Has Fellaini really got a £22m buyout clause in his contract ?

[evertony]

Look....Luka Modric was hailed as 'World Class' not too long ago by many on here....and 6 months down the line he's been voted the biggest flop of a transfer in La Liga despite being sold for £33M.

Now thats good news all round.

If Felli is World Class we can reasonably expect > £33M, whereas if he's not World Class then surely we can expect a minumum of £33M. The lad is a better all round palyer than Modric....Modric is very good but one-dimensional (and has **** hair). Felli can play extremely well in a number of positions. A fee of +£33M would give the manager a decent opportunity to strengthen other areas of the team assuming he got +60% of the money.

Nobody knows if he has a buy-out clause so speculating what you've heard is just that....speculating. What is factual is that footballers, on the whole, have little allegiance to football clubs, and like the rest of us try to optimise their earning potential in any way they can, and if that means moving clubs then thats what they do. I'm suprised anybody is suprised that Fellaini may leave.....he's a footballer (top, top class in my humble opinion) and footballers leave football clubs. If he does, then its pertinently better to sell him at the peak of his value than at a later date.
Assuming he was £15M and he's been on say £70K a week for around 5 years we need to clear (purely by chance) ~ £33M to break even.

 

[Allezfan]

Assuming he was £15M and he's been on say £70K a week for around 5 years we need to clear (purely by chance) ~ £33M to break even.

If we sell him for 5 million we have, in my mind, broke even because of his performances on the pitch.

 

[Pabbers]

Look....Luka Modric was hailed as 'World Class' not too long ago by many on here....and 6 months down the line he's been voted the biggest flop of a transfer in La Liga despite being sold for £33M.

Now thats good news all round.

If Felli is World Class we can reasonably expect > £33M, whereas if he's not World Class then surely we can expect a minumum of £33M. The lad is a better all round palyer than Modric....Modric is very good but one-dimensional (and has **** hair). Felli can play extremely well in a number of positions. A fee of +£33M would give the manager a decent opportunity to strengthen other areas of the team assuming he got +60% of the money.

Nobody knows if he has a buy-out clause so speculating what you've heard is just that....speculating. What is factual is that footballers, on the whole, have little allegiance to football clubs, and like the rest of us try to optimise their earning potential in any way they can, and if that means moving clubs then thats what they do. I'm suprised anybody is suprised that Fellaini may leave.....he's a footballer (top, top class in my humble opinion) and footballers leave football clubs. If he does, then its pertinently better to sell him at the peak of his value than at a later date.
Assuming he was £15M and he's been on say £70K a week for around 5 years we need to clear (purely by chance) ~ £33M to break even.

LOLZ!

Thats not how this stuff works lad.

If we went into transfer discussions using others players, we will be laughed out of the room.

 

[Loz]

Look....Luka Modric was hailed as 'World Class' not too long ago by many on here....and 6 months down the line he's been voted the biggest flop of a transfer in La Liga despite being sold for £33M.

Now thats good news all round.

If Felli is World Class we can reasonably expect > £33M, whereas if he's not World Class then surely we can expect a minumum of £33M. The lad is a better all round palyer than Modric....Modric is very good but one-dimensional (and has **** hair). Felli can play extremely well in a number of positions. A fee of +£33M would give the manager a decent opportunity to strengthen other areas of the team assuming he got +60% of the money.

Nobody knows if he has a buy-out clause so speculating what you've heard is just that....speculating. What is factual is that footballers, on the whole, have little allegiance to football clubs, and like the rest of us try to optimise their earning potential in any way they can, and if that means moving clubs then thats what they do. I'm suprised anybody is suprised that Fellaini may leave.....he's a footballer (top, top class in my humble opinion) and footballers leave football clubs. If he does, then its pertinently better to sell him at the peak of his value than at a later date.
Assuming he was £15M and he's been on say £70K a week for around 5 years we need to clear (purely by chance) ~ £33M to break even.

Well, on that basis and even though I rate Fellaini as a pretty good player who fits into our system well, I would take £33m for him and buy Modric for half of that when he is off-loaded by his club.

 

[Bigmaclad]

No he hasn't

 

[Skeleton Crew]

...but think of all we could do with 30Mil?!!!

Those banks are salivating over this to be sure.

 

[mawders]

if the club do not come out and say there is no buy out clause, then I reckon that means there is a clause.

But lets face it, Felli said he would stay if we reach the CL...we are probably not going to do that, so he will be off. Can't really blame him for it either

 

[Saint Domingo]

Look....Luka Modric was hailed as 'World Class' not too long ago by many on here....and 6 months down the line he's been voted the biggest flop of a transfer in La Liga despite being sold for £33M.

Now thats good news all round.

If Felli is World Class we can reasonably expect > £33M, whereas if he's not World Class then surely we can expect a minumum of £33M. The lad is a better all round palyer than Modric....Modric is very good but one-dimensional (and has **** hair). Felli can play extremely well in a number of positions. A fee of +£33M would give the manager a decent opportunity to strengthen other areas of the team assuming he got +60% of the money.

Nobody knows if he has a buy-out clause so speculating what you've heard is just that....speculating. What is factual is that footballers, on the whole, have little allegiance to football clubs, and like the rest of us try to optimise their earning potential in any way they can, and if that means moving clubs then thats what they do. I'm suprised anybody is suprised that Fellaini may leave.....he's a footballer (top, top class in my humble opinion) and footballers leave football clubs. If he does, then its pertinently better to sell him at the peak of his value than at a later date.
Assuming he was £15M and he's been on say £70K a week for around 5 years we need to clear (purely by chance) ~ £33M to break even.

In my opinion Fellaini is nowhere near Modric as a player and that is why one plays for Real Madrid and one plays for us. Modric had everything as a central midfielder, pace, vision, craft, creativity and guile. Fellaini has none of those attributes. I hope for his sake he doesn't go to a mega club because I think he will only be found out. It took us ages....ages to get him to any sort of decent level for us. He's had a longer apprenticeship than any player I know. World class players don't need that. Moyes has built a team around getting the best out of his 15 million pound man. We play the formaiton we do so that Fellaini can play in the hole where his lack of pace and positional sense isn't found out. He can then use his touch and hold up play to bring better players into the game and hopefully get on the end of something they create. Fellaini can bully lesser midfielders in the prem (although obviously not against Leeds) if he's playing deep lying mid but against any team with any quality he's chasing shadows (as horribly showed in the cup semi when Charlie Adam and Lucas gave our midfield the run around, 6 months later and Osman, a proper centre mid, despite being partnered by Neville is dominating Gerrard and Allen at Goodison). I just can't see a top side building their team around him like Moyes has, I think people think he could just slot in at holding mid for any of the world's top sides but when you watch him play there he is positionally all over the shop. I hope one of the top sides are stupid enough to go for him in that position (although questions must be asked as to why they haven't already considering Lescott, Arteta, and Pienaar have all been sold whilst he's been here) because we'd then have a ridiculously overinflated 30 odd million to spend on some real world class players. Modric would be a start.

 

[steken1]

LOLZ!

Thats not how this stuff works lad.

If we went into transfer discussions using others players, we will be laughed out of the room.

Based on your extensive experience of negotiating transfers.

 

[Del]

Based on your extensive experience of negotiating transfers.

WHAT YOU TRYING TO SAY LAD

 

[Pabbers]

Based on your extensive experience of negotiating transfers.

Well obviously.....!

 

[Don_Johnson]

In my opinion Fellaini is nowhere near Modric as a player and that is why one plays for Real Madrid and one plays for us. Modric had everything as a central midfielder, pace, vision, craft, creativity and guile. Fellaini has none of those attributes. I hope for his sake he doesn't go to a mega club because I think he will only be found out. It took us ages....ages to get him to any sort of decent level for us. He's had a longer apprenticeship than any player I know. World class players don't need that. Moyes has built a team around getting the best out of his 15 million pound man. We play the formaiton we do so that Fellaini can play in the hole where his lack of pace and positional sense isn't found out. He can then use his touch and hold up play to bring better players into the game and hopefully get on the end of something they create. Fellaini can bully lesser midfielders in the prem (although obviously not against Leeds) if he's playing deep lying mid but against any team with any quality he's chasing shadows (as horribly showed in the cup semi when Charlie Adam and Lucas gave our midfield the run around, 6 months later and Osman, a proper centre mid, despite being partnered by Neville is dominating Gerrard and Allen at Goodison). I just can't see a top side building their team around him like Moyes has, I think people think he could just slot in at holding mid for any of the world's top sides but when you watch him play there he is positionally all over the shop. I hope one of the top sides are stupid enough to go for him in that position (although questions must be asked as to why they haven't already considering Lescott, Arteta, and Pienaar have all been sold whilst he's been here) because we'd then have a ridiculously overinflated 30 odd million to spend on some real world class players. Modric would be a start.

You're talking like the guy is 28+ years old. He's one of the most dominant forces in the premier league right now. If he can keep his head on straight, I can definitely see him playing for Madrid. I mean Pepe plays there and he's a nutcase(but also very very good)

 

[Dan Sylveste]

Is Fellaini going to Chelsea now in Jan?

I know the player himself has said he´ll stay at least until the summer but it won´t be the first time a player has blatantly lied. I think Arteta said something similar a month or so before going to Arsenal.

There seems to be genuine interest and intent from Chelsea. Abramovitch has obviously taken a shine to him and that´s understandable since the Belgian certainly provides the "thrill-factor" which has been a complex of the club as well as its owner ever since Mourinho destroyed the last Chelsea team actually worth watching.

I´ve been confident we´d manage to hang on to the player until the window closes in feb but reports in the papers the last couple of days have made me somewhat nervous.

What do you think?

 

[Goat]

Fellaini will not be sold in this window.

 

[Caveo]

If he HAS got a Clause in there for a poultry £22m , I will fume like never before *Drama Queen huff*