Not seemingly, bargain basement price for a player of that quality and character even at 45 million.
Just as Boehly paying stupid amounts of money for players is a bad look for that club, letting players go for a lot less than they are worth is also a bad look.
We didn't get a big fee though at 35 million.
In PL money terms that's an amount that's not even close to being big for a player of that talent level.
We just paid 30 million for a championship player.
Because the whole model is based on him not having to be putting his hand in his pocket to keep us going.
The money we get in for sales plays a huge part in our future success.
Because he could have had a terrible tournament or gotten badly injured.
Plenty of reasons for him to have signed a new contract that don't involve convoluted theories.
And yet we have a master gambler that time and time again has proven he can get more out of a transfer than others expected.
Wow what?
Have our club said anything regarding a clause?
Until they do it's all un-substantiated speculation.
Sorry if I require actual proof and not here-say.
Selling MacAllister doesn't prove there was any release clause.
It proves we are sticking to our model of not standing in the way of players moving to bigger clubs.