DrPoolittle
Well-Known Member
With Prem deals happening and clubs picking up large wedges it’d be a bit, well.. how should I put this?
Fuckingdumbasstastic not to wait another few days for potentially another £3m
Edit to add: Unless Sporting are paying all 17m upfront and we get a fatfucking sell-on clause. Then I’ll book him the Easyjet myself
it won’t be a single lump sum. Most transfers are paid over a period of time. It’s how a club writes off the value of the player.
Typically, the buying club pays the fee over the length of the contract the player signs but not always.
The fee for Suarez was paid to LFC over 5 years as I recall, which outraged Liverpool fans who thought transfers in RL were the same as transfers in Football Manager 99/00.
It can be complicated: firstly Brighton will take their sell on percentage which might be 10-20%.
(WBA had a 50% sell on clause for Ugo Ehiogu years ago)
Then there will be a down payment, then the lump sum paid over a period of time, then all the clauses.