If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? 13:38 - Oct 14 with 2450 views | Denny32 | I think if we are offered 50 million or more. Should be sold and 3 players at 20mill plus be brought in |  | | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:42 - Oct 14 with 2431 views | JakeITFC | Think if he continues to score goals (and ends up with 20 or so) I think he'd be off for a big fee regardless of our division. It's a market short of good strikers, so someone would definitely pay a good fee for him. |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:43 - Oct 14 with 2426 views | ElderGrizzly | If he scores at the level he is now, there is every chance he would be sold when/if we stay up. That's our model for financing the club going forwards. |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:44 - Oct 14 with 2403 views | _clive_baker_ | Don't think we'll be signing £20m players if we go down tbh. We've spent a lot and no doubt the wage bill is pretty high, I would imagine a couple would likely move on if we did go down, and there's a few that'll certainly want to keep playing in the top flight. Delap, Omari, Greaves, Davis probably the most likely suspects. You could take those 4 out and we would still have the core of a squad that should be competitive at that level though. Woolf, O'Shea, Tuanzebe, Taylor, Burns, Chaplin, Szmodics, Broadhead, Ogbene, Hirst. Presume we would look to add a CM or 2. Not happening though, we're staying up innit. First win Saturday against the Toffee's. |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:59 - Oct 14 with 2322 views | MattinLondon | If he continues to score and we stay up, he will probably be sold for £70 million plus - assuming there isn’t a big slump in fees or WW3 starts. If he continues to score but we go down then it’ll be around the £60 million plus add-ons. Based all this on the £55 million Dominic Solanke went for. Yes, he had a good season in the PL (and the season prior in the championship) but if Delano carries on scoring, he will be seen as a far better player. [Post edited 14 Oct 2024 13:59]
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City will buy him back.... on 14:01 - Oct 14 with 2278 views | Bloots | ....at whatever fee they have built into the original deal, probably £25m to £30m and then sell him on for £50+. Modern football's great isn't it??! |  |
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City will buy him back.... on 14:15 - Oct 14 with 2167 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
City will buy him back.... on 14:01 - Oct 14 by Bloots | ....at whatever fee they have built into the original deal, probably £25m to £30m and then sell him on for £50+. Modern football's great isn't it??! |
Rule of thumb for buy back clauses seems to be 2-3 times the purchase price. |  |
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If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 14:17 - Oct 14 with 2151 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:43 - Oct 14 by ElderGrizzly | If he scores at the level he is now, there is every chance he would be sold when/if we stay up. That's our model for financing the club going forwards. |
Thats every clubs model outside the big 6..... [Post edited 14 Oct 2024 14:17]
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If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 14:19 - Oct 14 with 2117 views | textbackup |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 13:59 - Oct 14 by MattinLondon | If he continues to score and we stay up, he will probably be sold for £70 million plus - assuming there isn’t a big slump in fees or WW3 starts. If he continues to score but we go down then it’ll be around the £60 million plus add-ons. Based all this on the £55 million Dominic Solanke went for. Yes, he had a good season in the PL (and the season prior in the championship) but if Delano carries on scoring, he will be seen as a far better player. [Post edited 14 Oct 2024 13:59]
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Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 14:22 - Oct 14 with 2090 views | Bloots |
City will buy him back.... on 14:15 - Oct 14 by Marshalls_Mullet | Rule of thumb for buy back clauses seems to be 2-3 times the purchase price. |
....although I think it's less than that. Villa ended up paying just £13m for Philogene. |  |
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Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 14:53 - Oct 14 with 1954 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 14:22 - Oct 14 by Bloots | ....although I think it's less than that. Villa ended up paying just £13m for Philogene. |
That's more than 2.5 x the original purchase price, even after their sell on % is discounted. |  |
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Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 15:25 - Oct 14 with 1851 views | itfc48 |
Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 14:53 - Oct 14 by Marshalls_Mullet | That's more than 2.5 x the original purchase price, even after their sell on % is discounted. |
Villa's was slightly different though wasn't it as they had 'matching rights' which means the sell-on gets factored in whereas I don't think the sell-on would be factored into a buyback as that's a fixed fee. |  | |  |
Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 16:14 - Oct 14 with 1668 views | ParisBlue |
Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 15:25 - Oct 14 by itfc48 | Villa's was slightly different though wasn't it as they had 'matching rights' which means the sell-on gets factored in whereas I don't think the sell-on would be factored into a buyback as that's a fixed fee. |
Correct, we triggered the matching rights clause by having an offer accepted by Hull. Villa had 3 days to "match" it which they did. Very different thing to a buy-back clause where the fee is specified. |  |
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Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 17:43 - Oct 14 with 1449 views | MattinLondon |
Yeah, £30m is twice the purchase price.... on 16:14 - Oct 14 by ParisBlue | Correct, we triggered the matching rights clause by having an offer accepted by Hull. Villa had 3 days to "match" it which they did. Very different thing to a buy-back clause where the fee is specified. |
By all accounts contracts which contain buy-back clauses can also contain cancellation clauses as well. For example, if the selling club insists on having a buy-back fee for £10 million - that fee can be cancelled if a third club offers [£15 million for example] a significant higher fee. This protects both the selling and buying club. Google is fantastic for sad individuals. |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 18:05 - Oct 14 with 1404 views | backwaywhen | Jeez it’s mid October….give ya head a wobble ffs . |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 18:07 - Oct 14 with 1396 views | MattinLondon |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 18:05 - Oct 14 by backwaywhen | Jeez it’s mid October….give ya head a wobble ffs . |
The OP was simply asking a hypothetical question. Didn’t see the harm in it myself. |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 18:10 - Oct 14 with 1393 views | SuperKieranMcKenna | If we do go down, and I don’t think we will - we aren’t going to have a net spend after selling Delap. Hypothetically if he’s sold for £50m a lot of that is going to cover wages etc for the loss of income. My understanding is you do not receive the parachute payment for the first year? |  | |  |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 20:15 - Oct 14 with 1242 views | ParisBlue |
If delap keeps scoring goals till end of season and we go down, will he be sold? on 18:10 - Oct 14 by SuperKieranMcKenna | If we do go down, and I don’t think we will - we aren’t going to have a net spend after selling Delap. Hypothetically if he’s sold for £50m a lot of that is going to cover wages etc for the loss of income. My understanding is you do not receive the parachute payment for the first year? |
Incorrect. If we go down this year we get 2 years parachute payments. If next year or after then it's 3 years of parachute payments. If 3 of Burnley, Sheff Utd, Luton and Leeds were to get promoted, the only parachute money sloshing around would be whichever team misses out from those 4 and the 3 relegated teams. |  |
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