Erm yes...... no one on here actually knows if there is a clause (safe to assume there is), and the actual wording. Would a club knowingly bid more then a release clause? YES Luis Suarez had a release clause for £40M, Barca paid just short of £70m for him. Why? The clause was Liverpool had to listen to offers after the trigger, they did just that but clubs kept out bidding. No one on here knows what exact clauses are in any player contract at the club, he may be be allowed to leave for bang on xxx, or that may be the opening price. Maybe Silva has a "you can't sign any city players for a year" clause in his settlement agreement. We just don't know.
I'm not disputing that we don't know if he has a clause. It's a general discussion about them. I'm pretty confident that Suarez clause was for other Premier League clubs. The point was he didn't want to join one.
If a club want to make sure they get him, all they need to do is offer the release clause and offer more wages than the other interested parties.
That's how I see it, the release clause price is the lowest price the club will sell the player for. Should two clubs want the player the sale price could go up, but if only one club bid then the release clause price will be the sale price.
Even if a club did bid more, he can still join the club who offered the minimum fee to meet the release clause.
Interesting point, if a player has a release clause of say 5 million and then two clubs come in one bids 5 million and the other bids 6 million, is it the player or club who has the power? ( more than likely the agent )
Sliva will obviously know what the clause is and will simply meet it if he wants the player and there is no settlement agreement, he just left when his contract ended.
Can people stop the stupidity over this? If he has a release clause of £5m, nobody is going to pay us £6m or £5.1m. You can't have 'biddings wars' with release clause, they'll all just match the release fee. on another note, Grosicki has been great for us. Yes, he's frustrating at times but he's one of the best wingers we've had in god knows how long
Snodgrass, Brady, Aluko, Elmo (until recently), Hatem Ben Affrey, Tom Ince, Stephen Hunt, Henrik Pederson... yeah no decent wingers.
Really? Suggest you look up Daniel Geey (a sports lawyer heavily involved in transfers and wrote papers for FIFA ect). Depending on the wording of the clause, the selling club may accept bids from other clubs, this includes if the fee has been activated by one club. No body here knows the terms of the clause, so we are speculating. Would agree with you that he has been one of our best wingers
He didn't say they couldn't accept bids from other clubs. He used the words 'they'll all', and he's right.
