James Bond
Moderation Consultant
Another Gnabry, I'm not saying that with hindsight either it was patently obvious after about 5 minutes of that Emirates Cup appearance that he was quality.
Even then we could have inserted a buy back clause to cover ourselves like we did with Vela.
You would have thought with that clause getting us £12m or whatever it was for doing the square root of nothing we'd have done it again.
We never take up by back clauses anyways as Cesc, Vela, and Bennacer showed.
Sell on clauses are getting kind of annoying now btw. United’s 25% tax ****ed us on the Zaha deal and we had to bend over and accept one in Tierney’s transfer.
It is somewhat understandable with tiny clubs selling their only prized asset, but now bigger clubs are getting wise to both cash in now / cut their losses while covering their asses. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate the extra windfall of money that came into AFC during this cash strapped window, but imo they really shouldnt be allowed as they seem bit 3rd party ownership-esque. If you choose to transfer/sell a player then what they do and where they go afterwards shouldn’t matter as honestly what stops clubs from putting sell on clauses in every transfer out?