Alexis Sanchez
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It was pretty obvious they'd try this. We should value Sanchez any higher than £30million, they can pay the rest.
Surely this should be a fairly simple deal, Suarez has a release clause, and I'm assuming Sanchez does too. I'm guessing it will be about 40-50m + Sanchez for Suarez if it happens.
Yeah, but don't Spanish clubs have ridiculously inflated release clauses? Sanchez probably has a release clause of 150 million.
What's wrong with Bertrand exactly?
You know what, he'd probably sign and prove us all wrong, I just think he looks a bit.. average.
I guess you completely skipped Buddha's post above then ?
Hmmmm let me think. Maybe because Suarez wouldn't have signed his new contract if that was the case ?
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Yeah, but for his first contract, or any other player. We seem to put in reasonable buy out clauses most of the time, they don't in Spain.
Hopefully that will change. We need to wake up to this tactic.
In Spain it's mandatory to have a release clause in every contract I think. That's why they are so ridiculously high and don't really mean anything most of the time.
Quite. As the case with Suarez, if he had a £150m clause, it would be meaningless and it would probably give them more scope to drive the price down, whereas with something more realistic, it gives us something to hang onto.
Sorry Mark but that makes no sense at all to me. If we had a very high buyout clause then we would be the ones deciding if we want to hang on to him or not, if it's a lower figure that a team like Barca can meet then that decision is out of our hands if/when it's met.
He'd never sign a contract with a clause like that though
He might have done when we first signed him, but we'd never have considered he'd end up being worth this much at that stage.
It's hypothetical and obviously this is a new contract for an in-bound player (not talking about Suarez now).
Perhaps I should elaborate, it seems common practice in Spain to have high buyout clauses - everyone has one, so in that sense they do become redundant. If Sanchez comes to us for £30m, his (probable) extortionate clause has no real influence on that.
So, should we not have similar ridiculous buy out clauses, or not have one at all. To save us losing someone for less than they end up being worth?
Whilst that is of course true in many instances the point I'm making is that if there is a very high buyout and the selling club doesn't want to sell then that's pretty much it - we do occasionally see exactly this scenario in Spain when they say 'we want to keep Player X so meet the buyout clause or he stays'.
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