Don’t think Southampton have really gone in for release clauses, and if there was it would probably have been leaked by agents now? He may have a clause though as we’ve been relegated as per Ramsdale?
Fernandes was hardly a name when we got him. Wasn't even playing regularly for Sporting. Was a reserve player.
Yeah I meant a relegation one. He was very highly thought of before signing for us so think he/his agents would want that safety net if we went down. If there is one I would guess it’s around £30m, but yeah we’ll see. Think it’s a bit early for stuff to be coming out just yet. Today is the first links I’ve seen at all about him moving on. The fact that they have started already means he 100% is leaving though imo
Like Delap? He has one. All the media in Portugal was about him being Sportings brightest prospect but they either sold him or first team players to meet financial rules
A sell-on fee would make more sense for Sporting in that case. A release clause doesn't benefit them though.
I meant from his perspective. Sporting probably do have a sell on as seems to be standard when any young player moves on. Anyway we’ll find out in the coming months. Hopefully he doesn’t have a clause as we don’t seem to include one usually (Lavia and Livramento didn’t have one, although they joined under different circumstances). Maybe an insistence on a clause was why we didnt get the Delap deal done in the summer as has been reported
They have a lot of cracking young players that come through. Next one might be Geovany Quenda, though I guess we wouldn't have a sniff being a Championship team.
Welcome along, Bournemouth... the vultures will see you now https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1922958148245045715
Real Madrid buying a player from Bournemouth. A frankly laughable statement at any point in their history up until the last 5 minutes. Question is can they continue to buy well with the money they will make from sales this summer? And if they do, surely the head of football and recruitment team will also be poached.
Let's hope not. All credit to Bomo for what they have achieved with the limitations they have had to work within.
Just read they lose 15% to former clubs & the balance is payable over 3 instalments. They won’t be investing much immediately of that.
