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Best post of the thread People have short memories Remember only last summer bracing ourselves and praying Dyche could keep us up whilst playing anti-football so those ‘best stadium in the championship’ jokes didn’t come true? Then worrying if...

I’ve heard what’s holding deals up is because these two haven’t vacated their lockers yet, once the lockers space frees up things will start moving. Make of that what you will

I find it baffling if it’s true. Honestly if I was in the negotiating room with the player I’d look him dead in the eye poker faced and say “what would you need that for?”. Utterly insane. Personally I think Doucoure just hasn’t found a new club...

When you are negotiating a 5 year contract (13M) that has a strong possibility of ending early if the player gets sold before the 5 years are up, I would not think you are too concerned about the pay being 1 month in arrears at the end of the...

I doubt Aznou starts until maybe the Carabao, possibly later. Bearing in mind he was at the CWC and I believe hadn’t even started a pre season with Bayern. Plus in general I think he’ll be a little way off being an immediate starter.

I think Doucoure is utter 💩💩 mate, so you'd get no argument from me there. But there will always be someone mad enough to do it! I'd also agree with you, but that's why I wouldn't be a good negotiator on football contracts, because my response...

Because a lot of free agents, particularly the ones anyone would notice, will get more money at the new club than they were earning at their previous club and therefore have no incentive to wait. As Dwight says, you don’t get both salaries if you...

The thing is if I was a club I’d just sort of refuse to put that in the contract. Is the player actually gonna walk away from the whole contract if they don’t get the month’s extra wages at the end of it? What a weird thing every way you slice it.

I genuinely thought this was quite a well known fact about crazy football contracts?

Clubs want to do whatever they can to get players to sign. When it is literally just one extra month's salary that most other clubs will offer anyway, it would make them seem stingy or unserious to player and agent. All just a scam really. Don't...

Ah didn't realise that rat was his agent

Greed.

I assume at some point it’s been a PFA thing. It makes sense in the overall context of the football pyramid, where much further down players are more likely to be let go than walk of their own volition. For those players it’s just a month’s grace...

It's a form of loyalty bonus that most agents insert into contracts these days as standard. Although, not every player will have them, just the majority. Effectively, the player waives it if they instantly sign elsewhere. Like I said, just...