All this suggests that we're doing the right thing in focussing on facilities and the academy, such that we can develop our own talent: you make a good case for sticking with Chicksen in this post. But, as the old cliches get trotted out about the England squad at the moment, "you don't win...
Top post. Although there may well be a twist, which is the entrance of a fourth (fifth, sixth, ...) party, aka another club willing to match or go beyond his demands.If so, we just need to live with it.
This is the key point. He's only on £13k for another year. We should play hard ball and offer him something like £10k on a three year contract. If some other club step in with something higher and he'd prefer to go there, then so be it. If we do sign him on a three-year deal, then we're...