Originally Posted by
Marc Overmars
I don’t think it’s a case of not wanting Balogun to stay, it’s probably more about him preferring to leave to be the main man somewhere now, I can’t see him warming the bench after the season he’s had. Realistically he isn’t going to get more than a few run outs in the cups if he stayed with us. We’ve got a good spread of goals across the front line so I’m not sure what we’d be missing because he’s a similar type of striker to Eddie. I think we need to be looking at a more physical striker to give us the option of mixing it up.
The loan worked a treat for all parties. We can get good money for Balogun and put it towards other areas of the squad. Stick a sell-on fee on him too incase he really explodes. Unfortunately we don’t have an infinite money cheat code, so we need to be a little clever with how we operate and moving on surplus players for good money is part of it.