Blade for Life
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Sounds like Villa are back in for Berge. They do have excellent financial backing so this could work. Southampton have told them Ward Prowse is going nowhere.
I find it hard to believe Berge's agent agreed to have a 35 million release clause inserted in his contract. It's been reported that SUFC was a stepping stone for him, the odds were we would be relegated the first year, we dodged the first bullet not the second.
Why would he agree to a clause that would hinder him jumping ship as soon as possible, doesn't make sense. He hasn't looked like a 35 mill player, his injury will be a factor until he actually plays some competitive football we won't know if he has recovered.
Hopefully somebody will part with some cash, but I'm sure there are players available out there who carry less risk at 35mill than Berge but football never surprises.
Do you think we'll get £35 million for Sander Longy? It would be excellent if we did but as much as i like him as a player and i do think he'll be a very good player at Premier League level i don't think we'll get £35 million.I do expect him to leave BDBL but i would love it if he stayed.UTBBerge turned us down at the beginning of the 2019/20 season assuming like most did that we would be relegated in the first season. Fast forward to JTW and we're flying high with talk of Europe and he signs. PA pays extra to get him in £22m instead of £17.5m as Gent wanted him to stay till the end of the season so he rightly protects his asset with a buy out clause as any sensible owner would. £45m in EPL dropping to £35m in EFL. There will also be a sell on percentage to pay to Gent. Buy out clauses are part and parcel of EPL contracts and as PA says others have them as well, Ramsdale and Brewster although his is a buy back option.
This will be the first real test of the owners resolve to ensure we get the price we are asking for unlike the previous buy 1 and get 1 free approach.
What is the release clause supposed to be for a player that cost £22 million ?
The usual McCabe type of deal....£1.5 million buys anybody ?
Do you think we'll get £35 million for Sander Longy? It would be excellent if we did but as much as i like him as a player and i do think he'll be a very good player at Premier League level i don't think we'll get £35 million.I do expect him to leave BDBL but i would love it if he stayed.UTB
I don't see a player or his agent agreeing to a 35 mill release clause at a team that had a fair chance of relegation. The 35 mill came from Yorkshire Live I can't recall anybody from the club confirming that as fact.
Apparently he wants to play at the highest level, it's only an opinion but I haven't seen enough from him to warrant that figure and the stats when he's played confirm that. I think the alleged fee and his injury will make clubs interested think twice at that figure. As I said football especially in the Premiership seems unaffected by the pandemic so we may get top dollar but it will be undisclosed anyway, maybe our accountants on S2 will uncover the fee in our future accounts. If he does have to stay hopefully he will get his head down prove his fitness and his talent will shine through and he might get a move in January.
We had no chance of relegation when he signed, in fact European football looked a real possibility.
The release clause might not be true,
But considering he hasn't gone yet, I feel that it probably is.
And why shouldn't it be,
He was an up and coming star, and whatever small time views our fans have £35 million is not excessive for a very young full international player.
If he was at Norwich or Bournemouth or Watford last season, that's what he'd have gone for.
If he was a Fulham player this season, that's what he'd have gone for
And if he was at Brentford in the Champuonship last season, that's what he'd have gone for.
Why is it that anybody who plays for us must be wank and not worth the going rate ?
Nobody said he was wank, but his performances have been hit and miss IMO, that maybe how we play or where we ask him to play, who knows. The main factor's will be his lack of games add a serious injury has he recovered from it plus the alleged asking price. That's never stopped Premiership clubs paying silly money so never say never.
All of which weren't known when/if he signed his contract with the release clause.
At the time, he was a young, extremely well thought of young international, and we were the new amazing team everybody was talking about.
£3.5m!
They wanted about £20m didn't they?!
See Rashica has gone to bloody Norwich too for £9m! WTF? Really missed his moment last summer it seems.