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I think it comes down to the offer. If it was £2 million. Could we possibly make that with Europe and a good cup run, yes possibly so it's worth knocking back. If the bid was £4 million would we be likely to make that with a cup run and European Football? Highly unlikely so that offer becomes worth it.

And since then? Maybe you should look at transfer fees as a proportion of the overall club turn over. £3 million pounds to us is probably 'worth' more to us than £6 million pounds to Hibs when you consider budgets, wages and so forth.

Every player is different and has different attributes and abilities. Can't make assumptions based on your very brief examples. That's an absurd comment to make. Halland came from small club in Norway. Possibly Miller may get to next level. Your view is fairly short sighted.

Accies got £3m for James McCarthy in 2009. I can’t recall Accies having a conveyor belt of quality talent prior to him.

Way to miss the point. What I'm saying is if you have exactly the same player at Stranraer, Motherwell, Hibs and Celtic the transfer fee received is going to be in a pretty predictable order.

Thats fine then, your quite right, let’s just punt him for nothing because of our past history of under achieving players. nonsense

Seeing James Scott playing for Ross County on Saturday, (as well as Allan Campbell signing for St. Mirren after sitting around for 6 months without a club) should have been a reminder that virtually none of the players we've sold on for big money have really made any real impact at a higher level. Even arguably the best players we've produced in the modern era, James McFadden, Phil O'Donnell or Tom Boyd, have not exactly set the heather on fire down south. You have to think that that affects any sell on price for a player after a while. Certainly if I was buying from a club one of the first things I'd be looking at is, have players from this club succeed at a higher level? Hibs can point to John McGinn at least.

If agents had their way, all their players would move every window.

I’m just hoping his agent doesn’t talk him into submitting a transfer request so he can go to one of the uglies. If his agent has half A brain and a wee bit of patience, he’ll get a better club and better financial deal down south.

He should know better than to say things like that in public or even in private. He should be telling possible suitors to fek off, we need him at Motherwell to finish our season. He’s not for sale.

Totally agree.

Mio - I’m with you big time on this one. first of all - he should shut his mouth and have nothing to say about any Motherwell players value - he’s a player not our ceo . Know your place type thing . If referencing other clubs players being with 6.5m etc , it would have been so much easier to say - this is a 22 year old international player here at FP who’s the leagues top scorer . Now if others are worth 6M then be interesting to see how much clubs would pay for the top scorer . in all honesty it’s passed the time Halliday moved to his next role , either as a pundit or go play at Patrick or similar . I know he means well but I don’t really see him as promoting us, more himself and being dragged into the media OF that so many others have lived off for donkeys years

When in the same breath he’s saying about Bowie being worth £6.5m….. get yersel to fk Andy. When both of those poisons have recently bought Idah for £9m and Chermiti for £9m and TJ quoted for £3m utter baws!!

Agreed,that's stupidity from halliday,he's just created a headline when there didn't need to be one.

Option 1 and someone welcome to my season ticket. We sold star player for £4.5 million in summer so no need to sell anyone. If we sold that trio our season goes pear shaped and you lose about 2000 off the home crowds. This is best season i have enjoyed in over 30 years and could finish on a high, even more so if we have our best players

We need to be charging what the player is worth.

I would have been more annoyed if he had said £300k

3m is a lot of money for a club like us

Why the fk is Halliday on a podcast saying it’d take £3m for Maswanhise to leave us in January? he needs his arse booted. His opinions in general are fine but not when it comes to teammates and something which would make our team poorer.

We’ve played 2 rounds of fixtures and the manner of our performance in games is a whole new level for us but after 22 games+ it doesn’t look like a flash in the pan so in this instance I’d go with option 2 thinking back to Jake Hastie, I think he performed over a handful of games and was a good move for him going to rangers.

That's right. It's the same with selling players. Do we cash in on Watt, JT and Just in January for guaranteed money or keep them in the hope they keep us in the top 4 and help with a good cup run? Option 1 is money in the hand, but with the risk of sliding into the bottom half of the table, losing to Aberdeen in the cup and crowds falling again. Plus not repeating a season like this in the forseeable future. Option 2 is speculative, but the rewards could be a good cup run, a European spot, maintaining higher crowds and a season to remember. Risk/reward can be a difficult calculation for players and clubs.

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Yeah but the money was guaranteed, turning into something special with us if he'd stayed was not and never would have be guarenteed

We should definitely not be selling any of our good players in this window, or in the summer if we can help it. I’ve not given up on a top 3 spot yet. Shankland out for a bit so maybe Hearts will struggle. We still have to play rangers and Celtic twice. Both uglies are capable of dropping points against any team in the league, as well as against each other. Of course, we are also capable of dropping points but there is still 16 games to go amd a lot can happen. At full strength and playing well, we are more than capable of beating either of the uglies.

of course we don't - certainly not in the Scottish medias view We should simply pi55 our pants with happiness and glee just for one of our players to be considered by the mighty Glasgow (Insert either of Old Firm here)