I understood what you wrote, I just dont understand how it makes sense. We pay the release clause when we buy players all the time, and it has never hurt our relationship with the club we have been buying from before, so why would it now? Why on earth would a club, that has given a player a release clause, be upset at any club who might activate it? Are River runned by 6 year old kids or what?
There is nothing that suggests paying the release clause would hurt our relationship with River, its rather insane to even think it would. + Even if this would happen in some kind of imaginary dreamland, we have not bought a single player from River (from what I can remeber at least) so I think we would do alright without them.