There have been, not unnaturally, a lot of posts of the message board along the lines of “why are we letting him go” and even a few “why Colchester?”.

I think we need to get a couple of things in perspective here.

Fox is out of contract in the Summer. At the moment, he shows absolutely no inclination to sign a new one. That means that, in June, he could walk away from the club and leave us with nothing. The amount we would receive from a tribunal would likely be very little, as his formative years were spent at Everton, not the Banks’s. If we have received a bid in the region of that reputedly offered and turned down from Leeds, 250,000 to 300,000. then we would be mad not to take it.

There is also the question of which clubs would be interested,

If he is out of contract in the Summer, then not many clubs will be bidding cash for a player they might be able to get for nothing. The only teams bidding will be those who need him now - ie, the likes of Colchester, fighting to stay up, or Leeds, fighting to go up. I’d rather it be Colchester than a rival.

No, our concerns here shouldn’t be the possible departure of the player, but whether Dicky Dosh is going to be given any of the money to strengthen the squad. As for Fox, if he does go, I wish him well, but it his choice and we do have adequate replacements in Boertien, Taundry and Sansara.