Matthew Pollock

Quoted from pen penfras

The rumoured number I heard for Pollock is ridiculously high. I think £500k is about right. He has potential, but the lack of pace is a huge hole that can never be filled. It will ultimately come down to how many teams are willing to make offers and play them off against each other. Personally, I think Bennett was better, but if the interested clubs are at a higher level then we might get lucky.

Spending the money is a lot more difficult. We can't pay transfer fees from the terms of the premier league bailout and we have spent most of our wage cap.

Thought we couldn’t use the money received from the Premiership for transfers but any money raised via a player transfer can surely be used otherwise we are saying that clubs at our level are subject to a transfer ban if fees are involved.

1 million + loaned back to us until end of season should be possible..

If we get 1m it’s likely to be spread over 3-4 years plus any add ons

I think the main interest in him is because he can score goals. Considering he is our top scorer, goes to say a lot about our other palyers who are supposed to do just that. A good central defender is much sought after but even more so a good central defender who can score is like gold dust.

We just need him to slot another couple of toe pokes in in the next few games and his price should rise even more.

The value of home talent may go up, when we come out of EU.

Pollock better than some of the donkeys on show in the Premiershit.

We lost out on potential additional revenue, when Bogle went to Wigan, wrong move for both Bogle and GTFC in my opinion

Hopefully still a Mariner after the January transfers.

UTM

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

I wouldn’t say he’s been completely free from criticism. A good prospect but far from worthy of a big transfer yet .

I like Pollock, heart on his sleeve etc., but the one thing he seriously lacks which is so important in today’s game is pace. The old adage about “positional sense makes up for that” only goes so far at the top level today.
For the more senior amongst us, it reminds me of the Handyside scenario, a fantastic player for Town, and though he moved on to Stoke (I think?) if he had been quicker he could’ve played at the top level for many years.
For this reason I struggle to see Matty playing above championship level (which of course is still fantastic for him  ) so I’d take £500k + a sell on % tomorrow

He’s still got plenty of development ahead of him and saying what he’s worth or what level he’ll be able to play at is a bit premature to say the least.

If the club get a decent 6 figure offer for him then it’s job done and another tick in the book for Woodsey and the structure.

Anything over £500k should be accepted.
Anything over £1mil should be hands snapped off.

£500k with some add-ons and clauses I would be delighted with.

Pollock is one of our better players at the minute but that unfortunately is not a very hard fete.

In my opinion we have a better prospect in Idehen.

He's alot more athletic, which is vital in today's game and with the right coaching and attitude, could become a priceless asset for us.

I'd build my team around him as captain, we've had some excellent defenders that lacked pace in my 45 years of supporting,  

Quoted from lee65

I like Pollock, heart on his sleeve etc., but the one thing he seriously lacks which is so important in today’s game is pace. The old adage about “positional sense makes up for that” only goes so far at the top level today.
For the more senior amongst us, it reminds me of the Handyside scenario, a fantastic player for Town, and though he moved on to Stoke (I think?) if he had been quicker he could’ve played at the top level for many years.
For this reason I struggle to see Matty playing above championship level (which of course is still fantastic for him  ) so I’d take £500k + a sell on % tomorrow

Think it was Macca ( John) who said the other week he sees Pollock reading the game pretty well which is equivalent to the first couple of yards in a game, he said Futch didnt get done for pace that often as he read the game so well. He acknowledged the game has changed but still saw Pollock as a Championship defender.