Mitoma? Adingra?
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[Albion] Sima
- Thread starter BluesRockDJ
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So he will be brilliant
Gabbiano
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At 27 you're buying proven quality. That's worth more than potential.
27 is around when purchase price peaks, top clubs are buying players at that age who can slot straight in and hit the ground running. You get 3-4 years of that player at their very best for that price.
Long player contracts are there to protect the selling club, it certainly played a role with Caicedo, and he wanted to go.
GloryDays
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I just think if a player really wants to go it'll happen. We're not gonna Sancho the guy. As fans we only hear the basic facts. 5 years, release clauses etc. Take the Mac Allister situ as an example. Signed a new contract, proceeded to go on to win the WC but we sold him to Liverpool for what many considered a low fee, without a bidding war.
Many fans felt £50m out of pocket there. For whatever reason (fatigue, boredom) Mitoma is blowing cold a bit more this season. Doesn't look like £50-70m of player to me.
GloryDays
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I agree. Mitoma's the best player in the world if you only watch Match of the Day. He is a great player, magical feet. £40m would still be good money.
Edit - Totally agree with Caicedo comment too. I think it's just a case by case thing for the club. It became clear Caicedo's mgmt team are mercenary scum so we took it for what it was worth. Mitoma stayed in J-League to finish his studies etc. Two very different personalities which may be treated differently by the club when an opportunity to cash out comes along.
The contract clearly makes a difference.
The new contract enabled the lower value move for Ally
GloryDays
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Of course, it stops someone leaving for free. What difference it makes in hard cash is literally anyones guess, which is what we're doing. Lol.
Look, if we get £100m for the guy we're all delighted. If we "only" get £40m don't be surprised.
GloryDays
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Right. But no one knew that publicly when he signed the contract, or was it common knowledge he could go for a lower fee?
Two players who haven't played in THAT pub league?
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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No it didn't, without the new contract we'd have got significantly less for him because he'd have only had a year on his previous deal. We'd have also ran the risk of losing him for nothing if he decided to run the deal down. This was a compromise to protect the club from that eventuality but still went a long way to protecting our asking price. No way would we have got a deal worth up to £57 million for Alexis if he only had 1 year left on his contract.
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The Hermit Kingdom
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It’ll potentially be Man City if their alleged FFP cheating punishment is delayed enough. Pep has talked about him before.
BluesRockDJ
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As I understood, the club, to their detriment , put a measly £35 m release clause in the new contract ?
….quid pro quo. Could have left for **** all a year later. Win/win.
JetsetJimbo
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- Jun 13, 2011
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I noticed a little while back that some of the papers had switched to reporting Mac's fee as 55m instead of 35m. Not sure if that means the add-ons have been triggered already, but everyone was saying at the time that they were going to be very easy to trigger.
Not Andy Naylor
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I have it on good authority that the lower fee clause in the new contract was known to nobody outside the club *at the time it was negotiated* and Ally Mac's people.
tigertim68
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- Sep 3, 2012
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Well pretty obvious who told Liverpool the selling price in the contract
Gabbiano
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Well yes but there'd be no point in insisting for including the clause if they didn't then tell someone about it. Hardly a shocker.