Quote Originally Posted by cardiff55 View Post
£10m plus IO would think. Bristol City sold someone to Bournemouth yesterday for £13m and I've never heard of him, and he's only go one full season in the Championship. By that standard Etheridge should eb £20m. We shouldn't sell him for less than market value, Welsh we shouldn't sell him anyway.
Wurzels also sold us Tomlin for a hefty sum but his weaknesses have been well and truly exposed now and now club would go near the amount we paid for him, Zohore was reportedly set to go for £10 million plus when on a hot streak a couple of years ago but again his weaknesses have been exposed and no chance we'd be able to sell him for that much now. Etheridge's value will be based on what premier league clubs have seen last year, a fantastic shot-stopper who needs to work on distribution, the strength of our position as a selling club, we're supported by parachute payments and have an able back-up who will drive up the price, and the relative strength of the buying club also. I think it's likely that Etheridge's value goes down after this summer, only doing a lot of work on distribution prevents that, and therefore may be a candidate to be sold if we get an offer of £10million plus but also that his known weaknesses will stop him going for anything near £20million. However, if we're looking to go back up and stay up, then Etheridge having so much positive experience at that higher level is a really good reason to keep him.