McAtee Contract

Let’s just hope he signs an extension, sooner or later we know he’ll get snapped up by a bigger club, good luck to him when it happens, hopefully not for a bit yet though as he’s a player that we’ve paid to watch.

We should be safe this summer as he needs an operation on his shoulder, ruling him out of pre-season and potentially the first few games in August.  Would be good to keep his contract length at 2 years for a bit of security should there be interest next summer.

I'd like to see us act with a bit of ambition and try to keep investing in our best assets where possible.  Would promotion be worth more to us than a potential £250k transfer fee?  I'd say so.  Of course, it's entirely possible that if we fail to achieve promotion in the next 2 years, he'll be moving on.  But then we will hopefully have improved the rest of the squad enough to remain competitive and we'll get a return on our investment, with a nice potential sell-on.

The way to make him more saleable is to win a promotion, with him in that team and under an extended contract. Just makes business sense. Then, even if you don’t get promoted, your asset is protected.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Hurst gave McAtee his first pro deal at Shrewsbury, then signed him at Scunthorpe where fans say he played well under him and then brought him here.

Hurst has signed McAtee three times, he's still young and Hurst seems to be able to get a tune out of him. I think we get another season out of him and if we are still down here at that point, keeping him might be hard.

I never knew the Shrewsbury link! Thanks for that

I’d be very surprised to McAtee leave this summer.

I can’t see a club coming in with of a bid of what we value him (I’d imagine about 500k-750k) while he has a shoulder operation imminent.

Come next January, assuming that his performances remain at the same level - I wouldn’t be as confident. Desperate teams throwing money around to strengthen in January could see a L1 or even championship team take the gamble.

… If we don’t go up, we all want to see him score against scunny too