andrew1957 Well I for one am still fuming about this.
some of you seem to think £6M is a good fee but you are bonkers IMO. Siggy was the one truly PL class player that we have in the squad. The sort of player that will most likely go for £20M plus sooner or later. He is the sort of player that could just have fired us to the PL in what is an extremely tight division.
I have supported the club through thick and thin but this is utter madness.
I agree to an extent... the guy's got serious class, he's young and his breakthrough season was incredible. Not sure you can say he will most likely go for 20 million one day - but I certainly wouldn't rule it out either. The truth is the way things are right now a bid of 4-6 million was always going to be accepted... doesn't mean I have to like it though.
Secondly, it's a shame that of all the players we could have sold not only does he have probably the most ability and the most potential but he also wanted to stay.
It would have been better for us to have lost Kebe or McAnuff IMHO because now the Sig is gone I can see that these two could get itchy feet and if we lost a winger we at least have Antonio plus a few of the youngsters like HRK, Bignall, Taylor etc that can sit on the bench. The Sig I would suggest to be irreplaceable and the only player that it might have been worth saying no thanks we want to hold onto him.
But as has been said if no money is coming from other sources then it has to come from somewhere else and we could do with strengthening the squad.
But I reckon BM will really be unhappy to see Gylfi go so soon after saying he was happy to stay on board, SJM on the other hand will no doubt be over the moon.
