Dembele Transfer Request (Merged)

Quoted from Chrisblor

Clubs figured him out after a few games. The lad has a load of tricks but no end product and is easily kicked out of games by more physical players. If anyone offers us more than £50k for him I'd bite their hand off.

My thoughts exactly.

With a number of clubs expressing interest we should at least get a decent fee.

It's a shame, as I thought he had plenty of promise for Jolley to work on and develop.

Would be gutted to see him leave really, the only player in the last couple of miserable seasons that could get me out of my seat and think something was going to happen .....
is he bigger than the club ?  of course not ...... if he doesn't want to be here should he go ? of course he should ...

if there are "several" teams looking at him then let a bidding war commence.....we dont have to sell him after all.........just make sure we have a whole bunch of watertight sell on clauses in there.

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Agree with this apart from the 50k bit... that's nothing these days, we want 6 figures

Unlikely to happen with clubs knowing he only has 1 year left on his contract. They'd be free to offer him a deal for after next season from January anyway and any fee would be subject to a tribunal (and probably less than anything we could negotiate ourselves with a club during the transfer window this Summer)

Very disappointed in the young man`s attitude with this towards the football club.I suspect the hand of an agent and sadly it`s the modern game to a tee.

I feel I should be more disappointed by this than I actually am.

His interviews with Humberside before the Coventry game in March pretty much confirmed that he/his agents had ideas a bit of their stations so this request hasn't really come out the blue.

As a club we've every right to feel a bit cheesed off having pulled a player from the scrapheap and given him a platform to perform on.  However, this also another example of a mistake made in the operational running of the club.  Everything I've read/seen/heard leads to the belief that Dembele was on a very basic contract here, something that you would expect from a first-year professional.   However within a few weeks of the season starting Dembele was a mainstay of the side, probably one of the first names on the team-sheet in fact.  You can't expect to keep someone on a wage that suggests they're a fringe player (at best) and then pin the hopes of the team on them and then get miffed when they say they want to head elsewhere.

That's not about money being the main motivator, it's about rewarding appropriately.  Dembele didn't turn into a bad player overnight, he was overplayed and probably got drunk off being the lowest paid player in the changing room.  As a 21-year-old, no doubt with an agent in his ear promising the world, he's going to have his head turned when there's no offer on the table here.  He was outstanding those first ten games, that seems to have been forgotten.  I'm not sure teams figured him out as such, they just figured us out and realised by doubling up on him they nullified our attacking threat.  

Properly managed, properly rested, properly coached and properly rewarded could have seen Dembele a better and happier player.  We'll never know but we didn't really try did we!

I think Jolley would have brought his game on an awful lot and got him shining again.  But he doesn't to be here so there you go.  

Scunny £125k

No point in crying over spilt milk. Thanks for whatever you did in the black and white - or didn't do - but we move on. Get a fee and get one or two more committed types in, good business.

To borrow a phrase from Joey Barton - Demebele’s the Justin Beiber of football. Great on youtube but cat urine in reality.

Don’t want to be too tight on a 21-year-old, but I’d want a bit more fight and desire from someone with his talent. There are players who would take a game by the scruff of the neck and drive a team on but Dembele absolutely melted from December. Plenty of tricks in his locker, none as impressive as the disappearing trick he managed after Christmas.

Doubt we’ll get much of a fee. The player wants away and we haven’t developed him as a player. But any fee has to help with recruitment.

Despite him having the talent I echo most peoples sentiments that I’m not that bothered that he won’t be playing for us next season. He didn’t seem to have much end product and if he doesn’t want to be here then there’s no point in fighting it.

He can go and he’ll be replaced. I’d rather see max Wright progress in his position.