We gotta start acting like top clubs and sell players like Laird or Hannibal with buy-back options. They are not gonna get chances soon and deserve to play regular football, but we should secure an option to have them back if they make it big. Not saying we should do that with anyone though.
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Man, so that’s Laird and MG done. Never am I pinning hopes on academy products, these two were my dead certs.
MG in a footballing sense is a dead cert, I would struggle to think of a better player at the club. And he'll likely go out on loan.
Hope we have a buy-back for Laird.
Wow ... That came out of the blue.
Cue the dozen or so unhappy Laird fanboys who swear he’s Cafu in the making.
Another one who came up a lot in the "our squad next season" / "starting XI in five years" predictions over the last few years.
Any fee mentioned?
Do we ever have buy-back's for departing talents?
Yes, Iqbal.
This aged well
Do we ever have buy-back's for departing talents?
Iqbal.
Makes sense he was a long way off being ready for the first team and would only have been loaned out until his contract expired if he wasn’t sold.
Needs to show he can get past the injuries with regular footy
Anyone else before this past week?
Clubs like Real, Barcelona, etc, have been putting buy-back clauses into departing talent for more than a decade at least. I'd hate to think that Iqbal is the only example on record.
Who have we sold from the youth that we thought may have had potential to even bother putting a buy back clause in?
Glad the club has taken care of him and continues to show the jump between a nice talent but injured player, compared to a full international like Dalot and an improved AWB who has elite tackling/1v1.
Not that I remember. We had a sell-on clause for Zaha (we practically gave him back to Palace). So this is likely a new way of doing things, which is quite healthy.
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