Should we worry about losing Leon ?

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Leon has never ever shown an inclination to get lost. I think Wilder managed to misplace him on that promotion bus trip for a 30 minute spell but Knilly found him again. No worries unless Wilder picks him up and drops him.
 



Tell ya what I’m not worried about losing any of them. Before Wilder took them on they were a bunch of underachievers, I count Fleck in that too.

Wilder has taken them and made them into Winners they owe him and you can tell they know it. Not a whisper of any contract disputes or anyone wanting a move. Like kids fighting for Dads attention only trying to impress (in a good way). Only way anyone is going anywhere is if a silly bollocks offer comes in for them and right now we only have one of those players and he’s not even getting in the starting 11.
 
DronnieBlade said:
But some times the lure of the dollar, both from a club and player perspective is too
If, for example Villa were to come in with say £2m +, and Leon fancied finishing his career in the area he was born, do you think we should hold him back ? What good would that do ?
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I think selling him to Villa would be holding him back, in the footballing sense at least. I really think the best place for him to take his career as far as possible is here.
£2m for a 20+ goal striker in the championship (as it's looking), even one Clarke's age, is too small. Unless by the '+' what you actually mean is significantly more than £2m.

To be honest though i think his value comes from his specific situation at this football club. His role, team mates, style of playing etc. I'm not convinced it would necessarily translate to other teams. You could then argue this is why he's 'only' worth £2m and not more, but then as long as other teams recognise that they're less likely to be interested. So they under bid for him, which means it's not worth our while to sell him.

Either way it ends up he's better off here.

Of course he may really want to go play for a team where he's from, and i dont know him so its possible, but i doubt it. Sheffield isn't that far away from the midlands.
 
Snowman said:
Leon has never ever shown an inclination to get lost. I think Wilder managed to misplace him on that promotion bus trip for a 30 minute spell but Knilly found him again. No worries unless Wilder picks him up and drops him.
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To be fair he managed to get lost on way to Bramall Lane for the team photo
 
Losing Leon?

no your thinking of that other fella who's name I've forgotten - the one with the agent where they couldn't decide between them whether he was at Sheffield Rail Station or not.
 
With his age, injury record and CV, which is not overly impressive, United would struggle to get 250k for Leon. That's why he's not going anywhere. Even United can turn their noses up at a piffling amount like this.
 
snootyfenooty said:
With his age, injury record and CV, which is not overly impressive, United would struggle to get 250k for Leon. That's why he's not going anywhere. Even United can turn their noses up at a piffling amount like this.
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This is True but any contract clause is also likely to be low and could scupper this thinking :(
 
Quite frankly, I'm much more worried that clubs with financial muscle will have taken a long hard look at us and come to the conclusion that they should put in a bid of around £100 million to buy the whole team. Let's be honest, it would solve Everton's problems!
I don't know how I manage to sleep nights......
 



I suspect CW will ask him if he wants to go. Even if he pauses for a few seconds, CW will show him the door as he has said he doesn't want players who don't want to be at BL. Clarke will stay, at least to the end of the season.
 
Bayingblade said:
Why are so called followers of Sheffield United so determined to sell our players at the merest hint that they are quite good?:rolleyes:
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Oh I don't think for a moment that the fans want to see Leon sold .......... but then again we didn't want to see Deano sold, or Jan Fjortoft or many others from a very loooooong list over the years o_O

The BIG question is ...... will this January be different to previous transfer windows ....... :rolleyes:;)

UTB & FTP
 
Darthblade said:
Oh I don't think for a moment that the fans want to see Leon sold .......... but then again we didn't want to see Deano sold, or Jan Fjortoft or many others from a very loooooong list over the years o_O

The BIG question is ...... will this January be different to previous transfer windows ....... :rolleyes:;)

UTB & FTP
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We must be the only set of fans in the league who speculate on who we are going to sell rather than who we are going to buy.
 
Isn’t this transfer window the one where Jim Phipps informed us we would be able to ‘flex’ a little bit more?
 
Hes the top scorer in the championship. You would expect top championship clubs, bottom end premier league to at least have a look. Would he go? If its more money and a better deal then quite possibly. It always makes me laugh how a lot of people respond "He's going nowhere" and such based on absolutely nothing.
 
blademark said:
I was just thinking that before the season stated, even several games into it, not many would have predicted him being top scorer going into December.
He's doing so well, and looking like a very accomplished striker just now, I'm almost a bit embarrassed to never having seen the possibility before.
Here's my point. It will not have escaped the attention of any championship or premier league club, and some will doubtless be casting admiring glances his way. I can think of Everton off the top of my head who might see him as a short term fix ? There will be others I'm sure, so should we be worried ? I mean he really is our top striker right now.
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Leon for DCL gerrumswappedwilder.
 
I don't want Leon to be sold as I think he'd be better off staying here in terms of a footballing perspective, but if a bid were to come in for him I think we should seriously consider it - as long as it's not a derisory bid (despite ironically being what he's probably worth) because then I don't think it's worth us losing such an inform striker that's been banging them in for fun for peanuts. But let's say a bid was lodged for something like £1 - £2 million then I would prefer us to accept the offer so we can re-invest it for another striker or another position elsewhere, yes we can't exactly be desperate for a couple of million but at the same time we've still got one of the lower budgets in this league especially when you take away the Maguire and Walker add ons received in the summer.

Of course it's not guaranteed that Leon's replacement would be just as prolific, nor would the fee received for him be anywhere near enough to buy a goalscorer these days - but with CW's knack of being able to unearth a gem/get value for money then I'd rather go down this path to be honest. So if you think about it, we don't know if Leon will continue his form for the whole of this season and he has no re-sale value - so if he keeps this up all the way into the JTW and another club does decide to submit an offer within the region stated above then I think we should snap their hand off, albeit it's an unlikely scenario to happen anyway and we don't really need to sell him. But all I'm saying is why not cash in during a period where he's in peak form?
 



Danny_Blade said:
I don't want Leon to be sold as I think he'd be better off staying here in terms of a footballing perspective, but if a bid were to come in for him I think we should seriously consider it - as long as it's not a derisory bid (despite ironically being what he's probably worth) because then I don't think it's worth us losing such an inform striker that's been banging them in for fun for peanuts. But let's say a bid was lodged for something like £1 - £2 million then I would prefer us to accept the offer so we can re-invest it for another striker or another position elsewhere, yes we can't exactly be desperate for a couple of million but at the same time we've still got one of the lower budgets in this league especially when you take away the Maguire and Walker add ons received in the summer.

Of course it's not guaranteed that Leon's replacement would be just as prolific, nor would the fee received for him be anywhere near enough to buy a goalscorer these days - but with CW's knack of being able to unearth a gem/get value for money then I'd rather go down this path to be honest. So if you think about it, we don't know if Leon will continue his form for the whole of this season and he has no re-sale value - so if he keeps this up all the way into the JTW and another club does decide to submit an offer within the region stated above I think we should snap their hand off, albeit it's an unlikely scenario to happen anyway and we don't really need to sell him. But all I'm saying is why not cash in during a period where he's in peak form?
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Because we'd be strengthening a rival. Unless Clarke is desperate to go there's no way we should be selling him to Villa.
 
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