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Don't forget how easy it is to spend someone else's money though! Not to mention that £4m - either reinvested in players or used to reduce losses - can easily be funded by every single season ticket holder, including OAPs and kids, chucking in £200.

Relax, it's in your NSC user profile ;-)

Marshy's not a professional scout; he's an IT geek. I would expect that the people that are paid by the club to do this have a long list of potential replacements from all over Europe, for whom they could probably pay the transfer fee and wages for 4 years for £4m.

I've not seen enough of Baldock to make any sort of judgement on his value - 21 appearances last season, most of which were out of position. However, I have seen enough of Rohan Ince's aerial ability over the past 2 seasons to know that he is a far far better defensive midfielder than he ever...

Does the fact that he's not particularly special come into any of these valuations? 3rd choice centre back at the end of last season, behind Greer and Halford.

Maybe their scouting network doesn't stretch beyond England's top 2 divisions? Fulham spunked £10m on Ross McCormack this time last year. Meanwhile, Bournmouth spent around a 5th of that on Callum Wilson.

5m can buy a lot of talent. And the last thing we need when trying to sign promising players, like the Iranian bloke, is a reputation for holding players' careers back. As for the the Amex, it has had over 2 million football fans go through the turnstiles in only 4 years, as well as the...

I suppose it's about as fair as us selling Virgo to Celtic for 1.5m and then buying Kayal for 300k.

Almost certainly nothing to do with house prices. Not only do Championship players earn a very good wage, but houses are not a depreciating asset. A player could buy a £1m house when he signs and be reasonably confident that at the end of his 3-4 year contract that same house can be sold for...

Yes that's right, he's put over 200m of his own money into the club, with ongoing annual losses in the millions, just so that he can build a hotel that might make 2-3m profit per year. Good business plan.

Hughes and Upson were both our players under contract.

So you're saying that, to replace Dunk, we'd need to find a slow, one footed centre half that's prone to lapses in concentration? Reckon we could do that for 1m.

And, hopefully, our recruitment and scouting stretches further than the opposition we play in our league.

Thankfully, you're not in the club recruitment team.

We recently paid only 300K for a far better player than Dunk.

How do you know what we'll sell for? Since Barber has been around, we've negiotiated very good fees for all players sold. It's not his fault that the recruitment team have been mainly crap at their job - with the purchase of Kayal being the notable exception.

Why does it matter who we sell him to as long as they pay a million or 2 over the odds? Dunk is a good Championship defender, nothing more. He's certainly not irreplaceable.