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.
Even taking all this into account, how much credit can Blackpool take for his development, when his formative years were at Liverpool? Surely they made the biggest contribution to his development? Blackpool just gave him playing time and got a player on the cheap.
