The thing is, it might have been something Duff insisted on. Otherwise, we might have had to turn to plan B, which sounds like it was Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
Then we need to rethink it moving forward. £500k is a drop in the ocean and we need to move away from it in future.
I agree, but we don't know the full ins and outs of why it's there in the first place (if its true of course).
Again I don’t mind it being there but it needs to be genuinely substantial and I wouldn’t even mind if the head coach was rewarded as part of it being activated or a loyalty payment for each season so it rewards both parties. Hopefully it was way more than 500k but if it wasn’t then we have messed up again really.
I get what you're saying mate, but it might be a case of having that clause for that amount in the contract, or no deal. Apparently that was the case for Ricardo Vaz Te.
Could well be - he was in demand at the time. makes a complete mockery of his comments about it being long term project and not here for 5 minutes if he demanded a 500k release clause
Bottom line is..has he buggered off or not? If he's buggered off I'd like to know. If he's not buggered off....er...Id like to know. Stop buggering about and tell us if he's buggered off or not buggered off. Come on BFC stop buggering about cos I'm buggered if I can cope with it all.