Last updated : 10 December 2010 By Covsupport News Service
Coventry City manager Aidy Boothroyd has said that City will not be selling Aron Gunnarsson.
There had been comments in the Icelandic press over the weekend that the midfielder was not signing a contract but Aidy Boothroyd, who has already said that keeper Keiren Westwood is not for sale, told the CT: "It is a player's natural right to let their contract run down and Aron Gunnarsson is in a similar position, but I don't see the point of getting rid of good players and perhaps just being a club that wants to develop players for other teams.
"Like all players, which is their right, they read the papers and if Wayne Rooney is getting £250,000 a week then Aron thinks he should be on £245,000 a week. .
"And he's not quite worth that yet. I am hoping he will be one day but he is not anywhere near that yet.
"I think he is a young player who has got a lot of talent but the game has changed. There was a period in the game when players got more money than what they probably should have done.
"But now, because of the recession, everyone has had to keep calm and you find that agents are more sensible now. Well, most of them are.
"And they have got a duty to their players to say, 'Look, you are a young player and the best thing you can do is take an example from the likes of the boys who were here before, like Danny Fox, who has gone on to bigger things and earned the money.
"But you have to earn the right to get big contracts and you have also got the right to decide if you take the offer up from the club.
"We like Aron and want to keep him. I think he is nowhere as good as we think he can be. I think he has got huge potential but at the minute he is inconsistent and the more he plays and the more he gets a kick up the backside and a cuddle, the better he will be."
When asked by the CT, if Gunnarsson has rejected the club's offer, Boothroyd commented: "The chairman is talking to his agent and I think his agent could do with a strong cup of black coffee and then perhaps have a little think about things. "Perhaps he is thinking about his fee more than anything else."
