Ben Smith: "To say a fee is agreed not entirely true. #LFC told Barca they will sell for release clause not for less. Barca say they will meet it" and "#LFC waiting to see if Alexis wants to join. Until they know, not certain how Suarez works. Looks increasingly like straight cash" So really whatever the final fee is will be the release clause.
I think it's the bite! Temporarily lowered his value. If we're only getting a little north of £60mill for him we would have been better waiting to sell him in January when his value had rebounded... (unless of course we've already spent the money from the sale... and have no option but to sell him for so little) We're all hoping it's more than £63m... but it's not as bad as the £50something that some had predicted.
Don't think so, think whatever fee we get will be the release clause. So if the fee is actually the £63M being reported in Spain then that's because that was the agreed release clause in Suarez's contract.
So at the moment it looks like the release clause is GBP 63m? Seems a bit strange, unless its EUR 80m and just over GBP 63m, which would make more sense. In which case, the team got the release clause and couldn't have done anything more (right now at least, maybe with the release clause).
Arsenal met the release clause LAST summer according to John Henry! £63mill as a release clause is a pretty wimpy release clause. In Spain, Teenagers with nothing more than a little bit of potential have higher release clauses than that.
If it's the correct amount probably the most we could get Suarez to agree to when signing new contract.
things about release clause. 1. euros. i do not believe that lfc would insert a £ amount fro 40mil or whatever to allow talks then a euro amount next time 2. 75mil euros is too convenient a number. Its not round sterling equivilant. so all in all if someone someplace in spain is saying a release clause is met the next question is.... has it really and what is it. 70mil sterling is conventional wisdom since contract was signed. ... 63mil aint far short but its short... its still makes last summers decisions look genius. frnakly 63? it aint bad and its onyl suarez scoring 31 mil that has guys wanting 80mil.
If the release clause is £63m then there is no more we can get. And if so, then the team did great to get Suarez to ignore last year's £40m release clause and get an extra £23m, plus the ~£30m for CL football.
just can't know til the real story comes out. barca have been stung for lying about neymars fee so if they are still at that they never learn. the thing is util a real deal is done we cannot know.
It did. JWH admitted it had a release clause of £40m and Arsenal activated it but we just refused. Probably could have got messy legally but doubt Suarez would have really kicked up a fuss as he def didn't really fancy joining Arsenal. If we did the same thing to Barca then they and Suarez would kick up a huge fuss which is why we have to accept the money if they meet the clause.
in the end... his deal was running out. we broke his 40mil release clause. anyway.... hunter only tweets "Looking like #Barça and Liverpool reached deal on #Suárez €79.2m five year deal" which equals he doesn't knwo but is retweeting the other guys without an actual link nothing at all on tony barret's account AT ALL... which says something ben smith is in barzil so can't know much "To say a fee is agreed not entirely true. #LFC told Barca they will sell for release clause not for less. Barca say they will meet it" agian who told him after that you are down to balague. who tweets According to @xavitorresll the weekend will be defining. There is a deal about the fee, but not yet about how to pay it. Alexis sale, key ReplyReplied to 0 times RetweetRetweeted 226 times226 FavoriteFavorited 77 times77 More Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague · 3h Luis Suárez al Barcelona for 75 millones de euros y 5 años de contrato (via @esportclub de TV3) ReplyReplied to 0 times RetweetRetweeted 424 times424 FavoriteFavorited 56 times56 so bascially the guys who cliam to be in the know don't know and a tv station borke the 75mil euros... so... we'll see.
All the money in cash up front please. Their accounts are already dodgy as ****, and meeting a release clause means meeting it not just saying you will at some point.
Mirror: Reports from Spain last night claimed Liverpool had reached agreement with Barcelona over the £63million sale of disgraced striker Suarez. Liverpool insisted no such deal had been formalised, but the framework for an agreement is in place - with Barca winger Sanchez key to the deal. Liverpool sources dismissed reports they would sell Suarez for as little as £63m, with the Anfield club wanting around £70m for the controversial Uruguayan.
London Evening Standard: Reports emerging from Spain claimed a straight cash fee had been agreed which is lower than the buy-out clause, believed to be between £70million and £80million, in the Uruguay international's contract. However, there is no consistent agreement on what that new figure is - the most common suggestion being 75 million euros (£60million) - but sources close to the Liverpool end of the deal categorically state there is no truth in the claims. The two parties held talks on Wednesday and Press Association Sport understands Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre left that meeting confident a deal could be done which met their valuation. Liverpool insist nothing has changed in that regard from their point of view and the only hold up to the transfer going through is negotiations surrounding Sanchez.
