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Grenville Morris
Sure there is.
Knockaert cost Fulham £10m a mere 12 months ago and he signed a 4 year deal right?
That's £2.5m amortised.
There's no benefit to Fulham for loaning him for free considering he'd have had suitors elsewhere who would pay for him, either loan or permanent.
How much is harder to gauge but even a 50/50 split leaves Forest servicing a £1.25m loan fee plus whatever wages we're paying him which will be somewhere between £1m and £2m.
The idea that the loan is free is bollocks. We'll have ended up paying at least £2m all in in a best case scenario for Knockaert.
The only fly in the ointment of this argument is the “suitors elsewhere” bit. I would argue Fulham over paid for him big time (let’s face it we’re world experts on that) and the one thing you can say about making that sort of booboo is that other clubs aren’t going to put their hand in their pocket and help you out. So what you might like to get back and what is on offer are 2 different things. Into that throw what the payer wants, how much football they need etc etc and I don’t think you can reach the conclusion on cost that you have...