa]

He won't go this window.