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Well like I said in my previous post, we don't need to include a fee if we don't want to, the upfront money is less significant than protecting our interests on the back end which we cannot do if we simply release him. I would not haggle over the difference between 200k and 300k but I would want us to be proactive and ask for a decent percentage of any sell on fee. We are entitled to expect that having spent resources on developing him and it is quite possible even if you think it unlikely that he could move on in a couple of years for a decent fee. Say we let him go for a nominal fee and negotiate a 25% sell on fee and he moves in a couple of years to a mid tier PL side for 20M then we would be in line for a 5M windfall. It may very well not happen but it does not hurt us to hedge against the possibility that it does and if we let Dundee United get him for next to nothing they can hardly complain about a clause that still lets them keep the majority of any future fee from a player they got for next to nothing.
20M . 20M for Levitt in a few years???? The same 25% sell on fee in the deal we arranged with Zaha? A massively better player than Levitt, that we never saw. The same sell on fee that always complicated negotiations for Crystal Palace when they were trying to sell him so he remained at Crystal Palace when he should have moved to a higher level 3 years ago. In principle you are right but these things rarely come off and in this case he isn't good enough to bother and we shouldn't add complications that could restrict his career as it has done for Zaha. So many young players don't make it. He has a chance to start his at Dundee, we shouldn't do anything that could hinder it.