Here we go then! You couldnt make it up could you. Cant we just move on from this now. He is a snake. He will fail with them and will see him next season in league 1. Just leave it at that. But no. Our club will 'apparently' be making an official complaint about this transfer!! Here is the story! Football League are set to investigate Matty Taylor's move to Bristol City Taylor made the move from Bristol Rovers to join club's rivals on Tuesday The £300,000 figure exactly matched release-clause price in his contract Such information is deemed private and confidential by League regulations The first transfer between the two Bristol clubs in 30 years is set to be the subject of a Football League investigation. There is concern at Rovers over what City may have known about striker Matty Taylor's contract terms before they made their successful £300,000 bid for his unlikely switch from the Memorial Stadium to Ashton Gate. That figure, which City offered for Taylor last Sunday, exactly matched the release-clause price in the player's Rovers contract. Such information is deemed private and confidential by League regulations, and players are not permitted to disclose it to rival clubs, nor can they get their advisors to do so. The League would look into the matter if Rovers make an official complaint, which they plan to do. Rovers are concerned that Taylor's agent Tam Byrne, who works for the Wasserman Media Group, also has a close relationship with City manager Lee Johnson. WMG claim Byrne did not leak any private contractual information and that although he is a friend of Johnson's, he does not contractually represent him. Bristol City sources say Taylor's release-clause price had been published during media speculation before his move to City. A club statement said: 'Bristol City can confirm that it made an offer over the weekend to Bristol Rovers for an undisclosed fee for Matthew Taylor and that offer was accepted.' The furore generated by Taylor's move led to a police presence around his home after the transfer was announced. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...be-Bristol-transfer-furore.html#ixzz4XTjVx0Id .
Not wishing to cast aspersions but Isn't this is a bit embarrassing? It sounds like you are clutching at straws, like with the Wycombe fiasco when you got relegated. Let it go. You are always hearing that a club met a players release clause in his contract when discussing transfers. Rovers must have agreed to the figure in his contract after all
I didnt know such a rule exists that the release clause must by private and confidential so the player or players agent/advisors can not inform any clubs etc. As you say, you hear about release clauses being met all the time. I can only guess that clubs only meet the release clause because they have enquired about the players availability and putting 2 and 2 together, based on this story, im guessing City didnt enquire about the availability of Taylor but just went straight in with a bid that conveniently matched his release clause. Rovers may be thinking that how did City know about the release clause as they obviously didnt tell anyone. Why would they promote a £300k release clause? City has made a statement saying the £300k figure was in the press a week ago so they knew from that. But the question is, how did the press know about it? Who leaked it? Sounds like the agent to me! Of course, no one may have done anything wrong. It may be just a pure lucky guess bidding a cheeky £300k for Taylor. But then you find out that the players agent is very close pals with Lee Johnson, which then kind of screams that foul play is involed. If rules have been broken then its only right that the football league investigates the situation. If it was the other way around that a club took your top scorer by meeting his release clause by the exact figure to the very penny, your club would be thinking foul play has gone on and then when your club finds out the player in question that his agent is close friends with the manager of the buying club, I doubt your club would be happy either. It stinks of sour grapes purely to the fact we are rivals so it makes it look embarrassing. If foul play as been committed then its right to make a complaint. But personally I also think this will be very hard to prove who did what and nothing will come from it. So whats the point? Just move on I say. But if there is proof then expect a fine at least. The player wont be forced to come back of course and I wouldnt want him back anyway Also, I dont know why this story has been made public either. Why would Rovers go to the daily mail about this? They are the ones reporting we are making a complaint. All local press to us are quoting them. They could be just stirring the pot and Rovers could be not doing anything! Until a statement from either club is announced, lets just move on and see what happens
What a load of crock! Who cares now anyway? Like you say.it wreaks of sour grapes when Judas's release clause has been discussed on this forum for ages now, so it was hardly a state secret! Nothing will come of it as you say, because nothing can be proved - its all here say and nobody's going to admit to any wrong doing. City could have learned the price of his release clause by reading this forum! The true folly to be honest, lies with Rovers agreeing to such a ridiculously low amount in the first place, if we're completely honest so whats done is done, lets move on and forget the whole distasteful matter.
Taylor's agent, Tam Byrne, is a personal friend of Lee Johnson - that's how he knew, illegally, of the exact figure in the release clause. So now Lee Johnson isn't just a record-breaker he's evidently a corrupt little spiv too.
Here is DC on what happened with Judus the snake. DC goes back to the summer and explained in detail why the release clause. He has been completely honest and it feels like DC was held to ransom by Taylor over the release clause. Either accept as clause or he was signing for another league 1 club as NO championship club came in for him! DC also stated he knows why exactly he has gone to City and he looked down at the camera as to say foul play by Taylor, his agent and City but DC decided to say he wont say what though. It was a brilliant interview from our leader, probably his best yet for the club. I liked how he started off by saying "who" about Taylor DC said he hasnt loss any sleep as he thought Taylor was off in the summer and he got in a ready made replacement in Luke James. He said the fact we kept Taylor until now and he has scored many goals is a bonus and that we managed to get a few quid for him rather than lose him for free. And no need to rush to buy a replacement as James is already at the club who will replace Taylor in the 1st team and will get his chance and DC thanked him for his patience. So DC said no need to panic and lose sleep over it. Yes losing Taylor to your city rivals will hurt but we all need to calm down and trust in DC as he thinks he has earnt that trust! DC confirmed he will never say never over a players future (see Mildenhall for example) but he still has no plans to bring Easter back into selection for the 1st team. DC did say he enquired about 2 strikers on deadline day but the valuation for them both was way over what he thought their valuation were and will not panic buy. Like I said, a truthful interview and a brilliant one too. Enjoy....
'Rubbish! According to some people on our board LJ hasn't got any friends!' Only one friend - Lansdown. 'Lee Johnson isn't just a record-breaker he's evidently a corrupt little spiv too'. Hope he's indicted and banned forever. I'll bet this transfer was agreed a while ago, just announced publicly on game day with Sheff Wed. It was a plan to take the heat off Junior. Some of our idiots took the bait welcoming Taylor as though he's the Messiah. FFS even Agard scored goals in L1. Said it before I cringed when Taylor was welcomed on the pitch to 'Bristol .....pause..... City'. Lansdown has everyone, staff and fans, on strings.
Careful RP. Talking like that will give you a reputation. You will be next accused of being 1 of my other accounts!
Whatever figure was quoted on this or any other forum / newspaper it was just speculation unless someone can prove otherwise, so the implication of information being illegally got or used should be investigated, if it found to be incorrect then City have gained a player for good transfer fee if the information is correct then city should have to pay a worthy transfer fee, which in todays inflated non sensible fees being paid should be a couple of million
I have to respectfully disagree. Sorry. I dont think City have broken any rules. Recieving info cannot surely have broken rules. Whoever leaked the info should be the guilty person. The fact that Rovers 'apparently' made this complaint suggests they never leaked this info and believe either the player himself or his agent/advisors or someone else in the know around him had leaked the info. They should be the ones punished. For example, if it was his agent then he should either lose his licence for a period of time. Rovers will gain nothing from this complaint. No extra fee's. City wont be forced to pay extra and I doubt that they will recoeve a fine or other punishment as surely recieving info cannot be breaking any rules. Yes they used that info to their advantage but any club would have done so. If Rovers have proof on who did it then yes 100% agree to complaint about that individual. But if have no proof even though its obvious there is some foul play, then just move on
20th December on Gaschat forum... At 8:32am, Harleygas posted this: "Taylor's got a £300k clause in is contact so can't go for less but could go for £300k so a bidding war could see the price rise" At 8:33am, Topper Gas replid with this: "So what's the source for that???" At 8:35am, Harleygas replied back with this: "From a good friend of Taylor's" At 1:24pm, Topper Gas replied back again with this: "He can't be that good a friend if he's telling everybody his get out clause figure? If it's even true I guess it's £300K more than we would have got in the summer if he'd left for the mighty Oxford." All on page 8 of the January transfer window thread here: http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8527/january-transfer-window?page=8 So who is this friend of Taylor's then who leaked the info? So it does look like someone around Taylor has broken the football league rules!
CJS I am not saying that anybody has broken the rules , what I was trying to say was that a investigation would clear all parties if however this information was passed to Lee Johnson then it needs to be sorted out and he needs to tell the investigators who provided it
Of course What I disagreed with was the part about City having to pay a worthy fee into the millions, if the investigation finds the rules were broken. I was just saying I cant see City being found guilty because all they done was receive information. The guilty party must surely be those who disclosed the info, surely!
The only issue is probably with the agent. Can't really see how either club is at fault, and if City matched the sum for the release clause then great. I expect the agent may have breached some code or other. £300k did seem to be common knowledge for quite a while, though.
