19 Sep 2020 17:09:58
Ed002- how do buy back clauses work? Is it limited to 1 year after the sale and is the price set beforehand? Or is it just 1st refusal should they want to sell? Cheers.

{Ed002's Note - The most common way is that for a fixed period, typically two or three years, the club will have the opportunity to match any offer made (if the player is to be sold) by another club and buy back the player if he agrees. Rarely, clubs have the opportunity to buy a player back at a fixed price when a player is put up for sale of a two or three year period (this is what Chelsea used with a couple of players although they later negotiated a deal which gives them a percentage of the sale). Finally there is a very uncommon variant of this where by the club have the opportunity to buy back the player at a fixed fee in year one, a different fixed fee in year two and another different fixed fee in year three if put up for sale. This was used by Barcelona when Romeu was sold.}

1.) 19 Sep 2020
19 Sep 2020 19:44:37
Brilliant thanks.

2.) 20 Sep 2020
20 Sep 2020 05:23:36
But don't we pay 99% of transfer fees that way. I still don't quite get our lack of funds completely. We were hit by the C.V. but economics are relative. The rest of the world literally suffered too. Oh well, who cares? Big names through the door. Was happy with our squad, now very confident.

{Ed0666's Note - that’s why we don’t worry ourselves with the minor details liKe finances Robbie. We leave it to the ladies and gentleman that went to school 😂