No, you're missing the point. What we're laughing at is that a Palace fan came onto the Brighton forum (well, the main one after Seagulls Chat) to gloat that Brighton were going to lose a striker to Palace, and Bent has chosen Derby instead.
You're arguing with an idiot. You said that they had 3 dangerous approach players who weren't good at scoring, and they could do with Bent, and you get told to "get off your high horse, you're criticising us yet you support a Championship side fighting for it's life". There's no reasoning with...
They might have, but I doubt he'd say. If some players did have it written into their contracts, I'm sure there would be players that didn't, so it would be awkward to say anything.
The problem is, you want to buy the best players, and if they're on a decent contract elsewhere, with no...