23-05-2021, 04:10 PM
(23-05-2021, 01:58 PM)BigSmokeBlue Wrote: We may think Curtis is worth is £2-3m. However, rumours are we have accepted £1.5m from as yet an unnamed Championship club in a cut price deal.
Pre-covid we might have got 2-3m for Curtis. Now, I'll be very surprised if anyone pays more than 1.5m. The world has changed financially for football and too many fans seem to expect everything to carry on as it was before. It won't except in the premiership.
From Curtis's perspective it is the right time to move on and test himself at a higher level, and fair do's to him he would have stayed here had we got promotion.
It's going to be a completely new team for us next season, with all of our better rated players moved on. But the fact remains those players had their chances here and have under-achieved so it's time for a fresh start.
I'll still be disappointed when Whatmough goes though ... as fans we invested a lot of emotional energy in his recoveries and I must admit I thought the risk of injury would stop anyone taking him on and he would stay here and become captain and a one-club stalwart, but that does not look likely now.