Gerard

Yes, you have to make it worth our while. Considering it's Tottenham coming for him and not Luton Town and consider we paid £15m for him we should only entertain bids of £25m+ and have a replacement in our sights like Harwood-Bellis. This after all is a hostile bid very late in the window.

Agreed and I expect that to change this Saturday when all our business has been done.

I don't know much about football outside of England but I did look at some of the super clubs for their U21 prospects and there isn't much about. Our current link of Mama Balde looks like a good choice as he done reasonably well in L1` last season and Lyon are interested, at 27yo he is a good age for us rather than some 20yo from an elite club. We don't need a future £40m player but someone who isn't wet behind the ears and can come in and do a good job now and he fits that bill as well as any. Divock Origi is still only 28 and being touted by AC Milan, I don't think he's any great shakes by any means but should be enough to get 20 goals in the Championship.

Sell, sell, sell. People are talking like Iheanacho is as vital to us as a prime Jamie Vardy. There is a timeline when we keep Iheanacho, still don't get promoted this year or next and the club will be shafted for refusing big money for players on the last year of their contracts and no parachute payments. We have to get the financials right as well as the playing first XI, Iheanacho is not going to make or break us.

Or not. You could say that to about half the teams in the PL, according to the betting markets Fulham are the 8th most likely team to get relegated and that's still an implied 17.5% chance. Only Luton and Sheff Utd are considered an implied less chance than us of being in the PL next season.

i think he stays now, a useful squad player as we're thin on the ground for No8's and there is no apparent interest and what interest there was is going to be a £3m offer or loan or other such garbage.

We had the same thing said about it not being worth selling Tielemans as being in the PL was worth much more to us than selling him, we ended up with the worst of both worlds. It's not a binary of option of keep Iheanacho = promotion and selling him = no promotion that some people try to push. Selling a mediocre PL player for £20m when he walks away for nothing in 10 months and in those ten months he'll have up to six weeks off for AFCON is a no brainer, the club have to take the money and can't afford to letting players of considerable value who cost considerable money walk away for nothing time and time again.# Iheanacho wasn't even considered first choice at the start of the season, he is very much replaceable.

AFCON is another good point. A £20m offer turned down works out as Iheanacho costing us £2m per month to keep him and that's without including his wages. Six weeks away in AFCON costs us £3m in lost revenue and God forbid he gets a bad injury at some point. He could do his ACL on Saturday and that's £20m down the pan. I'm happy to get rid of just about everybody who was involved in our tame surrender in the PL.

Talk about a strawman, no one has suggested selling the whole squad and replacing them with the academy but you. What other Championship club would turn down a £20m offer to keep a player for 90% of the season before he leaves for nothing? Iheanacho isn't that good that he's the difference between promotion or staying in the division, we are neither guaranteed to go up with him or fail to go up without him. Keeping Iheanacho should be a decision on how much the manager values him and how much the offer is. We still have Vardy and Daka or the possibility of selling Daka and bringing in someone else. Remember Iheanacho didn't even start as first choice at the start of the season so Enzo can't value him that highly.

If £20m was on the table we'd be insane not to. He's been here 6 years and never really established himself, he was terrible the first couple of years and has been good only intermittently. Soon to be 27 and he'll never be valued any higher than now in his career and for us we probably lose him in 10 months for a free. The pool of players that improves us is much larger than it was two years ago. I'm of the school of thought that we only need two No9's in the squad, Vardy is one and we'll need another. That could be Daka if Iheanacho gets sold or we move quickly this week with a big budget to get someone in with the funds Daka and Iheanacho have raised. We can't keep throwing the opportunity to collect £20m away on a player who is worth nothing to us in less than a year. It's not like Iheanacho will get 35/40 goals this season on the evidence we have seen so far.

Iheanacho may be many things but irreplaceable is not one of them. If we get an acceptable offer and have a plan to replace him it makes good sense to sell.

It's all price dependent and with the link this late in the window and it being a somewhat hostile bid seem as he's starting for us you would think Wolves would have to make it worth our while so that would probably be £15m - £20m. It's dependent on getting rid of Daka as if that doesn't materialise he'll be brought back into the fold I would have thought and Maresca would have to find a use for him. Maybe we have another striker in the pipeline? We were linked with this player this morning but as of 5 mins ago it appears he's going to Ajax

Agreed, we're selling a player who has one year left on his deal, doesn't fit the new manager's system and has been well off the boil for a couple of years. It's not a 18yo generational talent. I could name about half a dozen players that I'd be happy to get a good fee for and I don't care where they go only the fee. This isn't Barcelona selling a 21yo Messi to Real Madrid.

If I could liked that post more than once I would have.

I don't care who you are but the only objective for newly promoted sides is to stay in the division that first year. If promoted and it's a big if, we start as the cannon fodder again.

It would but if we were buying these two players we would also say paying £30m for the 26+27yo with their CV and pedigree is great business.

IIRC Tottenham bought them both at the same time and Walker was considered the makeweight. A bit when we bought Ally Mauchlen from Motherwell with Gary McAllister the makeweight.

Scenes on here when Leeds pip us to second place when Thomas has been playing like Roberto Carlos for the last 10 games of the season.

Happy to see any of the Rodgers era go with the exception of Ricardo. In their pomp Wilf, Maddison and Tielemans were arguably the best MF in the country outside of Fernandinho, Silva and De Bruyne. Ndidi doesn't have the skill set to play in any of our CM roles with Maresca so good business getting a fee for a round peg in a square hole with one year left on his deal. Good luck Wilf you were immense here in the first two years of Rodgers when you were the lone CDM and got to utilise what you were brilliant at and a great foil for the ballers in Tielemans and Maddison.

And the lad's not 20 until March, only just found out his old lad ain't just for pissing out of. It's quite surprising they've let a 19yo out on loan with an option, we had people on here worried that we sold 24yo George Hirst without a buy back option.

You have to love getting young highly talented players who have lost their way a bit on loan with an option to buy.

Seen him moaning last week about needing some match winners after being beat by Kilmarnock and just looked after your post to see this week St Johnstone have held Celtic at home. Rodgers looking done at the moment.

New manager at the helm and complete different tactics and personnel, everyone is learning on the job. This time next week all our incomings and outgoings will have been completed and the manager and the squad will know who and what we have and we'll be more settled. Brilliant start to win our first four league games after we've been drawing them all late on but popped up with 73rd, 84th, 87th and 92nd minute winners which shows some resolve and the ability to keep going and eventually break teams down. In theory we should only be getting better the more familiar we get with the players, manager and system.

Exile them and reevaluate after the window seems optimal strategy to me.