Nahki Wells’s future at Bradford City remains uncertain as the club prepare to fend off strong bids for their top scorer when the transfer window opens next month.

In just three years, Wells has gone from winning the Bermuda Football Association’s MVP award after finishing as Dandy Town’s top scorer with 20 goals in the 2009-10 season to becoming a player who is believed to be valued at £3?million.

Wells is joint top scorer in Sky Bet League One with Leyton Orient’s Dave Mooney on 15 goals in all competitions, although he leads the charts in league goals with 14, compared with the 13 scored by Mooney and Callum Wilson, of Coventry City.

So how much money would you want for Wells before he is allowed to leave City? That was the question put to Bradford fans in a poll on the Telegraph & Argus website yesterday.

Only 3 per cent of those responding think Wells is worth between £1?million to £2?million. Twelve per cent say £2-3?million, while more than half, 61 per cent, believe he is worth more than £3?million.

Another 24 per cent say the striker should not be sold at any price, which is the belief of manager Phil Parkinson, who knows it will be difficult to find a like-for-like replacement.

But one thing is certain: if, or when, the 23-year-old leaves the Coral Windows Stadium, he will become Bermuda’s first million-pound footballer, far surpassing the fees paid for Kyle Lightbourne and Shaun Goater. Lightbourne is Bermuda’s most expensive footballer after twice transferring for £500,000 (about $825,000 at the time) in 1997 and 1998 when he left Walsall for Premier League side Coventry and then nine months later when he joined Stoke City.

The highest fee paid for Goater was £400,000 in 1998 when he transferred from Bristol City to Manchester City.

Similarly to Lightbourne at Scarborough in 1992, Wells was released from his first club, Carlisle United, in 2011 before signing for Bradford.

Bradford have gone five games without a win at home, but Parkinson praised the response of the players after City fell behind for the third home game running when Lloyd James fired Orient, the league leaders, in front just before half-time.

Parkinson felt there were three cases for a spot-kick for his side, particularly early on when Wells was nudged over by Romain Vincelot.

Parkinson said: “People will say they’ve heard it all before and I’ve menioned it every week. But the way we play in terms of pinning teams in and getting a lot of balls in and around the box, I just don’t know how we’ve not had more penalties.

“To only get one [this season] is strange. It doesn’t seem right given the amount of dominance we’ve had in games.”