Confimred - Bindon to Nottingham Forest

[Snowflake Royal]

Yeah, but any argument unpicking our sell-on clause might then be used against Forest to unpick sell-on clauses of their own, so it might not actually be to their benefit.

Not sure it’s a case of an ‘arguement’. It would just be a fact. Obviously all contract negotiations are games of chess and I was just wondering whether this might be a situation where we get out manoeuvred.
In the infamous Murty scenario we tried to argue a point where under the semantics of a contract we weren’t due to pay an additional sum. That was rejected, and so might my thought. But it does appear a risk that no amount of thoughts about unrelated scenarios has alieviated

Think biggest protection is pure practicalities. If Bindon is a success at Forest and someone like Arsenal comes calling for £50m in 3 years time, they will want to buy him there and then, without him going via Olympiacos for 6 months.

Would say this is a pretty obvious flaw in the cynic view, and spot on.

[Hound]

I strongly suspect the multi club ownership and sell on fee issue has come up many times previously and any loophole there has been investigated

I think it’s basically fraud isn’t it in sporting terms? Selling someone for under their value to avoid a sell on fee

And as said above, the player and agent could just say no knowing that they were taking part in this and almost certainly would

[RG30]

Nominated for EFL League 1 Young Player of the Season.

[Mr Angry]

Well deserved.

1 question; would his loan period include the Play Offs?

[RoyalBlue]

Yeah, but any argument unpicking our sell-on clause might then be used against Forest to unpick sell-on clauses of their own, so it might not actually be to their benefit.

Not sure it’s a case of an ‘arguement’. It would just be a fact. Obviously all contract negotiations are games of chess and I was just wondering whether this might be a situation where we get out manoeuvred.
In the infamous Murty scenario we tried to argue a point where under the semantics of a contract we weren’t due to pay an additional sum. That was rejected, and so might my thought. But it does appear a risk that no amount of thoughts about unrelated scenarios has alieviated

At the risk of going slightly off topic, who was CEO at the time we tried to wriggle out of our liability to pay the additional sum? Was it Howe? If so, he seems to me to have a bit of a tendency towards indulging in what some might feel is shady business practice.

[Sutekh]

Well deserved.

1 question; would his loan period include the Play Offs?

Depends whether the loan agreement specifies a specific end date or just states until the end of the season. If it says until 3 May at the moment I don’t think there’d be a problem to extend it to the end of May (unless the club has been suspended of course).