Why do we sell players for such small amounts?

[Burr]

Does anyone have any idea why we ALWAYS seem to sell our players (good or bad) for such small amounts of money? If Woozley does indeed leave the club for 50K, that will be a joke. He is a young and non-too-shabby player with plenty of first team experience in the 1st Division. He shouldn't be sold at all, but if we did have to part with him you would at least think we could get a couple of hundred thousand instead of pittance! McKenzie has gone now. You can bet that we got only a fraction of what he is worth. Despite his many flaws he is still a useful squad player in this division, he is young and does seem to give his all for the cause. Such attributes would usually cost a team £500,000 - I have heard we might get a tenth of that.

Fair enough, sometimes we get rid of players on the cheap because no one else really wants them/they are on high wages, but at other times we just don't seem to be able to play the transfer game very effectively.

Along the same lines we ALWAYS seem to buy players for much more than they are worth. The clubs we deal with must see us coming. Remember Svensson? He may have come good for us, but we really should have picked him up at half the price given his record at other clubs, but nooooo. Valerian Ismael? £2.75 million? Only at the Palace. The list could go on and on and on and on... It's quite sad actually.

Neil/Alan - I don't suppose you could do a little list could you? I'm sure it's depressing reading.

[Neil the Eagle]

No - some of us are have these things called jobs you know http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/wink.gif

[Adrian]

This is a good point and must have been noticed by many of us over the years. Even when John Jackson went (to Ipswich?) it was for a mere £20k which, even then, was way below his worth - particularly as keepers generally have a longer playing life than outfield players.

On this occasion, it just smacks of indecent haste - desperation, even - to cleanse the club of pre-Jordan/Smith staff: I’m sure I’ll be accused of paranoia here - maybe rightly - it’s just that I am beginning to feel this unnerving sense
of the surreal returning...... http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/confused.gif

[rashid]

If we are going to carry on selling players at stupidly low prices, why don't we stick in a sell on clause. At least that way we can share in the rewards if the young players we have nurtured go on to reach their full potential. Does my head in!

[Psychokiller]

The last two promising young players to be given away to Bournemouth were Jamie Vincent and Ian Cox, at a combined price of about £90,000. They both moved to other clubs at a combined price of about £1.5M!

What's the betting Woozley is sold for say £500K in 2/3 years?

[Tony Humphreys]

I was going to pose the question myself, particularly in the light of the price quoted for Woozley. After all, we agreed a million with extras for two Arsenal reserves, who Arsenal clearly didn't want (however good they are). I would have thought £50K was a good price for Woozley from the BUYER's point of view; it's hardly our fault if Bournemouth can't afford it - they've done well enough out of us in the past.