Yep - pretty sure as per Naylor / Argus etc it was a £35m up front mechanism type deal - so we’d have hopefully got some likely clauses in there for the additional £20m. That contract was before the WC stuff remember too. We’d prob only ever do that type of ‘clause’ and very rarely if ever have I known us put a straight release clause on a player. It’s so so rare in England but gets talked about all the time. But like player swaps!
Can we ban people embedding tweets on nsc from twattish big club plastics as this is a football fans forum and it hurts my eyes to see them.
Was thinking this. Wouldn't it be better on here during the window if we just banned all Twitter links? We can use Twitter if we want, separately. It's totally mutilated this and the Moises thread.
Didn't you write this two posts ago?
So how's that a problem? If he is just hitting stride after 18 months and a team Is mad enough to pay that kind of money I don't see how that is anything other than a win. You could argue 'we've invested time and money in him over the last two seasons and not really had the full benefit', but surely 100 million pounds makes up for that?
While I agree generally, £100m release clauses are relatively rare outside of Spain. Not sure we would manage to get that in a contract anymore than without one completely.
Because a release clause wouldn't anywhere near as high as £100m for a rookie player.
Personally I'm not a fan of caving in to these sort of demands. It also hints that he has plans to be off like a Cucurella. Asap.
Kudus isn't a rookie player.
Which is why he probably won't end up with us. Doesn't fit our model.
I agree to an extent but once you have a player you currently value at 100 million, it's a lot easier to say to a Kudus- we value Caicedo at 100 million, and it looks like someone will eventually pay that. We bought him for 5 million (or whatever). You are a high profile player playing for a huge European club and you're costing us 35 million playing in a position that generally attracts higher prices.
What's our model?
Indeed. Let's not be known as "the release clause club".
Also, it suggest the player/agent is already thinking about the exit before they've even joined.
I suspect the poster asking the question knows what you mean however I would question our model if it is not adaptable to new circumstances. Reaching the top 6 and qualifying for Europe exact a whole new paradigm, one in which Bloom and co will have moved some boundaries.
Yeah I guess it just depends have the market fluctuates. £100m could be a pittance for a player of Kudus’ quality in a few years, or the market could crash. Guess that’s the risk you take. I just if I was a player brought in and had a £100m release clause currently, I’d see that as the same as having none, as it seems rare that £100m is an average price for a top CM.
