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True. It’s would be great to live in a world where we bring through plenty of talent they become first team regulars and that’s the basis of our team but we don’t, how long do you stick with an academy player just in case they become good? Or as you say keep them on the books, hardly play them and hinder their development and future.
There comes a time where the club has to decide whether they are going to give a player that first team regular football or release the player, as hard as it is.
Or do what the big clubs do and put a buy back clause in. We are producing a lot of amazing talent for league 1 that then gets swallowed up by our rivals. I don’t know why we don’t do that more. Let’s say when we sold Dickie to Oxford we had put a 1 million buy back clause in we would not be looking at 5 million to get him back and him likely going to a rival.
Buyback clauses are not allowed. I believe you are allowed to have a clause allowing you to match any bid made but you can’t fix a price and a guarantee that you can be the buyer. You also have to factor in that there are 3 parties to a transfer and the player has to agree to move and agree terms so unless you have got them in on the deal it won’t happen. I can’t see many players agreeing that they could be forced to rejoin a club at some point for a preagreed wage.
Um. They totally are allowed and have to be for a set price not a "match the current offer". See Barcelona and Gérard Deulofeu.
Pretty sure only rule is price of buy back must be higher than price sold for.