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We seem to get less money for players who have played for us for a reasonable amount of time. This is because they have established themselves and their initial contract is coming up for renewal. They hold the cards at this point. We will end up earning more from this deal than we did with Biss...

Well the good thing about it being Liverpool, is he will probably come back to us, on a free, at the end of his contract....

It seems clear the "release clause" was a mechanism which specified £35m cash and add-ons to be negotiated based on our valuation of the player. So it both is and isn't a release clause. Interesting that Fibz is one of the few sources that still hasn't referred to the add-ons on this...

Caicedo will be exceptionally hard to replace. Mac not so much.

The £35m thing seems to be driven solely by Romano's tweet. Sources from both clubs are indicating a higher fee + add ons. Tony won't have agreed a bad deal. Whether the low fee is part of a larger strategy, or a reward for an exemplary employee, will only be known by him.

It isn't as bad a look as you think it is. A player was developed and sold on to an elite club, with no fuss from the club, for a decent profit. He is the perfect case-study, for all prospective signings. Sorry to see him go, but he had reached his ceiling with us and needed to move on...

We haven't been shafted. Some plastic twitter clowns, may like to pretend we have been, but we haven't. This deal was agreed some time ago. It is part of a strategy, that only TB will fully understand. Tony is playing 3D chess, every one else is playing Checkers (Draughts)

This is likely to be our biggest spending window ever. I bet Tony doesn't have to fund a single transfer. TB has become a billionaire by correctly assessing the value in thousands of markets. One individual deal being seemingly cheap, doesn't undermine the model. In regards to replacing Mac, we...

Lots of our fans getting upset that we have let our best player go for peanuts. This isn't the case.. £35m rising to £55m to a club likely to trigger all add ons, is decent money. We have had a couple of examples of getting extortionate fees, for 2 players who only played 1 season for us. That...

Both will be correct £45m up front, rising to £55m with add ons. We still refer to Cucurella fee as £63m, whilst it was widely reported as £55m up front + £8m add ons (which we probably won't see much of)

Yeah it may be a bit cheap, but in the grand scheme of things, it's our third highest transfer fee, with a chance of rising to our 2nd highest. TB doesn't need to make the extra £10m on this that he could. He is saving that for when the going gets tough with the Caicedo bids this summer. It may...

The problem with a mi The issue with a minimum fee clause, is that it becomes the maximum. If more than one club are involved, they are then negotiating with the agent on personal terms. Far better for a Prem club to givwe their money to a player than a competitor.

I think Ornstein (or possibly Naylor after retweeting) said we have a say in the proceedings not control.

I seem to recall previous transfers have followed a similar pattern, where a very low fee has been discussed freely around the internet. Those deals then took longer to complete than expected, for an undisclosed fee, with Naylor later tweeting something like "significantly north of the...

You KNOW better? Do tell... or is that just waffle?

I'm wrong? Stating you know for a fact how TB negotiates all deals, seems just a teensy bit arrogant. You may be wrong, too. Imagine that! But we'll never know for sure.

All points above, are complete speculation, based on an assumption, the club have agreed to a minimum price on the player. This may prove to not be the case, and the current Fibz tweets are Cucurella to City all over again. I also think there is a good deal more to TB than just being a ruthless...

Pretty sure there was a semi-reliable admission that there was a clause inserted but it wasn't a standard release clause. i.e. we weren't committing to the total value of the deal. My guess (as posted above) is there is a cash value and then the club will negotiate the add ons on top. If this...

And number 10 is probably his least effective position. I wonder if dad has sought any assurances that is where he will be playing?

It isn't about giving a discount. It's the inflated fees we charge for players who we haven't benefitted from. We tend to think that our players are worth more than they are based on the Cucu/White/Caicedo valuations. My point is that when pushed to sell on earlier than we would like, there may...