Harry to Everton

[1danewhitehouse]

I know he was good, that's not the point, if he hadn't been good he wouldn't have been bought by Hull. My point is that what we got for him was good money for a L1 centre half, at that time. He'd played one game in the championship, he wasn't proven. His potential wasn't as raw as DCL's but we still got more for him than we got for Adams, who'd played quite a lot of games for us and scored a few goals. In an era when transfer fees rise yearly.

Player valuation is highly subjective and it annoys me when people claim we sell our players on the cheap because generally we don't. If there's one thing KM does know about, it's money.

Agree it's subjective but it was a sale under duress. Hull didn't meet our valuation. By all accounts we went back and accepted an offer we'd previously rejected because the player stamped his feet. I'd say therefore the club probably didn't consider it a particularly good sum. Put it this way, I would much rather have had Harry Maguire than £2million in the transfer kitty.

 

[BushBlade]

Agree it's subjective but it was a sale under duress. Hull didn't meet our valuation. By all accounts we went back and accepted an offer we'd previously rejected because the player stamped his feet. I'd say therefore the club probably didn't consider it a particularly good sum. Put it this way, I would much rather have had Harry Maguire than £2million in the transfer kitty.

So would I. I was gutted when he left, he was such a big character and would have been a great captain for us. If the rumours about certain players telling him he should go are true, then Clough was right in the way he subsequently treated them. If anything, too soft.

 

[Revolution]

I know he was good, that's not the point, if he hadn't been good he wouldn't have been bought by Hull. My point is that what we got for him was good money for a L1 centre half, at that time. He'd played one game in the championship, he wasn't proven. His potential wasn't as raw as DCL's but we still got more for him than we got for Adams, who'd played quite a lot of games for us and scored a few goals. In an era when transfer fees rise yearly.

Player valuation is highly subjective and it annoys me when people claim we sell our players on the cheap because generally we don't. If there's one thing KM does know about, it's money.

That transfer is a textbook example of how not to deal with the sale of your best player for a number of reasons. One of the main ones - know who you're going to replace him with.

Having fallen out with Collins and Butler, Clough replaced him with a bunch of full backs and Paddy McCarthy. That went well.