captainox
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Following on from the player watching of our ex-Yellows, affter the DE takeover and subsequent seasons under the model of ‘buy cheap talent, make it better, sell for more, we’ve sold the following players for the approximate sums (others departed such as Chey Dunkley and Curtis Nelson who went up a division but on frees. Canice Carroll, Cameron Norman, Kane Hemmings and Liam Sercombe all left for free, but I’m looking at the notable £500k+ sales).
Whilst we all chuntered that Baptiste was worth more and the like, with talk of our of our former players recently it does make me wonder how many of those would be commanding the same fee now? Is anyone going to bid £2m to buy Gavin Whyte in 2020 or stump up £2.5m for Johnson? Ledson and O’Dowda haven’t kicked on as well as they should have either. It makes you think that we 1. Made good business at the right time 2. Did a far better job of developing players than the club they went on to.
- Kemar Roofe to Leeds United for £3m
- Callum O’Dowda to Bristol City for £1m (+add ons)
- John Lundstram to Sheffield United for £700k
- Marvin Johnson to Middlesbrough for £2.5m
- Ryan Ledson to Preston North End for £500k (best estimate)
- Joe Rothwell to Blackburn Rovers for £150k (best estimate)
- Gavin Whyte to Cardiff City for £2m
- Shandon Baptiste to Brentford £2.25m
- Tariq Fosu to Brentford for £750k
Not all fall in that category though. Roofe is having a successful if a bit weird career in Belgium, Lunny has taken to PL life rather well and Rothwell appears for Blackburn regularly.
It does look like the Lunny and Rothwell fees are the ones we should have been fuming about. (Hindsight ey?!)