Contract paid up ?But remember the fee isn't the only lever in the transaction. Let's say to facilitate the deal Gabby agreed he wouldn't insist on his final year being paid up by us.....we save something like £6m in wages (I think someone said he's on about £120k a week) so our net position is £51m. Now the opposite could also happen so we could've pushed for say £55m fee but Gabby insisted on his contract being paid up because we've asked for top dollar....our net position would be £49m.....£2m worse off. We as fans don't get to find out about the finer details of these deals so we shouldn't always assume a higher fee is a better result.