Manager Ronnie Moore spelled out to the Advertiser this week just what it would need for the chasing pack to prise the jewel from the crown. Moore saying:
"I can more or less guarantee that Sunday won't be his last game and no matter what anybody thinks, we have not had a phone call about him."
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"We have a strong chairman who won't let anyone come and penny pinch him, if we had to go to a tribunal, we'd go to a tribunal."
"It might not be what Alfie wants to hear but it has to be decent money. If it's not then he doesn't go."
"Of course if the price is right we won't stand in anyone's way."
"If someone comes in with £2 million or £3 million and we can bring in three or four players and put the rest in the pot, it's good business, I think that £2m to £3m is what he is worth in the modern game."
"Alright, he's proved nothing because he has only scored in the lower divisions, but he has never had the opportunity higher up. You can only score where you're playing."
"If I was a manager in the Premier I would take a chance on a 23-year-old like he is and with the money they have up there, £2 million is nothing."
"We have no set fee in our head and anyway, I want to convince him to stay. That's why we really need to get promoted."
"He's a predator and there's not many about that's why there's been a lot of interest in him,"
"He has massive belief in himself but I think there are areas where we can improve him and I think he knows that. Once he does improve in those areas then the world is his oyster because he will score whether he's playing in the Premier League or when he's 40 and playing in a pub team."
"With the little bit of pace and knowledge he's got, he can go as high as he wants to go."
As for the man himself Alf said this week:
"I'm just concentrating on Sunday's game, If you ask anyone in the changing room they'd say their ambition is to play at the highest level and I'm no different."