Unless it's changed recently, England don't have insurance on players either, they pay their wages out of their own cash.
Nobody has seen Snodgrass's contract or the one he was offered so most the stuff in this thread is just nappy filling speculative bile. I think OLM is probably on point with the relegation clause and the way things are looking. January is a big month for the club. Results and transfer business have to go well or else we'll be hoping for a miracle. Stay up and all these issues will be sorted next summer.
Maybe what they signed up to back then is not something they would sign up to now? Either way, it's still courtesy.
In line with a pay cut there'll be release clauses introduced. I expect us to lose most of our current first team if we're relegated. Release clauses will as per Diame be pre agreed and likely less than the market value of the player.
No, Bruce said all players had wanted release clauses inserting if the club was reducing salary. Most had release clauses inserted into their contract following relegation.
I was suggesting that Diame's may have been low because we got him for a knock-down £3m from West Ham. Maybe his agent was like "you've already got your bargain when you bought him so put a low release clause in." Probably not.
Well you're not going to get top whack are you the whole point is so the player has a chance to continue earning and playing at the top if he's done well enough for people to be interested. What else do you expect any owner to do, honestly? Well if they didn't want to sign up to it now they shouldn't have ****ing signed it back then.
Interesting that he quipped about Eto being able to make a header at corners......... perhaps if he got his organisation right he wouldn`t come out with **** like that.
