If it's a concrete obligation then okay, great opportunity for the player and eventually a decent fee for us, still not ideal though. But any way they can get out of it makes it a no-go for me, just puts us in a weaker position if he does come back, one year less on his contract and deemed not good enough for the top level.
They can **** right off. Any deal this summer has to be a permanent deal. Barça are in the **** financially. What they’ll do, and what they’ve done before with deals like this, is loan him in as a stop-gap with no intention of exercising the permanent deal.
Yep Its a stopgap till they get williams And if philo somehow has a worldie season They can buy him guaranteed Or send him back
Oh stamps. You wrote stomos. He's a professional, he can suck it up and understand that we'll only sell if it's in our best interests.
Loan fee an obligation to buy plus couple of their rated players they want to loan out to us on loan wages paid by them not bad deal then.
Reports from Spain saying it's a loan with an obligation to buy, with us receiving €20-23m depending on appearances.
Except you can guarantee theyd not play him to stop the obligation if he wasnt playing amazing Its a low risk high reward For them He either does amazing and they get a top winger cheap Or they send him back without activating the clause
Doesn’t help us now though. We lose a key player and don’t even receive the much-needed funds for a massive rebuild this summer. Also, €20-23 million is a crap fee anyway. The exchange rate to sterling would be £16.94-19.48 million, which is well below what we should be demanding for him given Hutchinson has joined Ipswich for more and Philogene had a better season.
It’s an obligation, so we get the lower amount even if they never played him, the appearances only triggers the extra €3m.
