Missed transfer payment

[Channon's Sideburns]

So we are expected to get all our youth players for nothing? Now there is a very clever strategy that guarantees the form of quality your posts exhibit.

 

Ooooh touched a nerve eh?

 

Just merely pointing out that when Lowe bleats about players being picked up from us, and how wonderful our academy is and how the players from it are mostly down to him.....

 

He always glazes over the fact that players like Walcott, Lallana and McGoldrick were brought in from other clubs....and the 'Academy' didn't actually bring them through..

[um pahars]

Would be interested to know what the payment was for, but I can't believe it is as much as 400,000.

 

He's notched up 42 appearances for us (57 if you include subs) so maybe it's based on a 40 or 50 milestone.

 

If it is an appearance based payment, then it makes the decision to go with McGoldrick, (and then persevere with him), a very interesting one as it puts a different perspective on his bucks per goal (particularly when compared against others we shipped out) !!!!

[hughieslastminutegoal]

Apologies for being very stupid but what am I missing here? How can we still owe them £400,000 for a player we took to our academy 4 years ago? Surely we didn't buy him for that much in the first place did we? An unknown 16/17 year old from Notts County?

 

Or was a fee based on future first team performances? If it's based on goals scored we're paying about £40,000 per goal and even on appearances it's about £10k a game!? And that's assuming we haven't paid them anything yet.

 

Sorry, it's early and I can't get my head round this one.

 

Hmm let me get this right --- we loan out experienced goal scorers because we can't afford to pay them... and play a youngster instead because its cheap... only to find we have £400k to pay because of 1st team appearances?

[SaintRobbie]

If we're not paying ours dues then what club will deal with us in terms of giving us loanee players?

[Channon's Sideburns]

If we're not paying ours dues then what club will deal with us in terms of giving us loanee players?

 

Well I think that was what the Wotte article in the Pink was about - more smoke and mirrors, but that is probably the real reason he can't bring anyone in, he's just not allowed to say so.