James Garner

[AjaxAndy]

Happy to pay him around £80k - £90k a week, think that's a fair wage and keeps us from having someone on relatively high wages that maybe hasn't fully demonstrated yet that we should pay them top dollar (for us) over a lengthy contract.

Don't mind giving another contract for more after another 2 years of consistent performance and development.

[Bob Sacamano]

Coming from an entirely neutral place - what level of player do you get for £120k a week?

I don’t rate this fella half as much as some but you’ve gotta see the sense in cashing in from a PSR perspective. Would t he be almost pure profit if he’s into his last year?

[TheRam]

For us, 120k a week is your absolute top tier, game changer players.

He isn’t that for me.

As good as he is, I still think we should be looking to have better in the middle when we can and have him as the 12th man really.

Maybe he is going up a level though and three years under Lampard and dyche got the worst out of him.

[TheRam]

If we’re pearl-clutching at paying our better players £125k p/w, then what are we even doing?

Depends on if you think he’s one of our best players or not.

More than happy to pay Ndiaye it, but not garner.

[4evablu]

And here yiu are putting made up finances on a player again rather than be thankful he’s playing well….
Also when we’re trying to build something solid and progress why do people want to sell off all our better players ? And buy what..?
PS I got slayed earlier in this thread for even suggesting he should be getting a look in at the England squad…

[Trowel]

[Bluedylan1]

I think £125k is about right for his profile, age, Englishness etc and I don't even rate him that much.

Even if he doesn't continue to improve and stays at this level, he'll still be very sellable in the coming years for a more than decent fee.