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Huge difference is John McGinn isn't an unhappy player, he understands that his time has maybe come to move on and it's up to the clubs to get the best deal for all parties. Jamie is an unhappy player who wants to move back to a country he knows and likes well, his team will want to get an unhappy player off the books and recoup a little of the money also, our big problem is his wages if it's a sale, not so much if it's a loan.
I don't think that's a big difference in the context in which we are talking but even if it is, we can swap McGinn for Allan the first time he was here. He wanted to go to Rangers, we didn't want him to go to Rangers. In the end only Celtic were able to meet our valuation of the player and Rangers missed out.

Generally speaking, a team wanting to keep a certain player isn't good for other teams that want him. I honestly don't see how there can be any disputing that.