It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

At the end of the day if the clause did exist, he'd have to be phenomenal for us for someone to come in and pay €200m. Apparently De Ligt (another Raiola client) has one for €120m kicking in this summer but nobody is talking about that because he hasn't been good enough for someone to pay it.

If someone is coming in a few years down the road and paying €200m for him then he's probably won the Balon D'or with us.
No matter how good De Ligt had been, no one would pay that, period, and it’s the same here. The clause would only help in negotiating wages. But Raiola is gone. For all we know, we could negotiate a new contract next year with an extension and without a clause IF there is one at all.
 
Ibra moved around because he’s so insufferable he made the environment around him at every club so toxic he had no choice but to go after a few years
Blasphemy! :-)

He left..
Malmö to play internationaly
Ajax for a better/bigger league
Juventus because he didn't want to play in Serie B ("calciopoli" )
Inter to have a chance to win the CL (ironically)
Barcelona because he, just like Icaros, flew to close to the sun <-- I'll give you this one, Gus
Milan, together with Tiago Silva, because the club needed the money
PSG wanted to rejuvenate
United since his body couldn't cope with the highest level anymore, at least that's what he thought
LA to get back

Great player. A proven (league) winner, but never a player to rely on in knock-out stages. Sure, at times his ego got to him, but don't rewrite history.
 
The only real issue is if he wants to leave at some point. And if he does then I don't think it'd have mattered too much if there's a release clause.

And if he doesn't want to go he just signs an extension
 


If City are comfortable with it, it’s fine with me. It sounds like it’s an amount that would be substantial if Erling does want to leave via the clause. Inserting the release probably helped us keep his wages within our wage structure and the agent fees reasonable. It’s good for both parties, imo. With that said, he technically isn’t a City player yet, we shouldn’t be thinking about him leaving when he hasn’t even worn the shirt yet. Lets live in the moment. Happy 93:20 Day!!!
 
In a post-covid world, can anyone even afford to pay €200,000,000 / £170,000,000 for a player?

Bearing in mind it's a release clause, so 100% is due up front.

PSG are the only club in the world who can pay that IMO. Barcelona and Bayern Munich certainly can't.

Real Madrid are the obvious "threat" but the last time Perez spent €150m on someone it was Hazard and he's been a complete failure.
Not really, the club can take payment how they like
 
Not really, the club can take payment how they like

A release clause has to be paid in full unless the selling club decides to do the buyer a favour, and I don't see why we would.

The more you think about the economics of buying 24 year old Haaland for €200m the more you realise it's very unlikely to happen.

€200m fee, probably another €50m agents fees and signing bonuses, then a contract of €50m/year minimum.

That's on top of the €50m/year Mbappe will be getting, and whatever Vinicius is asking for if he keeps playing as well as he has this season.

Real's wage bill in 2021 was €370m. Even for them, adding €100m a year to that by 2024 is bad management.
 
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