[spireitematt]

Aaron Chapman has gone to Accrington Stanley on loan for 2 months

[bluepooch]

I assume we are bringing someone in as sub keeper then

[spireitematt]

Dunbavin? A keeper who was good was Richard O'Donnell but I think he knew that when Tommy was fit that he wouldn't be first choice keeper.

[Devongone]

I'd try and sell Tommy in the transfer window.

Another eight goals from The Ginger Costa by Christmas and some relegation-threatened club might give us £2.5 million + for him. You know somebody like Man Utd ........

Dunbavin's older than me. Surely a young talented keeper should be our route. Someone who might later want to come and fight for a place when we sell our beloved Tommy.

[spireitematt]

I'd try and sell Tommy in the transfer window.

Another eight goals from The Ginger Costa by Christmas and some relegation-threatened club might give us £2.5 million + for him. You know somebody like Man Utd ........

Dunbavin's older than me. Surely a young talented keeper should be our route. Someone who might later want to come and fight for a place when we sell our beloved Tommy.

What's your obsession with wanting trying to sell Tommy?

Chapman is our talented young keeper but he needs experience.

[Devongone]

Matt,
We are a small club in need of money. One of our saleable assets is Tommy Lee. He is at an age where any value he has is likely to decline. Nobody at our own level pays for a keeper, so he would need also still to be good enough to play at a higher level. The clock is running down. Once no one considers he's worth a chance higher up his monetary value will return to zero.

Chapman may be young in terms of experience, but he ages at the same rate as the rest of us. He made the jump from Sunday football to Belper with ease, if he is going to make the jump to league football he has had a year in which to do it. If he's going to be good enough then he should be NOW. If he proves it at Accrington great.

One of them has to be sold. If we could sell Tommy this winter, get some great performances out of Aaron for the rest of the season we might end up selling both. No one will pay top-whack for a Chesterfield reserve, but if he became that tall bloke who stopped a penalty in the play-offs he'd be a commodity. And we could be planning now to pluck someone else from the Evo-stick.

Similarly another eight goals from The Ginger Costa pre-Christmas and a player we got for free might be valued into the millions. Of course we'd take it. My aim is to use the wheeler-dealing to constantly refresh and re-build our team. That never has been the club's approach in the past, but it is the way forward.

Tommy Lee has always been one of my favourite players, but if he plays for us as long as he's good enough I envisage him still with us at 35, collecting his tea-service and testimonial, whilst the club hovers around mid-table in Division 2.
Moving forward involves buying, selling and scouting to keep the team on the pitch and the finances buoyant. And in their hearts every fan knows it.

[spireitematt]

Matt,
We are a small club in need of money. One of our saleable assets is Tommy Lee. He is at an age where any value he has is likely to decline. Nobody at our own level pays for a keeper, so he would need also still to be good enough to play at a higher level. The clock is running down. Once no one considers he's worth a chance higher up his monetary value will return to zero.

Chapman may be young in terms of experience, but he ages at the same rate as the rest of us. He made the jump from Sunday football to Belper with ease, if he is going to make the jump to league football he has had a year in which to do it. If he's going to be good enough then he should be NOW. If he proves it at Accrington great.

One of them has to be sold. If we could sell Tommy this winter, get some great performances out of Aaron for the rest of the season we might end up selling both. No one will pay top-whack for a Chesterfield reserve, but if he became that tall bloke who stopped a penalty in the play-offs he'd be a commodity. And we could be planning now to pluck someone else from the Evo-stick.

Similarly another eight goals from The Ginger Costa pre-Christmas and a player we got for free might be valued into the millions. Of course we'd take it. My aim is to use the wheeler-dealing to constantly refresh and re-build our team. That never has been the club's approach in the past, but it is the way forward.

Tommy Lee has always been one of my favourite players, but if he plays for us as long as he's good enough I envisage him still with us at 35, collecting his tea-service and testimonial, whilst the club hovers around mid-table in Division 2.
Moving forward involves buying, selling and scouting to keep the team on the pitch and the finances buoyant. And in their hearts every fan knows it.

I understand he is one of our saleable assets and should really play at a higher division such as the Championship or even a mid-table Premier League team and I would like to see some of our players play at a higher division because they are good enough but the problem is if we start selling our good players and don't replace them then we fall down the league and end up back in League 2 etc. If we sell Tommy then I say we go after Daniel Bentley who plays for Southend because he's a cracking keeper.

I think there will be a lot of clubs sniffing around Doyle in the January transfer window but clubs will try and rip us off by paying below the value. I also believe Cook can get the best out of Doyle.

[Devongone]

The bad part of football being a business is that you eventually sell your favourites.

If Doyle keeps scoring someone surely will make an offer we can't refuse. He has fully earned the wages we've paid him, so whatever we got would be profit. Of course he might just return to his normal rate of goalscoring and then we'd be selling a workhorse, not a thoroughbred. Goalscorers are always a gamble, but teams struggling by the January window are more than willing to gamble aren't they?