It has been reported that MAN CITY will get £15m+ if Sancho goes to MAN UTD for the £108m that is currently being quoted as his selling price as they have a 15% sell on clause. How much did we get when City stole him from us all those years ago for a pittance? Do we have any sort of clause that means we get something out of the current proposed sale as well, I doubt it?
Nothing at all apart from the paltry compensation fee when they stole him. It just highlights how the laws of the game are organized by a select group of clubs to channel ever more resources and finances to themselves. Had we kept hold of Sancho as Brum did with Bellingham a sum of £20M would not have been out of the question. We have been left sorely out of pocket by the Abu Dhabi scum.
Hopefully we'll get the chance to get our own back by humiliating them in front of the whole world in a high profile cup final.
We can’t blame an individual club for playing the system, much as Watford have done in the past. However, it is these clubs collectively (along with some in other countries) who have conspired to weight everything hugely in their favour and it is the football authorities who have shamefully allowed it to happen.
Not much teams like ours can do against sovereign states. Just ask the teams in Ligue Une. Might as well let PSG play PSG reserves. It would be just as exciting. Amazing to see how many bandwagoners have jumped onto Abu Dhabi's coat tails in the last few seasons. All of them without thick Mancunian accents. Funnily enough they used to mock the Salford mob for having more fans in London than Manchester but don't seem to see the irony now. Hopefully one day the bubble bursts.
I think we got something around £150,000 (paid fully in pennies) and we should be grateful our betters saw fit to throw any spare change our way. The deal included add-ons which could have taken the total sum Watford received towards £500,000 but as he achieved nothing in a senior team shirt I doubt we saw any of that. There was also a 10% sell on fee we didn't profit from either. https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ws/man-city-sign-14-year-old-prospect-8798045 https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...er-city-fa-investigation-jadon-sancho-watford
Bloody robbery, can big teams still do that sort of thing these days? Because I believe back then there was nothing a small team could do to stop what a big team like City did. I think it was allowed in the rules of the game that big clubs could walk into smaller clubs and entice their youngsters away with big money offers directly to them or their parents and cut out the smaller clubs entirely and those clubs could do nothing stop them.
You're perfectly correct. For some reason I had it in mind he went for a nominal fee and didn't check when I posted.
