And just for further ‘clarification’ (or not!) if it helps ….
a player with an agreed ‘buy out’ in his contract can unilaterally terminate the contract with existing club for a pre-determined compensation fee and become a free agent rather like you agreeing to pay a utility company an exit fee...
I started a discussion on this on the Mac Allister firsts thread but realised the discussion took the thread well off topic, so I’m moving my later posts to here - Release Clauses and Buy Outs are quite recent issues in English PL contracts and not a subject I (and I assume many others) know a...