Mucca Mad Boys
Well-Known Member
“the deal” being “this fee in return for that player” so in effect it is. King clearly values it at a couple of million because he’s willing to take a lower cash fee for it. Without the 35% Sporting wouldn’t have been able to afford him.
If the fee had been from Burnley and was £18m + McNally would that have counted? We’d have had to agree on a value for McNally to decide, sell ons are no different.
Imagine a scenario Sporting sell up for £30-40m and we got an extra £10-14 million… does it not count? Of course it does.
35% sell-on fee would be a seriously good deal given the circumstances.
It’s a manipulation of terms that I don’t like. Suppose Sporting packaged the £18m over 2 years, does that mean we class it as £9m for this window.