Transfer Rumours 2016/17 City Transfer Thread

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Really? Person for person I don't see a massive difference. They had a very binary system last season that for some strange reason caught a lot of teams on the hop, but realistically they don't have a great team. I think they'll win 2-0 on Saturday purely on momentum (and our lack of bodies), but I think this year they'll get found out against the decent teams

Blackburn are a prime example of this, imo. Won the league then we all know where they are now. Although they may be streets ahead of us soon.
 
Deals were agreed twice before with the US group, are you suggesting this is even further down the line?
They want to sell. They jerked the Yanks around too much. They may have learnt their lesson & not make the same mistakes this time.
It's possible it may be a better offer too, who knows ?
 
if they are 'professionals' as in registered as a professional footballer with the relevant bodies then they are to standard and adequately trained to play the game fo football and having received a wage from such.

not sure what the issue is with playing kids other than bringing the game into disrepute
And yet teams have been sanctioned for fielding weakened teams in cup games?
 
You only get a percentage of the profit I'm fairly sure - otherwise the buying club wouldn't be too inclined to agree to it - so we may only get 200k or something like that.

If the £7 million fee is correct than there is no profit for West Brom on Chester as we sold him for £8 million or so.
 
Thought we sold him for 8m and Villa paid 9m? Or do add-ons not count for sell-on.

I think only a fee, add ons are a bit of a grey area & it depends on what the add ons are & if there is a time limit on them, I expect add ons would be promotion, but whether it's that season I'm not sure, or whether it's any time in that contract?
Having said that if Villa don't go up, I'd expect the better players to be nicked off them. I don't expect Villa to go up!
 
I think only a fee, add ons are a bit of a grey area & it depends on what the add ons are & if there is a time limit on them, I expect add ons would be promotion, but whether it's that season I'm not sure, or whether it's any time in that contract?
Having said that if Villa don't go up, I'd expect the better players to be nicked off them. I don't expect Villa to go up!

Pretty shifty then. What was to stop Everton selling Stones for less than they bought him for, with about 50m in add-ons if he plays over 25 games in each of the next four seasons, or something like that? Feel like that opens things to manipulation to circumvent sell-ons.
 
Here's the Sky Sports story!

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...pletes-transfer-to-aston-villa-from-west-brom

I'm not sure exactly what the deal is with add ons, normally only ever get mentioned with young players, possibly by the time they get a bigger move, they've got an agent who's telling the clubs what's best for their client.
Still I'm sure someone will come on & say something to break that theory.
 
It really wouldn't surprise me if the Allams deliberately scuppered the deal with the Americans once they felt they might get a better offer from the Chinese. It's their M.O after all. Do all they can to push people out of the door/back out so they feel like they have taken the high road (in their own warped minds that is).

I'm heading up on the train now and I'm still looking forward to the game despite all the crap that is going on. It will be great to see the lads back in action!