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Mike Abram

Earnshaw was touted around...

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I think the Doncaster interview raises a number of interesting questions regarding Earnie''s transfer: 

"There were certainly no plans to sell Earnie and Dickson. However, we did strongly suspect that Earnie would go, particularly as he had a buy-out clause which operated throughout the month of June and we knew of his burning desire to play in the Premier League. That said, from first offer to actual transfer, the process took a matter of hours."

and

"In actual fact, we did contact a number of other clubs who had in the past expressed an interest in Earnie or who we thought might have an interest in him. No-one other than Derby was willing to pay anywhere near £3.5m."

1) Did the buy-out clause only operate in June (ie if we got into July without selling him, it would be null and void? And therefore any buyer would have to pay the real market value (probably nearer £5m)?

2) When did Norwich contact other clubs? We are told the transfer took only a matter of hours to complete - were we touting him around before then (and did that undermine point 1) or only in those few hours?

I thought this was interesting too:

When we have to agree buy-out clauses these are always structured in a way that incentivises the player and his agent to keep the clauses confidential. If players and agents choose not to do so, for whatever reason, this will actually be contrary to their best interests in most cases.

What incentives did Earnie have for not blabbing about the clause? I can''t see how it wasn''t in his best interests (unless there was a substantial financial penalty - but how would Norwich prove that). Surely if he wanted to go to Derby (ie Premiership), and knew he had a clause for June only, it would be in his interests to tell Derby about it? Otherwise his dream move to the Premiership might have been off if clubs had to "gamble" £5m on him?

 

 

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Whats the point? At the end of the day Earnie, Dickson and Saf have gone and thats the end of the story. Earnie is the only one I am particularly frustrated about but all of them had their motives and all of them had their faults.

MOVE ON!

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[quote user="Mike Abram"]

 

When we have to agree buy-out clauses these are always structured in a way that incentivises the player and his agent to keep the clauses confidential. If players and agents choose not to do so, for whatever reason, this will actually be contrary to their best interests in most cases.

 

 

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doesnt this smack of Naivety?

so if Chris Martin had a release clause and Man utd came knocking he wouldnt say to Fergie "its 2 million sir al" then would he?

Lets remember that Billy Davies had said publically that he had met Earnshaw at a wales game and said how he would like him to sign for Derby.

jas :) 

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