Brother in law has just informed me that Josh Sheehan is off to Bristol Rovers for a undisclosed fee. Anyone else on here heard anything?

Rumour has been circulating on 1FF for a couple of days.

How would a fan owned club hide the 'undisclosed' fee from it's owners?

Willthiswork wrote:How would a fan owned club hide the 'undisclosed' fee from it's owners?

Fan owned or not, it's just common sense to hide transfer fees so agents and clubs don't start asking for silly money for the replacement we want.

Big loss to County if this is true

I wonder how long this has been in the works for. Our recruitment so far doesn’t suggest we’re trying to replace him, so wishful thinking tells me it’s just a rumour.

halfmoon wrote:I wonder how long this has been in the works for. Our recruitment so far doesn’t suggest we’re trying to replace him, so wishful thinking tells me it’s just a rumour.

Or, possibly, it has been in train for some time but we won’t green-light signing the replacement(s) until the ink is dry on Sheehan’s move and we know we’ll have the money to cover it.

Given how well he’s done for us in the last 12 months, I’d say the question isn’t whether he’ll go but when, and how much we can get for him.

Reading up on opposition squads, fees are very rarely disclosed these days. For the glaringly obvious reason that once a club knows how much you've received, they'll hike the price for the replacement.

I thought Rovers were skint, though?

Obviously not as skint as us if we are prepared to sell him

Every player has his price. Were United skint when they sold Ronaldo?

George Street-Bridge wrote:Every player has his price. Were United hskint when they sold Ronaldo?

No. But had they not sold Ronaldo a twelvemonth later he went for nothing. In terms a cost of £84,600,000 for one season had they not sold him to Madrid.

County struggled last season. Losing O'Brien and now potentially Sheehan is leaving a big hole.

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

George Street-Bridge wrote:Every player has his price. Were United hskint when they sold Ronaldo?

No. But had they not sold Ronaldo a twelvemonth later he went for nothing. In terms a cost of £84,600,000 for one season had they not sold him to Madrid.

County struggled last season. Losing O'Brien and now potentially Sheehan is leaving a big hole.

And Sheehan can leave for nothing at the end of this season as have other players we could have received fee for by selling when under contract - how much would we have received for Butler, Day, Hughes, Byrne?
Absolutely right to sell anyone who gets a reasonable offer at our level, there are many free replacements in terms of fee available - it is readily possible that a sale of Sheehan could pay two- three annual wage packets.

Researching for programme profiles it's noticeable how many players - not necessarily spotted anyone we'd want at the moment - left L2 clubs at the end of last season and are still out of work.

Rumour on fb it's Sunderland not Rovers either way, we shouldn't stand in his way we will get some cash and add ons out of it. That's the way it will always be with us.

He only found consistent form last season and still not in the Mark Byrne standard in my opinion. Every player at our level deserves a chance to progress and every club at our level needs to cash in if they can.