Anyone got any idea how much we stand to pocket if Sterling leaves Liverpool for a humungous sum? I'm presuming we negotiated some sort of sell-on clause in the original deal that took him to Liverpool. Because if we didn't, someone deserves a kicking. Either way, I do hope Sterling's agent has told him that if he follows his advice and gets his head down, he could become the new Shaun Wright Phillips
David McIntyre @davidmcintyre76 Few asking about Raheem Sterling sell-on clause. The deal was 20% if sold to an English club, 25% if abroad. #QPR 11:40 AM - 19 May 2015 QPR poised for €15m windfall should Raheem Sterling make Liverpool exit Relegated Queens Park Rangers stand to pocket in the region of €15m if Raheem Sterling departs from Liverpool this summer. The 20-year-old continues to be linked with a move away from Anfield with two years remaining on his current deal. His agent has tried to down play showdown talks with the club this week after reports he wants out to this summer have "been blown somewhat out of proportion". Valued at €70m by the club, he has been linked with Manchester City, as well as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. Sterling joined the Reds in 2010 from QPR and part of the deal was a sell-on clause, which could be a significant boost for the London club. Part of the deal stated that the Rs would be entitled to 20pc of any transfer should the player be sold to an English club. It will be more lucrative should the attacker move abroad, with the club to receive a quarter of any fee. Aidy Ward, the 20-year-old's long-time representative, said he and the player were always scheduled to meet Reds officials this week and insists they will move forward from there. "The story has been blown somewhat out of proportion," he said in a statement to talkSPORT. "Raheem and his representatives have a meeting scheduled with Liverpool later this week, and we will take proceedings from there." Sterling has two years left on his current deal but rejected a reported £100,000-a-week offer earlier this year and negotiations were put on hold until the end of the season. The reports have generally been viewed as another public relations disaster by Sterling's camp, after a pre-arranged television interview in April in which the youngster claimed he was not a "money-grabber". http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...em-sterling-make-liverpool-exit-31236044.html
Sterling should definitely move abroad for a big fee. Why? I'm a big money grabbing f#*!cker who wants our 25% for our club. What goes around, comes around LFC
Liverpool have such an outdated and over-inflated opinion of themselves it wouldn't have occurred to them a player would want to leave
Let's say Sterling goes for £50 million, we pocket £10 million. Add in the expected sales of Austin, Fer, M.Phillips, Sandro, Caulker, Onouha, Taarabt etc. We could be looking at pocketing near 45-50 million in Player sales coupled with 25 million in Parachute payments. Ramsey will have a reasonable amount of cash to rebuild the squad with.....
I'm not getting my hopes up for £50m plus fees. This bloke is still in the 'possible potential' category. He has a chaotic private life, is clearly not the sharpest tool in the box (he can't help that) and has horrible advisors. I don't believe the few European teams who can afford that type of cash would take the risk, he is nailed on not to cope with life abroad and there's better value out there. I don't think Arsenal or Chelsea need him, which leaves City or United, both of whom would need to shift someone else out and still no guarantee of being a starter. He's better off staying where he is, a medium sized fish in a medium sized pond. I hope someone takes a desperate punt on him though, we need the cash.
Man City are the most obvious team having a squad overhaul because there are new rules with the amount of minimum English players in the squad. They're a clear choice and will almost definitely meet Mr Sterling's wage demands. He's the most valuable English commodity at this moment in time, He's only 20, had 3 full seasons in the Prem, England regular, of course he's going for big money.
I believe that Levy had a 40% sell on clause for Taarabt that he is likely not going to collect much on.
A trip down memory lane:- Trial shone light on QPR 'soap opera' Seven men have been cleared of forcing a director of Queens Park Rangers football club to resign at gunpoint moments before the start of a match. The allegation was set against the background of a struggle for power at the club. If it had been scripted in an episode of Footballers' Wives it would have appeared far-fetched. "The trial at Blackfriars Crown Court heard that the QPR board was glad to meet someone who wanted to inject money into the club. In fact Mr Paladini had remortgaged one of his homes and was far from the multi-millionaire saviour who supporters thought would rescue their club. By August 2005 several people within the club had become hostile towards Mr Paladini and were suspicious about his plans for the club." please log in to view this image THE ACCUSED please log in to view this image Andy Baker (pictured), 40, from North Petherton, Somerset - acquitted Aaron Lacey, 37, from Watford, Hertfordshire - acquitted David Davenport, 38, from Chesham, Bucks - acquitted Michael Reynolds, 45, from Wood Green, north London - acquitted David Morris, 50, from Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire - acquitted John McFarlane, 39, from Hayes, west London - acquitted Barry Powell, 34, from Greenford, west London - acquitted Daniel Morris (David's brother) - has disappeared. A European warrant has been issued for his arrest But what allegedly happened behind the scenes at QPR's Loftus Road ground before the kick-off in their first game of the 2005/06 season sounded stranger still. Gianni Paladini, a 60-year-old former football agent whose client list had included top stars such as Fabrizio Ravanelli, Benito Carbone and Juninho, became involved with QPR in the summer of 2004. The club, based in west London, finished fifth in the inaugural season of the FA Premier League but they dropped out of the lucrative elite in 1996 and had struggled financially ever since. Also in 1996, music tycoon Chris Wright took over the club, but five years later he was forced to put the club into administration due to crippling debts. A year later the club got out of administration but only after securing a £10m loan from the ABC Corporation, who are based in Panama. The interest on the loan is around £1m a year and, as one QPR fan told the BBC News Website: "The club has never made a profit of £1m, so I don't know where the money is coming from to pay the interest." This was the background of financial desperation out of which Mr Paladini emerged. A promising teenage footballer, he had been forced to give up the game at the age of 18, before playing a single game for his home town club Napoli. please log in to view this image Gianni Paladini wept in court when he testified He became an interpreter in the football industry and eventually an agent Mr Paladini, who had come to Britain in the 1960s, lived in Solihull, just outside Birmingham with his wife, Olga, and children Stephen and Kate. In 2003 he had expressed an interest in taking over another cash-strapped club, Staffordshire-based Port Vale, but when that fell through he turned his attention to QPR and bought £600,000 worth of shares. Desperate for cash The trial at Blackfriars Crown Court heard that the QPR board was glad to meet someone who wanted to inject money into the club. In fact Mr Paladini had remortgaged one of his homes and was far from the multi-millionaire saviour who supporters thought would rescue their club. By August 2005 several people within the club had become hostile towards Mr Paladini and were suspicious about his plans for the club. please log in to view this image Aaron Lacey was cleared of holding a gun at Mr Paladini's head On 13 August nearly 14,000 fans turned up to see QPR play Sheffield United. Mr Paladini arrived at the ground around 2pm with his son, daughter and grandson Gianluca, who was due to be the club's mascot that day. The trial heard he went upstairs to the chairman's suite and bumped into David Morris, the owner of a 2% share in the club, who asked to have a private word with him. Mr Paladini claimed he was led into the chief executive's office and was surrounded by a group of thugs. Mr Paladini, a slender, bespectacled figure, said he had been terrified and claimed that at one point one of the gang held a gun at his head and said: "Sign, sign the paper - we'll kill you." He claimed he was forced to sign several documents resigning from the club and handing over his 14.7% stake in the club. Police never found the documents, only a scrunched up piece of paper in Mr Paladini's handwriting. please log in to view this image Mr Paladini brought in players like Mauro Milanese (right) Mr Paladini's family alerted the police and armed officers arrived at half time and arrested Mr Morris and several other people. They questioned Mr Paladini who, at one point, broke away from the interview to go to the directors' box and celebrate a goal by QPR's Marc Bircham. Several men were eventually charged with conspiracy to commit blackmail, false imprisonment and possession of a firearm. The prosecution claimed Andy Baker had been hired by Mr Morris to recruit a gang of hard men to intimidate Mr Paladini. But giving evidence at the trial, Mr Baker said he had been invited as a guest of Mr Morris's brother Dan and was hoping to tout for the club's lucrative stewarding contract, which was up for renewal. Asked about the £7,000 found by police in the pocket of his hooded top he said part of it was wages for his employees and the rest was "to grease some wheels at QPR to help us get the (stewarding) contract." On 28 June a jury at Blackfriars Crown Court found Mr Baker and three other men not guilty of all charges. Three other men had already been acquitted. Boardroom coup But while 13 August 2005 was the most dramatic day in the history of the soap opera which is QPR, the saga is not over. Mr Paladini, backed by several friends and fellow investors - including Brazilian World Cup winner Dunga and two Monaco-based companies - ousted chairman Bill Power shortly after the incident. In February this year the club's highly-rated manager Ian Holloway left after a series of rows with Mr Paladini, who had brought in players including Mauro Milanese, Marc Nygaard and Dean Sturridge. During the trial Mr Paladini had been asked by Mr Morris's barrister, Jim Sturman QC: "Did you ever say to manager Ian Holloway that you would kill him?" "In a funny way, yes, but it didn't mean anything at all," replied Mr Paladini. Earlier this year QPR's former chairman Bill Power joined the board of directors at Swindon Town and promised to invest £1m in his new club. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5029480.stm
Comment on radio that Sterling's agent has just stated that he will not sign at Liverpool even if they offer him 7-800 000 per week!!! I hope that means he has a big fat deal somewhere lined up with £70 to 80m fee with a very nice sum coming our way!
