Ange won't get another PL job without going elsewhere first imo. Chairman will judge the 17th not the trophy win
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Can you imagine forest playing ange ball?
Yer all the way down to league 2
Pray for your browser history
How do I unsee this?
possibly, although there’s been plenty of managers who have had bad seasons and got jobs again in the league. He finished 5th in his first season and won the EL in the second. It wasn’t a complete disaster. Also there’s probably a decent relationship between the pair which sometimes counts for more in football.
When you triggers a release clause, the player is yours if you pay that money. But that money has to be paid in one go.
Most transfers are not paid up front. They are paid in instalments over many years.
Tottenham are unlikely to want to pay 60m in one go and so they will have to negotiate the payment plan. Nottingham Forrest could refuse to cooperate unless we pay them more. If we are getting value from staggering payments then Forrest can ask for value in the form of a higher fee.
Forrest’s negotiating power is constrained as they have to offer a staggered deal which is more attractive to Tottenham than just paying the 60m up front. But the agent is correct to raise this as a likely outcome.
It’s still extremely advantageous for us because the 60m acts as an anchor, pulling down the eventual fee we will pay. If there were no release clause then Forrest would throw out a crazy figure - say 100m - and that would act as the anchor for negotiations.
This is from the telegraph stating that "Talks are ongoing between the two clubs".
It seems like multiple sources are saying the same thing, I'd imagine that they would find two sources before reporting on something. At the very least it would show we are at least trying to show beforehand that we were doing it correctly so I really doubt Forest will get anything out of it.
This is 100% happening
And if you think they don’t find some random way to beat us, you haven’t been a Spurs fan long enough
That's the rule in Spain (plus a mandate that every player must have a release clause of some amount, often comically high), but I've read that English release clauses sometimes have different payment structures included.
The commentary from the agent suggests this is unlikely even if it is of course possible.
We are over paying! 66.2m Euros is £57.21m
Try smashing your head against the wall for a few minutes.
Edit: Joke. Please don't
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I mean, it doesn't seem plausible to me that this is a matter of haggling over the payment structure after the fact.
There was a deal here. Then Fat Bastard swanned in and said there wasn't.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. You can really see that the transfer journo brigade aren't accustomed to reporting on this kind of story, they know as little as we do here.
The one thing that makes me less confident is seeing how Liverpool behaved after Woolwich triggered the Suarez clause. They basically refused to acknowledge it and he stayed.
"How about 60 million over 3 and we let you have this lovely Richarlison at a very nice price. Has set on the lot for a couple of seasons, hardly ever been driven."
The deal will go through for legal reasons.
Even the most optimistic employment lawyer would see that his contract clearly stated that they was a release caveat of sixty million pounds.
Ignorance by the club regarding that clause in his contract is no excuse irrespective of the amount of the release clause.
The fact that no one reviewed the players contract (or all players contracts which i bet is happening at Forest now) is down to the clubs secretary who must have signed off on the contract when the player, and agent signed the contract.
The waffle about what the player is worth is irrelevant, the crux of the matter is what is written on the contract, legal and agreed by all parties, which is was.
Forest and their fat twat of an owner will now possibly ask for the money up front, and this then will be down to Levy who i think somehow will overcome this.
Bottom line is the secretary at Forest witnessed and agreed to the terms in the contract which at the time, and when the player developed beyond their wildest dreams did nothing to change the contract.
Their incompetence is galling and no doubt someone will get for for that.
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The Suarez clause was just that the player be informed of a bid of that size, not a release clause. Or so it was reported.
The thing none of the reporting around this has denied is the existence of a 60M release clause in MGW's contract that can be validly triggered by Spurs. So long as THAT'S true, I don't really see how anything other than mere fear of litigation could stop us.
Ah - if you’re right about Suarez then I’m not at all concerned about this deal. It will go through.
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