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Joe Wark.

If the general price is set at £3,000,000 which I think is a reasonable price to set (alongside a few bonus clauses), AND a figure that won't completely scare medium-sized clubs off down South...we should be telling Celtic that we want £4,000,000 off them as additional compensation for selling to a direct competitor. Also, the bit where they've asked to be kept in the loop, my response to that would be 'aye, nae problem Peter, will do mate', before hanging the phone up and muttering, 'fuck you, ya cockend, you'll be getting told nothing'

Its now being reported that Turnbull will be staying with us unless some club stumps a minimum of £3,000,000, and I'd imagine there will be add-ons to that based on appearances and future transfer fees. That type of cash will allow us to re-pay our debts to Mr Hutchinson and Mr Boyle, and leave a lot left over, especially when added to the other recent transfer activity with McKinstry, Hastie and possibly Cadden. So the question is, what do we do with that pot of gold? The money we made from selling St John, helped to pay the costs of re-building the Main Stand, while the transfer fee from Phil O'Donnells sale to Celtic was more or less fired straight back out by Big Eck in transfer fees for the likes of Shaun McSkimming, Andy Roddie and Eddie May. Now that we are a fully-fledged fans-owned club, we are on the cusp of being completely debt free & we're going to have a surplus of cash swilling about, what should our priorities be? Does it allow us to spend that wee bit more on player quality now that we don't have Boyle and Hutchinson looking over our shoulder, or do we invest it in infrastructure...our own training ground, an area in the East Stand for proper 'safe standing', use it to help modernise the Main Stand (if that is at all possible). Its an absolute wrench to potentially be losing Turnbull so soon, as hes a joy to watch and clearly 'One of Our Own' but possibly the best thing he could ever do for the Club he supports is bring some huge money into the place that will help us not only safeguard the Club, but allow us to actually push on, in some way.

I would like to have a chunk of it reinvested back into the youth setup so we can develop more talents.

Some of it should go to Craig Thomson’s retirement fund, Just to make sure he doesn’t come back.

£3 million and a decent sell-on clause to an English team would be excellent business. Hopefully a number of clubs meet the requested fee, allowing Turnbull to decide what option is best for him. Id normally be gutted at Motherwell losing such a talent but he is so good, I just want to watch him perform at the highest level possible.

Ian St John should definitely be in there.

I know he wasn’t a player so apparently he wouldn’t meet the criteria to be inducted but John ‘Sailor’ Hunter would get my first vote. Players, I’d start with Willie McFadyen, Bobby Ferrier, Hughie Ferguson, Andy Paton,

Surprised that the launch poster appears to restrict voting to ‘favourite players’, surely potential inductees should include managers, directors etc.

Put it on red.

Much as I'd like us all to have heated seats and free pies, our academy is one of our biggest assets at the moment, so doing our best to keep that pipeline going, whether that takes more or better facilities, coaching or scouting staff, seems like a reasonable way to invest. The main thing is not to go crazy, because we sure as heck won't be in this fortunate position forever.

We don't have to sell him to anyone. He seems quite content to stay and we aren't desperate for the money. For me, the ideal scenario is that he plays another season for us as a Motherwell employee. The risk that he suddenly becomes worthless is neglibile. I'd much rather see him in claret and amber for another campaign than sell him now and use the money to buy 2 or 3 players that will never be as good. We'll be lucky if we ever see a player of his talent again, so let's not rush to offload him.

4 million from Premiership team with add ons...........and loaned straight back to us for next season ?????? that would be the ideal scenario

This probably isn't the thread for it but the notion that discussing this is wrong because of Rangers fans point scoring has meant that the victims had to wait an extra 20 years for justice and are still waiting on an apology and compensation. Celtic promoted that line through the media to protect their reputation and it's sad to see after so much information has become available that people are still mindlessly parroting it.