The one good thing about Goldson going to Rangers is that he will get European football in due course, the Gerrard bandwagon means he'll get exposure and players that have done well in Scotland can be sold to the Prem for a decent wedge, so more chance of a decent sell-on fee than if - say - he...
You've misquoted me. I didn't say it never happens. I said you don't "normally" get that quality for £3.5 million, especially when the player has been in a successful side at the top of the Championship / in the Prem.
Anyway, when we came calling for Duffy he had a year left on his contract...
Duffy failed to make the grade at Everton, then spent 55 matches at Yeovil and Scunthorpe, then languished in the bottom half of the table with Blackburn, then left in the season they were relegated. And he still cost us £4 mill.
Goldson, meanwhile, formed a formidable partnership with Dunk...
There's no harm done if we sell Goldson for £3.5 mill and buy McNair for, say £5 mill.
What worries me is that having agreed a £3.5 mill fee (of which Shrewsbury will get a chunk) we have the likes of Reading insisting Liam Moore is worth £15 mill. I'd rather have McNair than Moore in a...
Having names in the frame keeps everyone on their toes - McNair, Goldson, Liam Moore, Konsa. If nothing else it shows Rangers how much real players cost outside of the Mickey Mouse SPL.