Imps Reportedly Turn Down £1 Million Rob Street Bid

Journalist Peter O’Rourke has reported that we have rejected a £1 million offer from an unnamed League One club for striker Rob Street.

While O’Rourke hasn’t confirmed the club, and I haven’t spoken to the club, it is my understanding that the involved League One side are Luton Town, and that the £1m reported fee is a total fee, rather than upfront. Credible rumours circulated yesterday that a possible up-front fee of £600,000 had been rejected, and we were holding out for a £1m up-front.

I haven’t confirmed the veracity of those numbers, but the rumours paired with O’Rourke’s report do tend to suggest there’s some legs in the rumour. Also, Marc Tracy’s move to Luton would mean he has intimate knowledge of Street and what we see in him, making the Luton rumours even stronger.

Normally, I wouldn’t report a matchday rumour, but this one seems to be coming together like a John ‘Hannibal’ Smith plan.

Lincoln City have rejected an offer of over £1m for striker Rob Street from an unnamed League One club. #Imps pic.twitter.com/YN8UiaiCjf

— Pete O’Rourke (@SportsPeteO) August 31, 2025

Rob has had a decent start to the new season, and he was a player we saw a lot in when we took him from Cheltenham for £30,000 a little over a year ago. I’m led to believe we had tracked him from his Crystal Palace days, and were in for in when he moved the Cheltenham. The fact that he’s being linked with a big move away does seem to prove our recruitment team know what they’re doing.

Selling him for £1 million would almost certainly rubber-stamp that belief.

Street had a great finish to last season, bagging 12 goals for Doncaster out on loan, and he’s looked lively for us at the start of this campaign. However, ‘looked lively’ and ‘worth seven figures’ are very different. It is nice to have a player who should be valued highly, attracting attention – those goals in League Two have rightly shone a light on him, and his start for us has shown he’s a competent League One player.

Is he worth £1m? He’s worth what a team is willing to pay. The question should be, is he worth more than £1m to us? Every player has a price, and if I were to pick one that I think the club might be willing to accept for Rob, then it would be around £600,000. If they have rejected that, and we are holding out for £1m or more, then fair play. We’re under no pressure to sell, and as the window comes to a close, we do need our best players.

That said, for a £970,000 (or more) profit, I’d be happy with us dipping into the loan market to cover the exit, and I’d certainly wish Rob well.

Far from this being bad news, I think it is great. We’ve made plenty of money this summer to strengthen, we’ve spent in a key area and will hopefully do so again, and players that fans haven’t even considered as possible £1m exits are now being linked with moves.

We absolutely have to be doing something right.