Summer Transfer Window Thread 2015

[TCO]

Traore has one of those silly buyback clauses that Real and Barcelona bully into every deal involving a young player. So if he's good he'll be straight back to Barca for a nominal increase on what Villa paid.

[Lineker]

 

Farewell Bobby Soldier, it wasn't meant to be!

[Moses Julep]

Great, now let's sign some players. Lineker, make it happen!

[brenchill]

Spurs should really buy a few players before this window is out.

[Sam]

They should sell us Lloris and buy Valdes in return

[Lineker]

 

[EddieG]

Wow, Lineker works quickly.

[Moses Julep]

So are we gonna get another Tobes style video explaining how we pronounce this dude's surname? 

 

Also give us another signing Lineker!

[Plubby]

Jobes. The "N" is silent.

[Colly]

Nigel.

[EddieG]

Clints

[Lineker]

Bill.

[Arjen Robben]

Traore has one of those silly buyback clauses that Real and Barcelona bully into every deal involving a young player. So if he's good he'll be straight back to Barca for a nominal increase on what Villa paid.

Amusingly, one of the few players they didn't have something like that in place with was Juan Mata

[TCO]

Traore has one of those silly buyback clauses that Real and Barcelona bully into every deal involving a young player. So if he's good he'll be straight back to Barca for a nominal increase on what Villa paid.

Amusingly, one of the few players they didn't have something like that in place with was Juan Mata

I think that was only because they triggered his release clause, so there was no ability to add the clause to the deal at that point.

The most obvious case of it was Dani Carvajal when Real effectively paid €1.5mil to resign him when his true value had skyrocketed in his brilliant season at Leverkusen. It's a silly clause and it shouldn't really be allowed.

[Arjen Robben]

I think it's something I only ever see Real Madrid do, or at least exercise the option on. I can't think of many players Barca have sold and then exercised a buy-back on but Real Madrid seem to bring them back all the time, even when on the face of it they don't really seem like players that are ever likely to be in the team.

[MJB]

Barca did it with Gerard Pique, IIRC.

[The Lusophone]

Pique. Probably one for Muniesa as well.

[Cymbols]

Bojan too

[Nerf]

Fabregas...

[Arjen Robben]

Fabregas wasn't. And I'm pretty sure Pique wasn't, because both were just taken from Barcelona's academy without Arsenal or United having to pay a fee because they hadn't signed a professional contract with Barcelona yet, they weren't sold.