Madrid are preparing a £95m bid for Rooney

See as you say that, how come Spanish clubs always insert one in their players contracts regardless who they are?

I say its scaremongering by some media sites to enable them to link us to every striker going
As far as I know, Spanish clubs are by law forced to add a buy-out clause in every contract.
 
£95m for Rooney. Honestly, that would be even funnier than Carroll going for £35m.
 
not always, it depends on the bargaining power of the involved parties

Imagine this scenario: a club from an average league wins promotion to the Champions League. they have a important player which they want to keep due to European games. the player has a few months left on his current contract. if any club bids for him, he could leave but he may also think that playing for that club in the European competition would promote him and allow him to leave for the better club. so what he does is that he signs a big contract with a relatively small buy-out clause to when his team gets knocked-out from Europe he can leave the club whenever he wants (providing that anybody wants him). If he stays he's left with a big contract. This happened a few times in Poland you know.

Now, how this could apply to Rooney.

Fergie made it clear that for some reason he wanted to keep Rooney. Rooney might have actually wanted to leave but he figured it out that announcing that during the Rooney-gate would left him play either in reserves or watching games from the stands. he also was cup-tied at that time so his negotiations position would be weaker.

Fergie didn't want to unsettled the team during the season so he offers Rooney a big contract. Rooney doesn't know if he is going to stay or not nor did he want to leave during the season so despite getting a big contract he includes the buy-out clause so he is independent from United's will. Imo he had all the cards during these autumn negotiations.


to sum it up: United are left with world-class striker at least until the end of the season and will recoup at least 25 mil should Rooney leave. Rooney gets a big contract with a relatively small buy-out clause. Win -win.

I wouldn't rule out the existence of 25 mil buy out clause

Edit: imo this vey low 25 mil buy-out would justify the 200 k per week contract. these insane amount of money is a counterweight so Rooney doesn't leave to early or there are only few bidders ready offer him similar terms. i bet Rooney knows that.

Wouldn't make any sense for the club though who also have to agree to the clause.

If Rooney really wanted to go, he would just tell clubs about the clause and someone would activate it immediately.

Story is clearly bollocks
 
Wouldn't make any sense for the club though who also have to agree to the clause.

If Rooney really wanted to go, he would just tell clubs about the clause and someone would activate it immediately.

Story is clearly bollocks

I agree, United must have wanted to keep Rooney at all.cost to agreee to include such a term in his contract. dont get me wrong also believe its a bs story.
 
Is it possible to make money out of creating websites which allow crazed internet nobodies to post completely fabricated unsubstantiated bullshit stories about transfers?
 
wouldn't it be great if we could hold teams/ newspapers/ media outlets to bullshit offers like this one... after it was probably generated by an agent or a "source" with a vested interest in the deal, or in selling newspapers.

"Sorry, you reported 95M for Rooney, we'd like to collect on that, thank-you very much, nice doing business with you"
 
Is it possible to make money out of creating websites which allow crazed internet nobodies to post completely fabricated unsubstantiated bullshit stories about transfers?

Have often wondered that, if they get money for hits since Yonkie/Yolkie or whatever is trying to plug more than one site with similar stuff on them.
 
I actually desperately hope they do buy him for ninety-five million. The things we could do with that money, and all to get rid of a disloyal scouse cnut whose best days are long past.
 
I actually desperately hope they do buy him for ninety-five million. The things we could do with that money, and all to get rid of a disloyal scouse cnut whose best days are long past.

I remember thinking the same thing when it was announced that we'd agreed to sell Ronaldo for £80 million. I honestly believed we'd buy 2 or 3 world class players with it. But here we are nearly 2 years later and that money has hardly been touched.

If we sell Rooney I doubt the money will be reinvested into the squad.
 
If the buy out clause has been set at £25 million then I would expect a deal to have already been sorted with someone and the second part of the deal is a player to us. For example if it was RM then say £25m + Benzema (or insert player name).

If it's just £25 million then Rooney's will have screwed us big time.

Doubt that's the case though because Gill was looking mighty pleased about something after that deal and I didn't get the impression it was just because Rooney had signed a new contract. He wouldn't have been looking so chuffed if the buyout clause was only £25m.

Then again this article on Twitweb or whatever could just be complete hogwash.
 
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25 MILLION POUNDS!
 
How about we just give Real the money and pay them their £80m back for Ronaldo?
 
this is such a wum. no fecking chance we put a 'release clause' or any of that bollocks. especially 25 million quid. the glazers/gill might be twats but they aren't financial mugs when it comes to stuff like this.
 
Is it possible to make money out of creating websites which allow crazed internet nobodies to post completely fabricated unsubstantiated bullshit stories about transfers?

Yes. I'm assuming you are serious since the sarcasm meter isn't going off :)

There are plenty of schemes, but one of the most popular is basically how many hits you generate for the company advertising on your webpage.

Obviously the more dumb as shite people you can lure to your website, the more likely these dumbasses will click on your advertising banners and that generates $$.

Seems like transfer stories are a great way to generate hits which can translate into decent money.
 
So Evra signs a contract and we're back to Rooney now.
 
Yeah his release clause just can't be so low. Shit if its 25m, even an average team can afford him.
 
Yes. But...someone did pay 35 for Caroll.;)

Someone like Lescott has gone for 20 something million so I can see those happening in an inflated market at the moment. But I can't see sums like 80 or 95 million for anyone other than Ronaldo or Messi.

Actually I still can't believe we got 80 million for Ronaldo. 80 million. 80. million.
 
Someone like Lescott has gone for 20 something million so I can see those happening in an inflated market at the moment. But I can't see sums like 80 or 95 million for anyone other than Ronaldo or Messi.

Actually I still can't believe we got 80 million for Ronaldo. 80 million. 80. million.

Bargain for Real.