"Between £3m and £5m" - Huddersfield Town: Michal Helik and Brodie Spencer price-tag claims | OneFootball

The Terriers' fan pundit has given his valuation for the club's two best players

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Football League World's Huddersfield Town fan pundit has put a price tag of three to five million pounds on both Michal Helik and Brodie Spencer, after they were identified as the Terriers' two best players.

Huddersfield have had a tough start to life back in the third-tier following relegation from the Championship last season, but look to finally be getting to grips with life in League One under Michael Duff now, with three wins in their last four league outings.

Duff oversaw numerous incomings and outgoings in the summer window, with transfer fees spent on the likes of Antony Evans and Lasse Sorensen, but the Terriers' main concern would have been those that left, as the likes of Sorba Thomas, Jack Rudoni and Yuta Nakayama all sought exits ahead of the new season.

Town would have been pleased, though, to hold on to players such as Helik and Spencer, as they each have shown their capabilities of playing at a higher level, and would undoubtedly have attracted some transfer attention throughout the summer.

Price tag set for commanding Huddersfield centre-back Michal Helik

Duff will inevitably have been braced for irrefusable offers for some of his key players, such as Rudoni and Thomas, yet none were put forward for Polish international centre-back Helik, and so he remained at the John Smith's Stadium as one of the most high-profile defenders in the third-tier for this season.

Helik has been one of the club's standout performers since his arrival from Barnsley in 2022, and he won Player of the Year in his first season for his towering displays, but then arguably improved even further as an individual player in 2023/24, despite Town's relegation, with nine goals in 41 games from the heart of defence.

The 29-year-old has been sidelined with a hamstring injury since late September, but started in each of the first seven league games this season, and so FLW's Terriers fan pundit, Graeme Rayner, has placed a sizeable price tag on his services after we asked him what one of the two best players at his club would be worth.

"A fit Michal Helik, I would value at between three and five million pounds, on the grounds that we don’t need to sell him," Graeme told FLW.

“He is a proven Championship level defender, and clubs in that league can afford to pay that for a decent centre-half.

“If anybody offered us less than £3m, with reasonable add-ons, then I would be politely declining that offer, were I in charge of our transfer activity.”

Similar fee touted for Terriers' international defender Brodie Spencer

Brodie Spencer has had a stop-start beginning to his professional career so far, but looks to have kicked on in the third-tier this term to become a real asset to Duff and the Terriers' promotion hopes.

The 20-year-old featured sporadically in the Championship prior to a break-through loan at Scottish side Motherwell last season, which prompted Huddersfield to recall him in January, and he has barely looked back since.

Spencer is a nine-time Northern Ireland international, and while he is most comfortable as a full-back or wing-back, his versatility and potential have been on full show so far this season at centre-back under Duff, with seven starts to his name in League One to date.

Graeme believes that he should command the same fee as Helik if a club is interested in signing him anytime soon, given his age and his future prospects of playing at the top level.

“I’d put Brodie Spencer at a similar value, but that’s as much about his potential than it is his current ability.

“He’s young, he’s got all of the attributes to kick on and have a very, very good career.

“If he were to develop the way he should, then in three or four years time he could be a regular for a lower-half Premier League, top-half Championship side, like a West Brom, a yo-yo team.

“You’re taking a risk because he might not fulfil that potential, but around three to five million, with decent performance-based add-ons for the future, that would be his level.

“(With Helik) you’re paying for tried and trusted, and (with Spencer) you’re paying for bags of potential.

“The great thing with Brodie Spencer as well is his versatility.

“He can pretty much play anywhere across the backline, and potentially would even have the ability to play as a holding midfielder with the right sort of development.

“The only thing he really isn't great at yet is the attacking side of the wing-back role, but he’s still very young, and he’s got the right sort of brain to get there.”

Spencer is clearly highly-rated by many in West Yorkshire, but Duff will not want to lose either him or Helik anytime soon if Town want to achieve an immediate promotion back to the Championship next May.

It remains to be seen how the rest of their season will pan out, but there is a strong chance that they are still in the promotion race for the duration of the campaign, as they currently sit seventh, and so it is imperative that the club are not tempted into a January sale for either player.