Bale

[Aardvark]

According to yesterday's (ever reliable!) Echo, Barcelona are sniffing round Gareth Bale - a figure of £50,000,000 was mentioned. Ignoring the possible merits or otherwise of this story, does anyone know whether Southampton would benefit from any sell on clause from such a move?

[S-Clarke]

According to yesterday's (ever reliable!) Echo, Barcelona are sniffing round Gareth Bale - a figure of £50,000,000 was mentioned. Ignoring the possible merits or otherwise of this story, does anyone know whether Southampton would benefit from any sell on clause from such a move?

 

Unfortunately by taking Forecast and settling early we forfeited any potential % of sale clause.

[beatlesaint]

I cant recall if we did a deal with Spurs like we did with Arsenal over Walcott when we had our money troubles.

If we did then there is every chance any sell on clause would have been made null and void.

[S-Clarke]

I cant recall if we did a deal with Spurs like we did with Arsenal over Walcott when we had our money troubles.

If we did then there is every chance any sell on clause would have been made null and void.

 

We did, we settled early with Spurs as well as Arse. At least we got forecast though

 

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[Saint Martini]

That was for the sell-on percentage. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't we still get the fee for Bale playing for us when he was between 12 and 18?

[Evil Monkey]

50m?? Christ. They could nearly afford Richard Chaplow for that kind of money.

[Saint Stimp]

Unfortunately by taking Forecast and settling early we forfeited any potential % of sale clause.

 

If it was a 25% sell on clause Forecast could end up costing us £12,500,000. Ouch.

[Aardvark]

50m?? Christ. They could nearly afford Richard Chaplow for that kind of money.

 

Calm down, I made it quite clear that this story was in the Echo!

[mdearlove]

Wonder if we have a sell on clause for Nathan Dyer - Liverpool eyeing him up apparently

[bender]

Wonder if we have a sell on clause for Nathan Dyer - Liverpool eyeing him up apparently

 

Do they fancy him then?

[Channon's Sideburns]

Wonder if we have a sell on clause for Nathan Dyer - Liverpool eyeing him up apparently

 

Have they seen him play?

[stardustonmyfeet]

Have they seen him play?

Yes.

[Huntingdon]

I don't think there's any sell on clauses for Bale or Dyer

 

It's clear we were making some truly appalling decisions in our final season leading up to administration.

I'd like to know who was responsible for sacrificing Bale's future add-ons in exchange for Forecast. Was it purely Rupert, or were others involved?

 

Whoever agreed to it should be ashamed of themselves, it was an absolutely terrible decision

[krissyboy31]

Wonder if we have a sell on clause for Nathan Dyer - Liverpool eyeing him up apparently

 

What the football club or a Norris Green skally gang?

[Fan The Flames]

I don't think there's any sell on clauses for Bale or Dyer

 

It's clear we were making some truly appalling decisions in our final season leading up to administration.

I'd like to know who was responsible for sacrificing Bale's future add-ons in exchange for Forecast. Was it purely Rupert, or were others involved?

 

Whoever agreed to it should be ashamed of themselves, it was an absolutely terrible decision

 

What are the chances someone got a fat Christmas card from Spurs that year. Not saying its true of course.

[DanW]

If you trust Football Manager's accuracy...

in my FM2010 game (I'm a few years behind, I know) when Bale got sold we received 10%.

[sandwichsaint]

I don't think there's any sell on clauses for Bale or Dyer

 

It's clear we were making some truly appalling decisions in our final season leading up to administration.

I'd like to know who was responsible for sacrificing Bale's future add-ons in exchange for Forecast. Was it purely Rupert, or were others involved?

 

Whoever agreed to it should be ashamed of themselves, it was an absolutely terrible decision

 

Don't talk wet, we were bent over a barrel with our wrists cuffed to our ankles.

 

I for one am very glad of that decision, we kept trading, we kept our heads above water, and we got ourselves into a position where our saviour stepped up at the 11th minute of the 11th hour.

 

I've never looked back since then and I don't think you should either.

[Micky]

Don't talk wet, we were bent over a barrel with our wrists cuffed to our ankles.

 

I for one am very glad of that decision, we kept trading, we kept our heads above water, and we got ourselves into a position where our saviour stepped up at the 11th minute of the 11th hour.

 

I've never looked back since then and I don't think you should either.

 

This. We did what we had to do. To say that we made appalling decisions is easy now - try making those same decissions when the writing was on the wall - not now we have a wealthy benifactor.