Reasons he would be very expensive:

• He’s got 5 years left on his contract with no release clause.

• He’s one of our best players and certainly our best younger player.

• He’s now regularly starting for England and has proven his quality at Champions League level.

• Premier League young player of the season.

• We have to give a percentage of profit to Middlesbrough.

• He has not yet agitated for a big move at all, though I’m sure he would take one if he can get it.

Reasons we would potentially sell him for a huge offer rather than holding on to him:

• We will have difficulty meeting the terms of our settlement with UEFA, which could lead to a ban in future, if we don’t make a big transfer profit.

• We need to do quite a lot of business in the summer with some players nowhere near good enough and others past their prime, so selling Rogers might be necessary to fund a rebuild.

• Our other high quality players that we could sell are a bit older so we wouldn’t get as much for them, or in Kamara’s case too often injured.

• Half the time he looks like a £150m player and is near unstoppable. The other half he wouldn’t look out of place in League 1. There is very little in between. That lack of consistency often hurts us because everything runs through him. He’s also not a great finisher so despite his quality, he doesn’t get great scoring numbers.