Paul Pogba

[M18CTID]

Best photoshop ever on this forum that was. Incidentally, does anyone know what happened to 100% Manc?

 

[Armaan]

Starting 11 ours or theirs now? Keeper - De gea over both ours. Defence - Neither are great but again probably them. Midfield - Gundogan is the best of the lot so we'd probably edge that. Attacking Midfield - us easy. Attack - Well we have Kun which is better than any of theirs tbf but if he gets injured all we have is a promising teenager. They have Ibra Rooney martial Rashford. Worried.

 

[west didsblue]

Media seem to have settled on £89m as the fee. The £20m+ to the agent seems to have been conveniently forgotten about.

Thanks to Brexit and the fall of the pound, it's cost them an extra £10m so every cloud...

 

[aguero93:20]

His last extension reduced his basic by quite a lot but put a higher ceiling in with bonuses.

Probably worked out as a 50% pay cut in that case.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

You can blow £100m on a player but you're still only as strong as your weakest Daley Blind

 

[adrianr]

Media seem to have settled on £89m as the fee. The £20m+ to the agent seems to have been conveniently forgotten about.

Thanks to Brexit and the fall of the pound, it's cost them an extra £10m so every cloud...

Knowing them the actual contract will probably get leaked and we can put their newest PR attempt to rest yet again.

 

[The_Maverick]

There is no such clause. United didn't sell him to Juve. He left at the end of his contract.

OK, kickback clause isn't the right expression.

What I was getting at is that when a player under the age of 24 has been offered a new contract by his club and they reject the offer to take up the opportunity to sign for another club, compensation is payable.

Quick search brought up a couple of examples.

• Anthony Straker joined Aldershot aged 18 having been released by Crystal Palace and went on to make in the region of 200 appearances in the Conference and League Two. He rejected a new contract, and aged 22 signed for Southend United on a two year deal.

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  Southend will also pay Aldershot 20% of any profit it makes from selling the player to another club at any point in the future.

• Robert Hall had signed a professional contract at West Ham aged 17, and made four first team league appearances for West Ham. He also enjoyed successful loan spells, including in particular at Birmingham City and represented England at under 16 through to under 19 level. Allowing his contract to expire, aged 20 he signed a three year contract at Bolton Wanderers.

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  20% of any profit made by Bolton Wanderers in selling the player to another club at any point in the future will be payable to West Ham.

• Aaron Creswell had made 70 or so league appearances for Tranmere Rovers when, aged 21, he rejected a new long term contract offer. He signed for the Championship club Ipswich Town on a three year contract

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  Tranmere Rovers are to receive 20% of any profit made by Ipswich Town in selling the player to another club at any point in the future.

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[GaudinoMotors]

You can blow £100m on a player but you're still only as strong as your weakest Daley Blind

We've still got Kolarov

 

[The_Maverick]

They got compensation to the tune of £800k due to his age.

That was at the time. Does it negate the sell on clause though as in the examples above?

 

[FanchesterCity]

The BBC peddling this crap:

They're making out 'he has really upped his assists' - when clearly he hasn't. It's almost bang in line with his number of appearances (unsurprisingly).
So where's the real improvement other than number of games played?

Don't get me wrong, he's clearly better than 5 years ago - but the BBC are over egging the pudding big time.