I'd imagine he'd go to whatever club offers the best personal terms, would there be a reason for a club to offer more than the release clause rather than putting money into a signing fee / wages / bonuses?

Still, a profit of £8mil is nothing to be sniffed at imo!

When MA says we are well protected, people forget we have owners who are fully backing the club and spending up to the PSR limit. Obviously the more profit we have the better, but we're limited by PSR anyway aren't we?

A few Squeaky Bums already - those thinking Relegation was just a hiccup !
It’s Eggshell treading time now - as to what lies ahead for the Club / Team.
RELEGATION is a DISASTER for the Club, make no mistake.
Interesting few months ahead, that’s for sure.

Well if someone at the club leaked what's in Ashtons contract they would be in a lot of trouble My actual job is PR and it's just journo speculating, if they say 30 mill that means they can say more clubs are after him so more fans click on their story, they are doing the same with Cunah and Isak and Mbeumo and Mateta, Sarah it's sell papers and directs people to their website. The only people who may be privy at some point to that info is Darmesh and the other 1 at Sky Sports News and until Fabio Romano knows none of us will.

Ashton seemed very confident in his interview that a really good deal for Delap was done.

It is possible it's 30 million as I believe it was 15 million with 5 in add ons for staying up so if that's the case as somebody else said Man City would most certainly buy back as whatever highest bid is they get 20% off and can sell hin themselves so it's okay for Town anyway.
I have a feeling it might be minimum 30 as I think Delap was bought with long term plan in mind like Omari, Jaden and JacknClarke, Greaves etc and his goal record wasn't amazing before at all before this year so maybe the club didn't anticipate even contemplating the sale.

I can't imagine one of the bigger clubs paying 30 to 40 mill just yet surely they would of scouted him before now and if Man City thought he was going to be next England number 1 would not of let him go so cheap. He isn't a world class striker yet by any stretch , he may just of bought into the idea of the plan, his friends and England colleagues are here and he is starman, we don't have to sell release clause only comes into play if he wants to go and a too move might be a step to far next season, which club would he be first choice striker who he is better than? So many players at Chelsea, I don't think Man Utdvstand a chance, Arsenal no, Newcastle can't see Isak going, Man City could buy him back loan him to European club.
So many scenarios but whatever happens doubling an investment in a year is good business . Defo get a good striker for 25 million wasn't they going to pay 22 mill for Latte?
I've never heard anyone say that their go to is the Guardian for their sports news before.

Ouch, struggles with concepts 30 million minus 20% is 24 million
10 x 3 is 30 - 30 - 3 is 27
30 - 6 is 24
dear me

Surely this would merely trigger an auction in which the starting bid would need to be £30m?

Release clause just means the club agree to let him go from that price if the player wants to or if the club wants to, after that Man City get first dibs and if they don't want to buy him back or he doesn't want to go back them a bidding war starts and Town can take best deal, Delap is their player on a 5 year deal, 30 mill is to say they will release him if a bid comes in from 30 mill but say it was West Ham activated the clause it doesn't mean they automatically get him, if that was case we can just ask Ed Sheeran to buy him, Once the release clause is triggered its open season, Al Hilal could come in and say we will give you 80 million Ipswich and Liam 10 million a year on 3 year deal, he would only be 26 and a multi millionaire, and before anyone says that's rubbish they done it with Ivan Toney and Jhon Duran, 3 years in sunshine, like of luxury, come back a multi millionaire, I doubt it but they could but I getfeeling Delap just likes playing football.
His Dad never took move to Man Utd.

If LD did go for £30m or even higher; Nottingham Forest would be a good move. Chris Wood is ageing plus Forest are likely to be in the Champions League. The rest of the so called suitors would damage him. But ideally we would like to keep him longer.

Correct @Terrystowell he is our player.

It's almost like a season long loan, but we make a profit at the end. We are lucky to have had him but also he is lucky to come to us and played under our coaching staff.

Some of the comments are unbelievable as usual.
If there is a release clause then that is the fee we’ll get. It will then be for the player to decide where he goes. The idea that clubs will bid above the release clause is the stuff of pure fantasy. But given who is making those comments it’s no surprise.

It's just the relegation that has messed it up. In fairness to the club, they probably felt it was highly unlikely that Delap would more than double in value at the same time as that (and others) not being enough to keep us up. A real killer though as staying up would have meant we were in control of the bidding (if he went) and we would have been in a very strong position with his long term deal. Sadly, the circumstances will cost us a crazy amount of money but such is life.

It's going to be a massive challenge next year. Hopefully the manager stays and the young players we've invested big money in will deliver on their promise and we can bounce back.

LeeJames99

Read the bit in brackets....

This thread demonstrates that a lot of people struggle with simple concepts! We are only going to get £27 million. £30 million less City’s 20% cut (just on the profit I hope rather than the whole amount).

Just to add confusion.
The Guardian is the only paper suggesting £30m. All the others have £40m.
So much for the Manchester paper !

Alot of people complaining about this release cause. But it’s likely that it was part of the deal to get him here. Had this clause not been in place then likely we’d never of signed him.

Does it really matter what he sold for. Probably wouldn’t have signed without some sort of release clause. We would be below Southampton without him.
Whatever the facts we get our money back plus some!

It's hard for clubs, CEOs & managers to win sometimes. Delap is one of the signings of the season; other clubs were in for him, but we got him, & he signed on a full contract for us despite being with Manchester City.
Nobody could have expected him to have done this well, this quickly, but nearly everyone in football was aware of his talent, potential & particularly coveted style of play. It was a coup getting him to sign for a club that was playing in League 1 just 15 months earlier, & were favourites for relegation. In those circumstances, we were not in the strongest negotiating position, regardless of Ashton's tough businessman reputation & McKenna's skills for developing players, not to mention our legendary training facilities.
Plenty of posters, myself included to a point, have been critical of the club's failure to land another senior striker during both the summer & January windows. We were prepared to sign Broja on loan with an OBLIGATION to buy in the event we stayed up, right up to the last minute when the medical showed up an issue that we felt required amending the deal for. Everton and/or Broja rejected our new proposed terms & the move collapsed, leaving us scrambling late on, and ultimately with only one fit striker (Delap) going into a Premier League season.
You can see how clubs end up doing some deals that they wouldn't necessarily have wanted to when the transfer window open.

So Rasmus Hojlund cost Man utd 72 Million, same age as Delap,we potentially will only make 9 million profit on Delap,taking into account the 20% sell on clause.
Whoever sold Hojlund played a master-stroke.
While if this report is true, we are virtually giving away England's next number 9. Astonishing !

Don't believe this left wing newspaper. It's full of lies just like that serial liar (although I prefer more fruity words to say about that c...) Keir Starmer.

Rootshall91 added 18:26 - Apr 9
"This thread demonstrates that a lot of people struggle with simple concepts! We are only going to get £27 million. £30 million less City’s 20% cut (just on the profit I hope rather than the whole amount)".

Where does it say anything about on the profit we make?

Read it: City are known to have included a 20 per cent sell-on in the deal (simple concepts).

Don't believe this else 'well protected' my a**se

Don't believe this else 'well protected' my a**se. Hope we've not had the 5m add on triggered

Phil1969 added 19:33 - Apr 9
"We would be below Southampton without him".

Oh that's great then but I would have preferred to be above Wolves.

Love the way everyone thinks Town will be selling all the players we brought this year when Town go down

These players have been brought for the future in mind, Town have these players on long contracts and as Ashton said Town are very very very well protracted and players will only be sold if the deal is right

Gsoly. Stop talking rubbish. How would it be bad management by Ashton? If, indeed the clause is £30m then the likelihood is, we wouldnt have got him had we not agreed to that. There has never been any suggestiin that there's a 10% clause for man city, neither, so why you are saying there is. Considering Ashtin wouldn't confirm anything about the clause when asked the other day, no1 bar those directly involved know what it actually is. Speculating about it is totally futile.