Confimred - Bindon to Nottingham Forest

[Snowflake Royal]

Yeah, but any argument unpicking our sell-on clause might then be used against Forest to unpick sell-on clauses of their own, so it might not actually be to their benefit.

Not sure it’s a case of an ‘arguement’. It would just be a fact. Obviously all contract negotiations are games of chess and I was just wondering whether this might be a situation where we get out manoeuvred.
In the infamous Murty scenario we tried to argue a point where under the semantics of a contract we weren’t due to pay an additional sum. That was rejected, and so might my thought. But it does appear a risk that no amount of thoughts about unrelated scenarios has alieviated

Think biggest protection is pure practicalities. If Bindon is a success at Forest and someone like Arsenal comes calling for £50m in 3 years time, they will want to buy him there and then, without him going via Olympiacos for 6 months.

Would say this is a pretty obvious flaw in the cynic view, and spot on.

[Hound]

I strongly suspect the multi club ownership and sell on fee issue has come up many times previously and any loophole there has been investigated

I think it’s basically fraud isn’t it in sporting terms? Selling someone for under their value to avoid a sell on fee

And as said above, the player and agent could just say no knowing that they were taking part in this and almost certainly would