If the NCFC board had been clever.

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

Couldn''t they have organised their business strategy to get clubs to bid up the Earnshaw price - and sell to th highest bidder?

I doubt if the contract clause said that we had to sell him to the first club to offer 3.5m.

Just asking?

Clever Roger?

Come on, clarify this, Neil.

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[Mr_Chimp 0]

You think that if his release clause became common knowledge, we would still stand to gain from an auction?Sorry but if it was common knowledge all the offers would have been based around the wage/incentives, surely?

[7rew 0]

The contract clause would have said we had to agree to sell him to any club (or accept any offer) of over £3.5 million.Unfortunately a bidding war wouldn''t work as we would have to accept every offer of over £3.5 million.  Our only chance would have been to get an initial bid of over £3.5 million. Earnies agent thoroughly put paid to that. [:(]my thoughts on how to do this are:1) We hint privately to another Championship team at the existance of such a clause for around 4mill.2) They put in a bid of 4mill ish.3) We reject bid as they are not near the release clause.4) premiership team bids slightly more and we accept.or course this would depend on the agent not balbbing to all and sundry.

[BlyBlyBabes 0]

Surely our lawyer man/chief executive could have sent back the Derby bid for clarification; or been out of office for a couple of days; or..........  - whilst we tipped off other potentially interested parties (there must have been other prior enquiries, mustn''t there??).

Seems our lot don''t play poker.

Or aren''t very clever.

It''s a hard world out there, and when the going gets tough the tough get going.

No, they took the easy option of grabbing the money quick.

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