Undisclosed fees

I thought EaststandLower was the one who was upset about the puddle.

 

You may well be right, I don't know.

I know I stopped going to any of those sorts of meetings after that. I was a member of the supporters club and the supporters society for years and attended Q&A sessions all the time. I wasn't happy with a number of responses we'd been given over that time, but there'd never previously been anything so blatant and I just thought, "What's the ******* point!?"

 

Christ on a bike.

 

It was the first I went to. Never went again. I asked that one question. It was answered. Albeit proven completely innacurate.

So at that point I chalked it. Why go if they only tell you what they want you to hear.

They were so open on the fee rejected for Matty done. The wages that certain players were on to prove why we couldn't sign. Why vaz and macindoe went etc. You know all the stuff that would make you think. Ok I get why you did it.

But ffs. Allowing a 300k release clause into a contract for a striker wgonscored goals for fun. And to deny it's existence only for it to bite a few days later.

That's when you question motives of everyone.

Oh and yes. I agree with your recent stance.

Where the **** is all the money from the last 2 years.......

 

Have a read of the fan forum minutes located in another part of the forum.

It states clearly what the release clause was. And that we were happy to insert it in the basis that we would get 12/18 months of hammill before the inevitable happened.

His clause was to be available for use after 12 months. For a fee of 500k he could then leave. Nothing related to any other clause. It was purely fee related.

He left.

 

Is it just me who thought

“Ask BFC” was answering posts where “mapplewell red” should have and vice verse on page one??

Just a thought hey Chris

 

I just respond to things as they appear on the mobile site but often the notifications and format distort the thread thereafter.

 

For years the club have been on abart being open to supporters and giving it the spiel that we are a community club blah,blah yet they still wont inform us of what the transfer fees are. Transfer fees which are the first thing someone asks when a transfer is made. Meks it look and always having looked as dodge as ****.

Come on GG break the spell.

 

PFA used to tell players what the top wages were at potential suitors.

 

I'm the complete opposite personally. I think all transfer fees and wages involving deals between privately owned clubs should be private(obviously if a club is publicly owned, the fees have to be made public), and that all agents who are included in the deal should be made to sign legally binding non-disclosure agreements.

It would take away the pressure from the players who wouldn't have the fans baying for his blood if said player doesn't live up to his fee, and I actually think t would slow down the escalating transfer fees that are getting more and more obscene.

 

We are led to believe the fee for Bradshaw is £1 million possibly rising to £1.25 million.
The extra £250k is incumbent on him helping Millwall to achieve promotion to the Premiership.
That's never going to happen is it.? We bought him for £600k, so a £400k profit on him in his
final season is not bad business, particularly as we can replace him.

 

Completely agree. You don't go into the local bakery and ask them how much they paid for their ovens after all!

Key thing is can the club afford a signing, does a sale allow them to advance the clubs strategy and does a new signing contribute to our success over time? Never been fussed with undisclosed amounts, and for anyone interested, an unofficial amount is often trailed anyway. Millwall have bought him for around £1m, yet its undisclosed. So who disclosed that level of fee?

 

People who have a relationship with their local bakery that sports fans have with the club they support are weird or fat or probably both.

Anyone comparing a football club to a bakery doesn't get it. They can't do.

 

I’m a season ticket holder at Greggs.

 

Is there a sell on fee for Walsall ?

 

I get it completely. A clubs supporters are fanatical. They expect to know everything all the time and when they don't have communication they… we, create conspiracy theories galore regardless. Even when we have communication, many don't believe it anyway.

At the end of the day, whether you know how much a player is bought or sold for or not, all it changes is how much people chunter about it. And a Barnsley fan will always chunter when they get the slimmest of chances.

We don't have a right to know certain details. Whether anyone thinks we should or not. A football club is a company and operates within those boundaries. Just like a bakers, a law firm, a manufacturer of cat litter or a clothes shop.

Just because we term ourselves fans rather than customers, doesn't change the rights of what we are entitled to see.