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Hitch 22

Hitch 22

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We in danger of losing Ben Pearson in the January transfer window. I regard him as our best player. How much do you all think he is worth considering Hugill may be going for 8 million plus?

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There are several of our players that we could realistically lose.

Its burying our head in the sand to think it cant happen. Ben is one of them for sure.
 
Who knows what the chaos of the January window will unleash.

All these ‘bigger’ and over funded Championship clubs are desperate to get to the Premier league. Wolves look nailed on, but that second spot is open for grabs, depends who can win consistently. That will leave a bunch of clubs panicking with some like Sheffield Wednesday, Hull and Norwich floundering already.

Plenty of clubs will be desperate for new players if they have the cash to splash, Middlesbrough especially, but Birmingham are showing that you can’t buy success by spectacularly failing.

It’s going to be interesting.
 
Hitch 22 said:
We in danger of losing Ben Pearson in the January transfer window. I regard him as our best player. How much do you all think he is worth considering Hugill may be going for 8 million plus?

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He is contracted longish term which would help the fee if it were to happen. Sincerely hope it doesn't though.
 
Panicking clubs tend to look for offensive options in the window and Pearson is one of the best defensive midfielders in the division so I'm hoping they look elsewhere.
 
If we start selling our prized assets, Alex Neil won’t hang around long. We’ve heard noises out of the club about premier league aspirations. Selling Ben Pearson would be a direct contradiction of that.

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There has been no mention of anyone looking or bidding for him.

Talk about jumping at shadows ffs.

What is the point of this thread?

Will the sky fall on our heads??????
 
sports rehab said:
NO ...

TH wont sell anyone AN wants to keep....end of...
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norky84 said:
Not true. Every player has a price we can't afford to turn down. But I think only Hugill may get such an offer in January.
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sports rehab said:
sorry if its not true... I was only repeating what Hemmings had said, I wasnt aware you knew better than him.
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norky84 said:
Where has he said this?

At the recent fans forum Peter Ridsdale said we're not looking to sell, but every player has a price.
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There will have been other factors too, such as the fact that the proper, serious bids only came late in the window so we wouldn’t have had time to replace him, but it’s true that AN’s desire to keep hold of Hugill in the summer played a big role in Hemmings’ decision to turn down £8m and the subsequent transfer request.

That situation may change though with his contract starting to run down and his refusal to renew here. I know PR said at the forum we can keep him until he’s OoC if we want, but I suspect that is more of a negotiating tactic than anything else.

IMHO there’s no way they’d waive multi-millions for a player who wants out. They didn’t even waive 600k for Bailey Wright who’s contract was running down and stated they had no choice but to cash in, so I doubt they would risk not getting £8m.

Hugill will go in January or the summer, and personally I hope if he goes next month we sign a further striker in addition to Moult to replace him.
 
kbd_pne said:
There will have been other factors too, such as the fact that the proper, serious bids only came late in the window so we wouldn’t have had time to replace him, but it’s true that AN’s desire to keep hold of Hugill in the summer played a big role in Hemmings’ decision to turn down £8m and the subsequent transfer request.

That situation may change though with his contract starting to run down and his refusal to renew here. I know PR said at the forum we can keep him until he’s OoC if we want, but I suspect that is more of a negotiating tactic than anything else.

IMHO there’s no way they’d waive multi-millions for a player who wants out. They didn’t even waive 600k for Bailey Wright who’s contract was running down and stated they had no choice but to cash in, so I doubt they would risk not getting £8m.

Hugill will go in January or the summer, and personally I hope if he goes next month we sign a further striker in addition to Moult to replace him.
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I think it is nailed on that Reading will come in for Jordan again in January. They have needed a striker since the summer and from reading reports from their recent games that is the area of the pitch they are being let down. However, I'm not convinced they will go any higher than the offer in the Summer which as you alluded to was too late in the window for us to find a suitable replacement.

I don't think Hugill will be a North End player next season, unless we win the play offs but you could argue then that we would need to sign better anyway. The next few results may indicate on whether that is a realistic possibility and if we are still in and around (which I think we will be) we will hold strong until the Summer unless something really silly came in.

Moult has not been brought into replace Hugill but like you if he does end up leaving we would need to sign another striker.
 
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I don't think Hugill will be a North End player next season, unless we win the play offs but you could argue then that we would need to sign better anyway. The next few results may indicate on whether that is a realistic possibility and if we are still in and around (which I think we will be) we will hold strong until the Summer unless something really silly came in.

Moult has not been brought into replace Hugill but like you if he does end up leaving we would need to sign another striker.
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Agreed - my feeling is that Hugill will go next summer unless we either receive a silly money offer in January or reach the Premiership. We do, of course, already have that 'other striker' - Maguire, who has shown he can lead the line.
 
ernest said:
Agreed - my feeling is that Hugill will go next summer unless we either receive a silly money offer in January or reach the Premiership. We do, of course, already have that 'other striker' - Maguire, who has shown he can lead the line.
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Maguire's done well for us but I think we can infer from his first few months here that Neil doesn't have any intention of using him regularly in a lone, no.9 striking role, as he clearly prefers someone of physical stature to play there, hence playing Hugill every game and signing Louis Moult who is 6ft tall.
 
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sedgwick__7 said:
Maguire done well for us but I think we can infer from his first few months here that Neil doesn't have any intention of using him regularly in a lone, no.9 striking role, as he clearly prefers someone of physical stature to play there, hence playing Hugill every game and signing Louis Moult who is 6ft tall.
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Very likely the case. If we do sign this fellow Moult and Hugill stays it might be best for Mavididi if we send him back.
 
Pearson doesn't score enough goals or setup enough goals for teams to be interested in him yet, when clubs are chucking money around for midfielders they are wanting Premiership rejects or players who score goals and set them up like Lansbury or Hourihane.

Pearson I think will always be under the radar for a lot of clubs because his style will never turn him into a "big name" player, you don't hear pundits raving about him which attracts the money clubs attention.

I think we operate in a real niche with our transfer policy.
 
In reality he Hugill hasn't set the world alight this season, he's worked hard, he's scored a few, but he's looked pretty ordinary at times too, but maybe the offers won't come in, all interesting stuff.
 
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