I’ve quoted it before but Roy Keane tells the storyprobably naivitey on my part but i always thought a benfit of a big club loaning out their players was they got first team experience, and off the clubs wage bill for a bit.
i knew loan fees existed but always assumed they were minimal, like 150k, i had no idea they went into the millions.
seems mental to me, but most of modern football does so nothing new there![]()
He wanted Jonny Evan’s at Sunderland
Evans was on ten grand a week at Man U
Man U charged a million quid loan fee
And Evan asked for twenty grand a week!! And got it
Roy went mad at him and he went Roy I read your book and you said know your worth and ask for the max!!

So that was probably fifteen years ago!!