Redtaz2 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 As interest appears to be gathering regarding him do we cash in and try to get an appropriate replacement , McGrath ? keep him for this season and have him leave for nowt , I would prefer he signed a new contract but that appears very unlikely Link to comment
Ke1t Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, Redtaz2 said: As interest appears to be gathering regarding him do we cash in and try to get an appropriate replacement , McGrath ? keep him for this season and have him leave for nowt , I would prefer he signed a new contract but that appears very unlikely We should sell any player who's going to bring in decent money. Being skint sucked. 1 Link to comment
jamiesd Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Like Hedges but he is one footed and easily replaced. Cash in while we have interest. Unlucky with injury and probably misses Wright a wee bitty so if a decent wedge gets offered take it and reinvest. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I still struggle to believe a club will want to part with over £500k for Hedges. Link to comment
afc1903mad Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Tord31 said: I still struggle to believe a club will want to part with over £500k for Hedges. £500k is just not worth letting him go in terms of impacting our league positioning come the season end. It needs to be £1M and I'd not be opposed to him signing an extension with a £1M buy-out condition in it He's 26, came here for nothing to get a career boost, we either keep him for the duration of his contract or let him go for the million 3 Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Just now, afc1903mad said: £500k is just not worth letting him go in terms of impacting our league positioning come the season end. It needs to be £1M and I'd not be opposed to him signing an extension with a £1M buy-out condition in it He's 26, came here for nothing to get a career boost, we either keep him for the duration of his contract or let him go for the million I would not accept £500k either. I'm just simply saying I don't believe any club would bid over that at this moment in time for Hedges. Let's see if I get proven wrong. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 This is a delicate one. One of our best players but unlikely to command a huge fee due to the length of contract left. Depends very much on whether a suitable replacement is lined up. There's nothing in the squad currently that you'd fancy to fill a Hedges shaped hole. A player like Hedges could be the difference between progressing in cups or not so sometimes it's worth more to the club to keep him than lose him at the wrong time for a few hundred grand. Link to comment
afc1903mad Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Tord31 said: I would not accept £500k either. I'm just simply saying I don't believe any club would bid over that at this moment in time for Hedges. Let's see if I get proven wrong. You're probably right, but did the likes of Middlesborough not just pay £1M for Uche Ikpeazu, so you never know with the market in the championship Link to comment
WesthillWanderersFC Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 No asset worth a chunky fee should be allowed to leave for nothing, regardless of who they are. Link to comment
Torry Tosser Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Maybe he disna want to go anywhere.? Link to comment
Torry Tosser Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 50 minutes ago, Ke1t said: We should sell any player who's going to bring in decent money. Being skint sucked. Are you a director? Another one more worried what goes on in the boardroom than building a team.. Link to comment
redstrummer Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 We'd be awfully light on attacking options if we lost Hedges . The squad at the moment needs another striker and an attacking player . Keep him 1 Link to comment
sooth_stander Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Sell him if the fee is £1m plus, but only if we have an agreement to bring in a replacement first, THEN he can go. Still over 3 weeks of the window to go, Blackburn or whoever can hang on. Link to comment
Redtaz2 Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 I would be pleased with that but with him not committing to an extension or new deal it appears he will leave 20 minutes ago, Torry Tosser said: Maybe he disna want to go anywhere.? I would be pleased with that but as he hasn’t committed to an extension or new deal then I suspect he is away Link to comment
Andy_123 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Depends on the offer. If we get a decent amount of money for him and we can go out and sign a decent replacement, then I would deal. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 30 minutes ago, Torry Tosser said: Are you a director? Another one more worried what goes on in the boardroom than building a team.. The folk that want us to bend over and accept a few hundred grand from Blackburn just so he doesn't leave for nothing will be the same ones that moan like fuck when Kennedy or McLennan aren't good enough to take his place and the results suffer. 4 Link to comment
Ten Caat Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I would suspect the club know by now whether or not he is likely to sign a contract extension. And as there has been no word of him doing so you have to assume that he isn't going to (or is "keeping his options open") I agree that under these circumstances, selling him in order to fund a replacement of a decent quality is probably the best option. The problem is, with only 10 months left on his contract, it's really doubtful we will get an offer that matches our "true" valuation of him. I'd be amazed if any offer that comes in is for more than £500k. In that instance, ordinarily I'd say that we are as well keeping him until the end of his contract. But in doing so, we might end up with an unsettled, unhappy player. Remember how he was in his first season with us. He could barely get a game by the time the second half of that season came round. His form could dip to those levels yet again. And who knows how much effort he would put in if he signs a pre-contract with someone in January? All things considered, I'd probably take a bid of £500k, but insist on a few performance based (and achieveable) bonus payments within the terms of the sale, plus a 15-20% sell on fee. But also stipulate that it has to happen with no less than 7 days to go until the window closes. Any later and we keep him till next summer. Then get Mr Mowbray working overtime to find us a replacement within our budget before the transfer window closes 1 Link to comment
davieb Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I'd be offering him an extension to his contract with a guaranteed sell clause. Don't think we'll get much for 500k at the moment. Link to comment
aberdeen1970 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 The question inside the club needs to be what is the net result for the team? If we're getting 300k and end up with a lesser replacement then get to fuck. If we're getting £1m and we can replace Hedges and get another player to improve the first team then we might be able to talk. 1 Link to comment
redstrummer Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 35 minutes ago, Ten Caat said: I would suspect the club know by now whether or not he is likely to sign a contract extension. And as there has been no word of him doing so you have to assume that he isn't going to (or is "keeping his options open") I agree that under these circumstances, selling him in order to fund a replacement of a decent quality is probably the best option. The problem is, with only 10 months left on his contract, it's really doubtful we will get an offer that matches our "true" valuation of him. I'd be amazed if any offer that comes in is for more than £500k. In that instance, ordinarily I'd say that we are as well keeping him until the end of his contract. But in doing so, we might end up with an unsettled, unhappy player. Remember how he was in his first season with us. He could barely get a game by the time the second half of that season came round. His form could dip to those levels yet again. And who knows how much effort he would put in if he signs a pre-contract with someone in January? All things considered, I'd probably take a bid of £500k, but insist on a few performance based (and achieveable) bonus payments within the terms of the sale, plus a 15-20% sell on fee. But also stipulate that it has to happen with no less than 7 days to go until the window closes. Any later and we keep him till next summer. Then get Mr Mowbray working overtime to find us a replacement within our budget before the transfer window closes yer in the wrong job min 1 1 Link to comment
BonnieDon Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Do a Jonny Hayes type deal. Offer Hedges a new deal with the promise to sell him. Link to comment
Betty Swallicks Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Tord31 said: I still struggle to believe a club will want to part with over £500k for Hedges. Really? Some Belgian lot have apparenently offered 500k for Shankland who has the same time on his contract as Hedges and is the same age. Hedges is a far better player and his stock is going in the opposite direction to Shanklands. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, afc1903mad said: You're probably right, but did the likes of Middlesborough not just pay £1M for Uche Ikpeazu, so you never know with the market in the championship What did they give us for Lee Miller? £600k or something wasn’t it? & he had little left on his contract Link to comment
North_Andy_Dandy Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 I’d like him to stay but with all this interest and his contact being up at the end of the season it all looks like a familiar situation. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 He was on fringes of a decent Wales squad & only injury kept him out it seems just when he was hitting form. £500k would be terrible business by us if we let him go for that. Even if we did get him for nothing. That would be like doing a straight swap with him for McGrath in terms of value & not sure even that would be a great deal in all honesty Link to comment
thurso Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 If st mirren want big money for McGrath we should be asking for crazy money for hedges, hedges is a better player I’d say 1 Link to comment
Ke1t Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Hedges is a Welsh International. I'd like to think he'd command a 7 figure fee, if someone's thinking about buying him while he's under contract. I did say we should be selling for decent fees, not derisory ones. If someone comes in with half a million for our Welsh International I think they should be told to suck a cock... literally told that. Suck a cock. With an accompanying press release that says, Aberdeen have told (English Team) to suck a cock over their derisory offer for Welsh internationalist, Ryan Hedges. Link to comment
Tord31 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Betty Swallicks said: Really? Some Belgian lot have apparenently offered 500k for Shankland who has the same time on his contract as Hedges and is the same age. Hedges is a far better player and his stock is going in the opposite direction to Shanklands. I want to be proven wrong. Bring on the £1m bids. Link to comment
Dynamo Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Would hope we weren't in a rush to sell him. We went 8 games without a goal when he was injured not so long ago, and didn't look anything like as threatening vs United as against Hacken (h). Link to comment
Hoofball Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Would rather he signed a new contract but if he wants out sell, fed up of losing decent players for nothing. I’d even take 500k if that 500k got Glass a player he really wanted be that an attacker or defender. Link to comment
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