So your argument is that the people who run our club are morons who aren't capable of properly valuing our players and/or negotiating a deal?
I mean that might be true. If they accept one million for Dickie in June or July, it definitely is true.
It's all very well saying "We're poor, we're desperate, we'll take any offer that comes along". But if Burnley, Southampton & Leeds are all interested in Dickie, and we don't use that level of interest to bump up the price to Matthew Clarke levels, then Tiger & co. may as well organise a big party at the Kasstad and set fire to millions of pounds. It would be just as economically wasteful.
If August comes round, and that level of interest in Dickie isn't there......then we might be justified in selling at a cheaper price.
But I doubt it - there's not many defenders of his age and quality that are going to be on the market this summer.