Luke Molyneux

[Usher wide.]

Every player has their ‘price tag’, I think however, to sell a player who has come up from the academy & is playing above his level for his age & at a high level is shortsighted (unless the amount offered exceeds the clubs ‘value against prospects’) in other words, to become a club that develops young players with an eye to ‘purposely’ selling them on (as Crewe did in the 80’s…could have been 70’s I’m not good with numbers apparently & as Barnsley do/did) ultimately gets the club nowhere. Where are those two clubs now?

As for Luke, we have 30 odd league games yet to play in this division & whilst his detractors are jumping up & down with glee that he’s not yet hit the heights I feel he’s capable of & also in the division higher than this, let’s see where we are come May.

[selby]

 Peterborough the same, but agents hold the all the cards and make money moving them on.
 Most go nowhere near the not so great or injured youngster, but are all over them the minute they start to show up and talent at league level and don't always do the best for the players.
  Like any job there are good and bad in the game, but play a big part in a players career and can make or break it.

[roversdude]

Unfortunately football fans are fickle and our fans top of the league in fickleness
Luke will get his confidence back and return to form just as last season

[Bessie Red]

Less of the sh*T take & focus more on those on this forum who with regards to Moly are surely taking the p**s!

Posts like ‘what price now for Molyneaux?’.

Why? Because he’s not near double figures yet in goals or assists? Oh how these posters love to kick a man (our man, our player) when he’s yet to reach the dizzy heights of last season.

I could offer up many reasons why Luke has not yet reached the game after game of near ‘perfection’ he reached last season & none of it would be to do with the ‘step up in class’ of Lg1 from Lg2.

The same detractors told us that in January of ‘23, Joe Ironside would ‘not score more than 10 league goals from open play that season’.
That Jason Sterry would not make it ‘mentally’ as a professional footballer, let alone in Lg2.

False pretenders I call these posters (the one who called both these ‘predictions out’ knows who he is, I won’t sully this post by ‘calling him out’), posters who ‘hide behind’ stats as justification for their posts.

I like to think I know a footballer when I see one regardless of xg’s.

Luke Molyneaux is a heck of a player who regardless of what one certain poster believes, the majority of Lg1 clubs would snap your hand off to have a player of his capabilities, who has at the age of 27 is just starting to come into his prime, be in their starting XI.

I think you mean January 2024, but numbers aren’t your thing are they. Since then he’s scored 11 goals in about 80 matches. Think you could say my point overarching point stands there.

Plenty of evidence to say that my view about Mols not being the million + pound world beater and likely to struggle in L1, is correct.

I don’t see why people get so triggered about this.  There’s levels and levels in football and eventually players hit their ceiling.  That doesn’t mean we support/love them any less.

If people can identify a player’s ceiling ahead of them hitting it, then surely that’s a good thing.  Wouldn’t we want the club to capitalise on their point of maximum value?

The other thing here, how many million+ pound (or the equivalent value for their era) players have we sold on over the years?  There are schools of thought out there that we have several on our books currently e.g. Luke, “the next Whiteman”, “the next Matt Mills”.  That might end up being the case, but how likely do we think this is?

I think the only player we currently have at the club who may realise anywhere close to a million if sold in a few years time is Sean Grehan.

[Chris Black come back]

He’s played 192 minutes of league football.

[mushRTID]

Unfortunately football fans are fickle and our fans top of the league in fickleness
Luke will get his confidence back and return to form just as last season

I hate reading shit like this.
Our fans are no more fickle than anyone else’s.
I’d go as far as saying we’re pretty patient to be honest.

[Bessie Red]

He’s played 192 minutes of league football.

And?