The Liam Delap transfer (12 replies)
Delap left Man City for £15m-£20m and had a £30m "relegation clause" release term in his contract - and Man City get 30% of the profit.
It sounds a bit of a daft thing for Ipswich to agree to on hindsight until you read this interview with Ipswich chairman Mark Ashton.
It's relevant because I can imagine this is the sort of pressure Blues will come under as we become more succesful
article here >>>>> [www.eadt.co.uk]
""Let's be really clear, when you are signing players from a Premier League football club as a newly-promoted Premier League football club, young or old, they're very nervous about being stuck in a Championship club. Because the stats show that newly promoted clubs often go straight back down. So the contracts are always heavily negotiated.
"The reality is that when there’s a high profile player who is wanted by several clubs you get presented with a term sheet – ‘those are the terms for the club’ and ‘those are the terms for the player’.
"You're told, 'If you want to talk to the player and give your pitch to sign him you have to agree to those terms because if you don't then there are six other clubs who will agree'. We speak to other clubs, we know the market, so we know that that's not lies.
"So there is very little to negotiate. You're taking it or you're leaving it.
"At that point, our relations allow us to nibble around the edges of those agreements, to bend and twist them, so we get the best version of it.
"That’s just fact. That’s just the reality of where you are. You've gone from being a big fish in a small to medium pond, to being a big fish in the Atlantic Ocean."
It sounds a bit of a daft thing for Ipswich to agree to on hindsight until you read this interview with Ipswich chairman Mark Ashton.
It's relevant because I can imagine this is the sort of pressure Blues will come under as we become more succesful
article here >>>>> [www.eadt.co.uk]
""Let's be really clear, when you are signing players from a Premier League football club as a newly-promoted Premier League football club, young or old, they're very nervous about being stuck in a Championship club. Because the stats show that newly promoted clubs often go straight back down. So the contracts are always heavily negotiated.
"The reality is that when there’s a high profile player who is wanted by several clubs you get presented with a term sheet – ‘those are the terms for the club’ and ‘those are the terms for the player’.
"You're told, 'If you want to talk to the player and give your pitch to sign him you have to agree to those terms because if you don't then there are six other clubs who will agree'. We speak to other clubs, we know the market, so we know that that's not lies.
"So there is very little to negotiate. You're taking it or you're leaving it.
"At that point, our relations allow us to nibble around the edges of those agreements, to bend and twist them, so we get the best version of it.
"That’s just fact. That’s just the reality of where you are. You've gone from being a big fish in a small to medium pond, to being a big fish in the Atlantic Ocean."