Best Of

All the Dan Rice haters will be loving him or should be loving him if we keep Kone. We would definitely have taken the second bid by now with the old owners.

I know we all want it resolved but I would prefer to get the right man rather than just acting quickly. However, if we can achieve both, then fine.

I think if we get an offer in excess of £7.5m plus add-ons we might well be tempted, but I do think the calculation is going to be as follows:

a) Keep Kone in the hope that he helps us to one of the automatic promotion spots, thus guaranteeing us an additional income next year of the increased TV money (c£7.5m) plus increased commercial & match day revenues (my guess is a minimum of £2.5m)

vs

b) money now & possibly in the future from selling Kone but reduced chance of making it to the Championship

I know what I would prefer not only as a fan but with my business hat on.

That'll be swiftly rejected then

He'll still be worth as much in the summer, maybe more if we go up

Either of these names would be massive appointments for us. A real statement of intent.

Just can’t see where we would find a 20-25 goal replacement striker at this stage of the window. What would be the point of strengthening the team for promotion and then letting your top striker go. It just wouldn’t make any sense. We don’t need the money, although that’s incredible to say.

Of all the names mentioned on this thread I would love to see Schumacher or Carsley, I think the likelihood of the former is sadly receeding; but am keeping fingers crossed for the latter.

I think Sam Grace is fine to steady the ship short term but it really isn't ideal longer term for the reasons so many other posters have mentioned.

I think we've got to show more ambition than that

That might not be much more than a sideways move at the moment, and I doubt they'd offer enough anyway. Not too worried about this one.