Benteke to Liverpool.. Charlie Austin to Villa??

[Tarbie]

Personally I think we should take a risk. Keep him until the end of next season, if we go up then sweet offer him another contract. If we don't go up then we've lost out on £15mil,

Only problem with that plan is he becomes free to speak to other clubs 6 months before the contract expires. Yes, he'd probably see out the season with us but there would be nothing stopping perspective clubs putting contracts his way from January onwards. Unless we are romping the league (which I can't see) we would probably lose him for nothing whatever the outcome.

[COOPERPD]

That is a fair point. It's got to be worth the risk though.. Surely???

[Tarbie]

That is a fair point. It's got to be worth the risk though.. Surely???

If it gets us promoted then yeah, for sure. 15m quid (if we can get that) is a lot of money in our current situation though!

[Scott Jones]

15million cash will do nicely thanks.

Gives us some lovely funds to replace him and some to pay off debt / FFP