£4.3m is cracking business by us, but the caveat being we’ve got to give City 50% of whatever we end up selling him for (that’s how it works, right?). If that’s the case, we’ll want a minimum of £10m+ later down the line so we get our money back and some profit.
Ultimately, Doyle is a young English midfielder who has already proven he can hack it in the Premier League. He has potential to get better, increase his value & he seems fairly low maintenance to me. All that for under £5m is fairly unheard of in this day & age.
As I’ve said before, when you build a squad at this level, you need players like Doyle. He’s not a player that you’d want to see starting every week, but he’s someone who you’d have no qualms about playing to cover injuries/suspensions/squad rotation or by bringing off the bench to replace someone else. If you don’t have good depth within the squad with players like him, you end up in a scenario like we’ve seen this season, where we have literal schoolboys sitting on the bench that are no real viable option at all.