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Grenville Morris
Canadian_red said:
Release clauses are pretty much part and parcel these days aren't they? I don't think it symbolizes Brennan being greedy or what have you. Maybe I'm wrong.

It's in our interest to negotiate as high a release clause as possible obviously (if there is one) but if we take the lump it or leave it approach, then we probably get 15 to 20 million tops now and lose one of our best players. I don't think we could offer terms good enough for him and his agent to forego a release clause, or to agree to an intensely high one.

Maybe I'm being pessimistic but we aren't in a position to play hard ball.
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Well by this reckoning we're never going to be
Rzarecteh said:
They don’t

You very rarely hear about release clauses being met in the Prem because hardly any players have them. It will often only be relegation clauses.

It’s a legal requirement to have them in Spain & Italy so it’s more common there.
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But the thing is the Spanish clauses are set so ridiculously high that they are clearly not designed to allow a players agent to casually unpick the employment contract just because they fancy it. Thats really my problem with the situation we find ourselves in-if we set Brennans release at 25M we may as well not have a contract at all and if we are going to have arbitrary releases from a contract of law why not build in something that says the club can cancel a contract if a player fails to make themselves available for a certain number of games (i.e. if they get a long term injury)?. Thats never going to happen and neither should it, contracts should cut both ways....
 
Green Jumper

Green Jumper

"Nottingham Forest Are Premier League"
In a world where you want 50m, do you:
a) take 20m now and feel regret,
b) invest a decent amount toward potentially getting a 100m payday alongside that same 20m in future,
c) spend nothing and get nothing in the future.

The option chosen will likely be the one with the greatest potential revenue. That option also has the added advantage of effectively saying that ambitious young players are welcome to progress their careers at Forest.I

This one is pretty special already, but there will be others.
 
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Green Jumper said:
In a world where you want 50m, do you:
a) take 20m now and feel regret,
b) invest a decent amount toward potentially getting a 100m payday alongside that same 20m in future,
c) spend nothing and get nothing in the future.

The option chosen will likely be the one with the greatest potential revenue. That option also has the added advantage of effectively saying that ambitious young players are welcome to progress their careers at Forest.I

This one is pretty special already, but there will be others.
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I honestly don't know what point you are trying to make here.
I suspect you are implying route b) is the way to go, and it would be if it weren't for a release clause that means you do all of the investment bit you talk about and then find your "100M payday" doesn't exist because the player can go for 25M....

I've been thinking over why I'm so cross about Brennan and the release issue, particularly when Haarland has just gone for 50M on an activated release to Man City (which is probably the equivalent of us getting 10 for Brennan)...The difference there is Dortmund didn't develop the player-he came to them as the next great thing having already shown he could score buckets. All they had to do was put him in the team and he carried along the exact same trajectory he was already following. If anyone should be upset its his Norwegian side that developed him or Salzburg who probably did take a bit of a risk on him. We've had Brennan since he was 8 and he is where he is because of the club. In the same way I wouldn't expect Man U to give away Garner at below market value to us given the huge effort they will have made with him and his development I don't think Brennan should expect a contract that shafts NFFC.
 
Rzar

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Bob McKinlay
BryanRoy22 said:
Just a brilliant player. We cannot lose him. Pure Premier League class.
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Are you watching the Wales game Bryan?

He has been Wales best player by a mile. Just had a run past De Jong, De Vrij & De Ligt and left them all in his dust.

The boy is ready, no doubt about that. We need to get that contract sorted before he's worth £50m.
 
BryanRoy22

BryanRoy22

Ian Bowyer
Rzarecteh said:
Are you watching the Wales game Bryan?

He has been Wales best player by a mile. Just had a run past De Jong, De Vrij & De Ligt and left them all in his dust.

The boy is ready, no doubt about that. We need to get that contract sorted before he's worth £50m.
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Always knew he was ready. People were telling me to shut up about him when he was at Lincoln on loan and I was saying he was the next best thing.

Now all those friends are saying 'Yeah, fair play' :D
 
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BryanRoy22 said:
Always knew he was ready. People were telling me to shut up about him when he was at Lincoln on loan and I was saying he was the next best thing.

Now all those friends are saying 'Yeah, fair play' :D
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Except for he needed the time at Lincoln to develop. The year before that he very definitely was not ready...
 
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First Team Squad
Getting pen to paper on a new contract for Brennan HAS to be the priority business. Far more important than incoming transfers. This kid is developing rapidly with every game, and is now doing it in internationals against very good countries.
 
Rockabilly

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GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
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valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
I used to look around at young players with other clubs and wish we had classy players like that.

Now we do; it's great to glory in his success, but galling to know that he might only be with our club for a short time more.

I agree with the consensus, priority signing this close season. Him and a free-scoring CF will make me happy.
 
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Rzarecteh said:
The £20,000,000 £180,000,000 decision, and the best one that's been made for decades.

They set the asking price, it was met - but they still rejected it. That was a brave decision which has seen us not look back ever since.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1486462100146991117
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Yes it was brave, and under the circumstances it proved wise. But they have to get him to sign a new contract now without a ridiculous release or the whole bloody thing will be boiling up again....
 
Heffing Psycho!

Heffing Psycho!

Steve Chettle
That Manchester United fan site which that Golbridge bloke runs have done an article saying United have "explored" signing Johnson and were told it'd cost £30-40m and that Forest don't want to sell.
 
Redemption

Redemption

One less gobshite...
Heffing Psycho! said:
That Manchester United fan site which that Golbridge bloke runs have done an article saying United have "explored" signing Johnson and were told it'd cost £30-40m and that Forest don't want to sell.
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Why would Forest, who don't want to sell, tell them it would cost £30-40m ?
 
Barry

Barry

Where's me hammer?
Why would you go to Man United at this point? They literally need to spend a billion to get to where they think they should be


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DapperDan

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Steve Chettle
Barry said:
Why would you go to Man United at this point? They literally need to spend a billion to get to where they think they should be


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They pay Fred £120k a week. Imagine that as a wage bargaining tool.
 
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