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Obviously a lot depends on our owner`s attitude to selling any player assets compared to the progress of the team.Also any uncertain advantages of signing cheaper hopefully but uncertainly successful replacements.

SS is both a businessman and clearly a devoted Seasider.The conundrum is how he balances profit and loss against the progress of his team.The ultimate achievement would be to succeed in both areas but going forward how far is he prepared to gamble financially to achieve the dream for the Tangerines and how shrewd his decisions balancing the one against the other turn out to be.Many have attempted to do this but not too many have successfully come out the other end.

We of course have vested hopes that our man succeeds and certainly on the pitch after an early struggle things are now going very well. Long may that continue together with shrewd financial decisions to keep our club on a sound financial footing whatever they need to be. We as fans never like to see our more successful players move on but sometimes in the long run if the decisions are shrewd they can turn out to be for the greater good.

We will watch as these things unfold with great hope in our hearts but naturally combined with a little apprehension too.
 
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As soon as someone comes good this is what we do. Let’s talk about it after next season. Kaikai scored a decent goal yesterday I guess that’s him playing for Barcelona too.
 
No problem selling players on as long as we get what we think they are worth,no more selling on the cheap,and then reinvest in 1 or 2 more that will make us stronger ,if we use this model then hopefully we can be sucsessful,and get to where we want to be
 
I genuinely think that other clubs have identified Yates as a player they can get at a cut price because it's Blackpool. Historically, we've often let our players go for less than the market price - for obvious ownership reasons. Hoolahan leaving for £250k was scandalous (yes I know there was a release clause, it should never have been so low), Ormerod went for £1.75m but Zamora went for £5m at around the same time when they'd both scored a similar number of goals in the same league. So we're seen as a soft touch, and a club that only offers short term contracts.
Back under the previous regime, we had to insert release clauses into players' contracts to get them to sign. Now we should be able to get them to sign as an ambitious, well run club where you can develop.
We need to shake off that soft touch, cut price tag. If you want a striker that is one of the top scorers in league one (in a team that generally doesn't score many), and that has three years left on his contract, you're going to have to pay the going rate. Ivan Toney is a really good comparison, similar age, similar goal-scoring record and went to a championship club for initial £5m, plus add-ons up to £10m. We should be looking at £5m as an absolute minimum. Let's stop selling ourselves short - this new club philosophy of developing youngsters and selling them on will only work if we insist on a true market value. We're not a yard sale, if you want one of our best players, get your cheque book out and we'll tell you what we want for him based on the market and what we've spent developing him.
 
It wouldn't make sense going to Blackburn, Forrest, Bristol City and Gerrard wants him at Rangers. He's best staying put to see where Critch is going to take this side. If we get to the Championship and the ambition and quality of players we have and how far we have come in a season then their is no reason why we can't go further. Onward and upward UTMP!
 
Yates is our Vardy why would we want to sell him to anyone less than a Premier Club. ?
If he is treated well, given a good salary ,he may well help us on our next trip of a lifetime.
He has most of the tools and no doubt will improve ,he certainly will improve knowing he,s our new head man
 
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Peterborough have sold on players for much more than £2m. If he gets 25+ goals he has got to be worth at least £5m, plus a sell on, particularly as we have him on contract for 3 further years. We have sold too many players, with the Os buying cheap and selling cheap
 
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Peterborough have sold on players for much more than £2m. If he gets 25+ goals he has got to be worth at least £5m, plus a sell on, particularly as we have him on contract for 3 further years. We have sold too many players, with the Os buying cheap and selling cheap
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We're not Peterboro though.

If we get promoted this season there is no way he will go anywhere. I would be more worried if we don't.
 
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It's all very well selling players on and making money off them, but look at Peterborough, they have a long list of players they have bought and sold on for profit
Mackail-Smith
Aaron McClean
Dwight Gayle
Britt Assombalonga
Ivan Tony
To name a few.
They have made over 50 million profit because of this dealing, but they are still a division 1 club.
I suppose it boils down to what's more important, money in the bank or league position.
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Great quote, just as Peterborough are on the verge of promotion to the championship 😁
 
No club in our position being run in an optimum fashion would sell Yates in the short term. It would make no sense, unless you want the cash for a new car, mansion near Lancaster, or wooly mammoth skeleton. I doubt these are on SS's list.
 
If Yates is sold on for a big profit I'm sure our scouting setup will have more than adequate replacements lined up. That is what Simon Sadler has put them in place to do. He won't sell progress on the field short for the sake of back pocket money like the last regime.
 
A lot will have to do with what league we're in next year, but regardless of how this situation ends, it'll be a positive outcome for us because...

1) For us to sell we'd have to still be in League 1 and Yates has only signed for us last Summer on a 3+1 deal so this July he'll still have 2+1 years remaining which will mean that any club bidding for him will have to pay twice his actual value which I think would be around 4,000,000 which is a sizeable fee which I have no doubt will be immediately reinvested.

That type of money could easily bring in 2-3 quality League 1 Players that will overall increase the quality of the side greatly.

2) If he stays which I think is likely, because he's only just moved here and a move to a club like NFFC so soon really isn't that big of a jump as it might seem, then we will have a quality player to lead the line going into next season. He also said after Gillingham (which was after the reports started coming out that there was interest) that he needed to work on his heading for next season with us.

Long story short; there's no need to worry about this situation, because we have all the power and the owner to make this an incredibly beneficial outcome for us.
 
Jezza looks mega happy to me.

He wouldn’t push for a move unless mega offer

When we get into the ground he will realise how much he is loved and is the sort of lad who will really buzz off it.

A move at the end of this season would be way too soon for him
 
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