Cal Sold to Aberdeen

[SwalePie]

Where's the £75k up front figure come from?

[GranthamPie]

Where's the £75k up front figure come from?

My thoughts exactly!

[Notts78]

It's entirely dependent on who comes in. If the fee we received means we recruit better than Cal Roberts then all is good.

A big ask, and I don't have the faith in the radar that some have.

Like everything, radar has its flaws. No system will ever get it 100% right. My question EP, would we have spotted players like Cal and Ruben without radar?

[SwalePie]

A classy goodbye message from Cal...

[magpie2k4]

We also need to pay a sell on fee to his previous club. It’s safe to assume this was around 10% of the money earned today.

[SwalePie]

We also need to pay a sell on fee to his previous club. It’s safe to assume this was around 10% of the money earned today.

Wins all round then, provided we can invest the profit well. Cal gets a decent move, Notts make a bit of cash and Blyth too.

[laddo]

Based on our past successes of selling a player for cash and reinvesting the money wisely I am entirely confide....... Wait hang on... Scrap that lol.

Let's be honest we've fully expected one of Roberts or Rodrigues to leave for the last 6 months and we don't know the internal conversations between player and club since January. Obviously I would have loved it if we had got more but with a year to go any talk of £300K+ is crazy talk.

[Elite_Pie]

While I agree with what you say, not much a club can do if the lad wants a move though. With possibly double or triple wages on offer, who can blame him?

I wouldn't blame him at all, it's a fairly short career so he needs to get what he can.

Reading between the lines it does seem that we held out till they matched our valuation of him.

That's where I'm not so sure. If the fee means we get better then our model is clearly working.

After some of the garbage I've witnessed at a higher level, I still think Cal will be a hard act to replace.

[Elite_Pie]

A classy goodbye message from Cal...

Classy indeed, and a message I think comes from the heart more than the wallet.

[Elite_Pie]

Wins all round then, provided we can invest the profit well. Cal gets a decent move, Notts make a bit of cash and Blyth too.

Yep, but the key words are "provided we can invest the profit well". Not easy in my opinion. Plus I'm disappointed that I won't see Cal curl a 90th minute winner in the top corner tomorrow night.

Over to you Ruben.