Plymouth bid 750k for Jatta

[jackal2]

Here, here smiffy at no time was I downing the owners but people on here seem to think wanting promotion is a swear word

No they don't. I want promotion.

But I also recognise that promotion isn't built around one player, that every player has their price, and that the reason we've had Championship clubs buying/bidding for two successive strikers is because the recruitment team found these gems in the first place, so they might already have the next Langstaff or Jatta in their sights.

I don't think it's by any means certain that we'll sell Alassana, or that he would want to go, but we have to recognise and respect that the whole business model of the club is based upon identifying good value players, even if it means paying six figure sums for them, developing them, and selling them if the right bid comes in, which help keep the club sustainable. There will never be a perfect time to sell a player and fans are never happy to lose a good one, but on the occasions it happens we've got to trust the process, even if it sets progress on the field back a bit in the short-term (which it won't necessarily).

When you pan out and look at the full picture, the approach over the past five years has seen us on a slow, but steady, upward curve, despite some setbacks and dips along the way, and we've recruited a considerable number of very good players.

The approach of several previous regimes saw us sign copious amounts of expensive dead wood, whereby it was relatively rare for other clubs to even want to buy them, and despite some moments of promise, we were generally on a downward curve, which is why we ended up in non-league.