There was no road show but some just seem to think that players should have to apply to play for us and then we can just pick the ones we want and they should feel privileged we've chosen them
2 year deal? Thats pretty short. Has to mean he will be in the transfer window at the end of this season.
If he helps us consolidate our Premier League status & moves us up 2 or 3 places and helps us with an extended run in Europe it'll probably pay back what we outlaid for him. The bonus would be anything over what we paid for him if he's transferred after a year. All would be positive outcomes...with the added bonus being the ability to attract higher calibre players for the season after. Seems win-win for everyone involved...providing he performs.
'Has to mean he'll be in the transfer window at the end of this season' isn't pointing something out. It's being negative before the player has even pulled a first team shirt on. He might also be our first full England International player at the end of this season.
I have a feeling this has something to do with this tribunal, there is probably a side agreement in place for him to extend, but just saying 2 year deal will lessen what the tribunal say we have to pay for him.
No its not being negative. I am excited that he signed for us and I think he will be a wonderful addition. It was simply pointing out that something is going on there as a 2 year contract is basically unheard of for a non development squad player or a really old player. You are reading negativity into something that is just not there. Like John says it probably has something to do with the tribunal.
I don't think the length of the contract we offer him has anything to do with the compensation fee, although free transfers on 2 year deals does seem to be fairly standard practice.
But it is not a free transfer we will have to pay a fee, we couldn't agree with Blackpool, so the tribunal has to fix a price now.
It only goes to a tribunal if we cant agree with Blackpool. We have according to the media offered them 3.5 million. That amount is hardly shrapnel.
I think my father would be pleased it the bit of shrapnel he still had after the war was worth £3.5M
I posted the section from the rule book that has the guidelines for how compensation fees are determined in the other thread. Here's the post: He cost Blackpool £150k. There's no way all the other criteria add up to even £1m, never mind £3.35m, so I think the media are just speculating and are well wide of the mark. Compensation fees are there to stop clubs being left empty handed for investing in youth once a young players had his head turned by a more favourable club and run his contract down. It's not about getting the transferor club the market value of the player, it's about recovering the costs of developing a young player. If they wanted to get a big fee for Ince, they should have sold him when he was under contract. They had big offers and they turned them down, that's their own fault. Whatever clubs may have offered to buy him or paid to loan him previously has no baring on what the tribunal will deem they deserve.
