Agreed about the importance of him signing CTS but AFC have had a history of holding onto players that clearly were not capable of, ahem, taking us to the next level i.e. winning things.
Aitken, Hegarty and Miller all persisted with the same core of a team that won us very little and what JC has to be careful is that we don't keep people for the sake of it.
I think if we can get a fee for him he should be moved on for a younger model.