when it comes to the transfer of MP & SJ a club needs to offer an amount that is attractive in comparison to the benefits of us having them in the squad and achieving promotion again.
For example a low £10m fee for SJ and say £15m for MP are in my opinion not worth accepting because they can help achieve promotion which we are led to believe is worth £100m +. Now if we are talking £15-20m for SJ and £25-£30m for MP then that is different because this will give scope to strengthen the squad as a whole and have a stronger collective.
I dont think that these prices are unreasonable when you consider the price that Ramsdale, Martinez, Watkins and Buendia have gone for in recent times. its all a game of poker, and i for one would take a Jeremy peace stance and say pay up or forget it.
we have the leverage of the length of MP's contract and it seems he also wont rock the boat and will knuckle down and with SJ if we did lose him for a free next year we didn't pay a lot for him, his wages wont be massive and he may have helped us get promotion,..... if he carry's on in the England squad then we would get our money back in January at the very least.