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Nah, he can get f***ed.

Anyway, that's that then. I'm confident that we'll spend the 45-55m very wisely on players that no one has heard of but will have armchair fans of big 6 clubs be moaning about us not letting them buy them for peanuts in 3-4 years time. Sorry, Alexis, but you're just a scouse **** to me now.

The bloke that tweets on Albion Roar is such a bellend.

I really don't like Man City and think Liverpool are a far bigger club historically, but I would LOLz if this happened. Although, I can find nothing suggesting this rumour anywhere in either mainstream or social media.

I know that clubs make contact with players' agents before a fee has been accepted and that this is fairly common practice. However, surely a medical can't be completed before they have made BHA a formal offer that triggers the supposed transfer clause?

Did we not have our usual one year option on top of that, or is that what took it to June '24? So far the best and only source of the release clause is what David Ornstein wrote a couple of weeks ago, where it's reported that BHA still has control over the outcome. The fact that Naylor...

Yes. He repeatedly tweeted that Caicedo was going nowhere in January when, let's face it, we all thought that it was inevitable after that Insta post.

The 45m figure is a load of bolllocks. Fibz has said the release clause is significantly less than 60m, someone has plucked an arbitrary figure out of their arse and it’s proliferated via retweets.

Also, isn’t there a 6 month rule whereby players whose contracts are due to expire within 6 months are free to negotiate with whomever they want?

Yes, you’re wrong. You can believe that billionaire businessman Tony Bloom wouldn’t negotiate a deal to get the maximum possible price that he thinks a buyer would pay if you want, but I know better.

I always though he was ok. Note that even this discussion has picked up on the 45m price tag, which seems to be based on nothing other than Fibz 'significantly less than 60m' quote. It shows the power of social media and useful idiots who'll take stuff as gospel and retweet. Is this the Greg...

You're wrong. His price valuation algorithm will be used to set a maximum price when we're buying a player. However, when it comes to sales, it's always a case of get the highest price possible. We're not a charity.

Something I have to say is that the abuse Naylor is getting from Liverpool fans for stating what is most likely a fact direct from BHA is unacceptable. It was the same with Arsenal fans in February.

Makes no sense. If a club is prepared to offer a certain sum for a player, then they’d offer that sum regardless of how long the player has been with his current club. Why would you accept less than what a club is prepared to pay? Bloom/Barber are certainly better businessmen than that.

45m is a made up value. It has not been reported anywhere.

Liverpool have not sold us Lallana or Millner. They were both free agents and there'd have been no requirement to deal with LFC at all.

Have only seen David Ornstein in The Athletic report any sort of release clause, which to quote was: "This is thought not to be a typical release clause other clubs may simply trigger, leaving the player to choose their next step, but a more complex feature that gives Brighton a say over the...

They'll factor in time left on contract, which is why Bissouma and Trossard went for around 30m each. We're not going to be giving a discount on a player just because we've got a good 3 seasons out of him; we don't owe the buying club anything and it'd be terrible business. A player is worth...

Where has 45m been quoted?

If (and it's still a big if) we allowed our first release clause into a contract, we'd not have put it in for a player that we didn't value. He was only ever going to leave for an elite club, and on the basis that the new deal added a couple of years to his contract, being wanted by an elite...