Also, if you sign a player on loan with an option to buy but their loan spell is disappointing and you don’t want them, couldn’t the club just sabotage contract negotiations by offering extremely crappy terms like minimum wage per week, the deal falls through and the club doesn’t have to pay the fee for the obligation?
This is why I’m asking whether we still have to pay the transfer fee even if Giles doesn’t want to come.
An obligation to buy has all the personal terms agreed already, if he's happy to come, he comes. If he'd rather go to Boro, then he'll go there and they'll just match everything we were offering.