They say that the early bird gets the worm. Well now it looks as if those that are going to wait might be the ones to benefit instead.
A recent report from CIES Football Observatory pointed out that the value of players are constantly dropping whilst there is no football going on, and that could have a dangerous knock-on effect when it comes to clubs in the Championship.
Indeed, according to a report from Football Insider, our fellow Championship side Nottingham Forest could be forced to sell two of their key assets, Joe Worrall and Matty Cash for less than they hoped for as teams have to deal with a lack of matchday revenue as games look set to take place behind closed doors.
As a result, we may not exactly be in a position to command as much as we want for players, because our leverage is going to get weaker and weaker and weaker as time goes on.
And for a club like us, who have got a very valuable asset on our hands in the form of Jude Bellingham, who has been valued as high as £30m, that price might be dropping in the next few weeks, and that puts the pressure on us to try and make something happen if we want to get the best value out of him.
I have said before that the club could and should take this opportunity to turn the battle for Bellingham into something of a bidding war, and if things keep going the way they have been, I don’t think we’re going to have any choice in the matter.
Rather than let him go to a club that we think he’ll do well at as I’ve talked about before, it could simply come down to a case of who bids the highest.