'Valuations must be met if players leave' (From Watford Observer)

• "If TS goes, I hope we get a fair price, but you need a team wanting to buy him and at the moment we have had only two bids, which to date have gone no where. Frankly when we re-signed him I was a little underwhelmed - he was not an established big championship or a premiership player. He did ok in premiership, but not good enough for any club like a Hull or Burnley to repeat our decision in buying him when they got into Prem. I think Boothroyd bought him for the same reason he tried to get Robbo, hoped to build on Watford loyalties plus he new hardly anything about the players market. Look at good operators in the transfer market like Coppell, talented players at value prices. TS is not the best Watford player of the last 12 years. Alan Neilson, Ashley Young, Heidar Helgusson, Tommy Mooney, Robert Page, etc all have equal or better claims. If TS goes it will not mean the end of the season, but it will emphasise the need for WFC to improve player recruitment and raise more matchday income by improving the stadium. The new regime know that, and they know it will take time. Ultimately unless you can guarantee a few seasons in the premiership you have to operate on Championship TV money and the criowds you can attract, unless you have someone prepared to indulge their interest by subsidising the club. Twice in the last 10 years the club has gambled stability and slow continuous improvement in favour of speculative investment in players wages and huge back room staff. As a season ticket holder since 1976, anyone who thinks we are anything more than a top 30/40 club with the prospect of a tilt at promotion every now and then, needs to get out more"
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