Crazy

[xane]

First all this stuff about player loans within the Premiership, and now this.

Manchester United have reached agreement with Real Madrid to receive £11million of the transfer fee for David Beckham in a lump sum.
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Under the deal, the club will collect £860,000 each time Real qualify for the Champions League over the next four seasons.

The same amount is also payable if the Spanish club go on to reach the quarter-finals of the competition in those seasons.

So Man United, a club not exactly in financial distress, are getting paid through the success of a completely different club in a different country ?

Whatever happened to Bosman style attitudes about how clubs don't "own" players any more ?

 

[mank!]

It's probably more common in transfer fees than you think.

 

[Ch3tan]

Thats been happeneing for years xane.

 

[Jonaldo]

It's in almost every deal these days. Even more so with young players.

Peterboro are going to the FA about Spurs including Matthew Etherington in the Fredi Kanouté deal as we got him so cheap due to numerous clauses in the deal like appearences, England call ups, sell on fees etc.
All those meant nothing as we just swapped him for an undisclosed amount so Peterboro got nothing so understandably they were right royally pissed

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Omniscieous
Peterboro got nothing so understandably they were right royally pissed

Quite rightly so. Clubs in the lower leagues need sell-on clauses and stuff like that for revenue, especially with players they bought through their own youth system.

There's enough money about in the Premiershit without you ripping off Division 2 clubs too.

 

[Anasyn]

It's like the whole Stern John transfer a couple of years back

Nottingham Forest stopped playing him cos they had no cash, and a clause in the transfer said that if he scored 20 league goals or summat for them, then they'd have to cough up another £100,000 or something stupid, which they couldn't afford, so they stopped playing him once he got 19 and Birmingham brought him on the cheap.

Although I personally wish they'd sell him on cos he's lazy.. great technique, good player but FFS wish he'd put in some kind of effort, he could easily get 18-19 a season even in the premiership just in league goals instead of the paltry 9 he got in ALL competitions last year (and he was our top scorer :uhoh: )

 

[mank!]

There was a clause in George Ndah's contract when we sold him to Wolves that said we got £100K if they reached the Premiership and he was still in the squad.

It was most welcome