I really wouldn’t pay them much to get Souttar now. £200k maximum. If Hearts want to play hard ball and demand a daft fee, fine, they’ll get nothing in the summer. It won’t be easy for Souttar if he has to stay at Hearts for the next 5 months but it is what it is.
If any of our players leave under freedom of contract - and it certainly is a risk at the moment with Morelos, Aribo, Kent and others to be out of contract in the not too distant future - I just can’t imagine that we would act in the vitriolic way that Hearts supporters seem to be acting. We would be disappointed but that would be it.