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It's brilliant.

No way he's classy enough for Camden market like, Roman Road market selling Topshop seconds perhaps. The Modric point is a good one, the only reason he's never been pulled up on this is surely that he has the press in his pocket and that's not good enough from the FA.

West Ham got him for nothing I think. Edit: undisclosed fee, believed to be highly focussed on appearances. He then left after a few months.

And I realise I'm speculating there tbh, just thinking of plausible situations where this clause may have been agreed. I hope to fuck it doesn't exist and this is a load of bollocks.

Why? Because we've been bit in the balls in the past regarding signing players on long term contracts, and then getting long-term injuries (*cough*Owen*cough*). I'd imagine Ba's the only player at NUFC atm with a release clause purely because of the apparent 'dodgy' knee. Still doesn't make any sense, the only reason this clause would be activated would be because he is playing well. If he was injured or shit we would accept anything to get him off the books, NOT give him a release clause no club would pay when we were desperate to get rid. It does make sense though Jon, if we've given him a low basic wage and made his contract highly performance-based then it's potentially something negotiated by Ba's people to compensate for that. Nobody's saying it's something the club's insisted on, more something we may have agreed to.

If the clause doesn't exist then why haven't the club denied it? I'm all for us not getting sucked into every bit of mindless speculation but this is now getting a fair few column inches. If it doesn't exist then I'd expect to have seen a short statement already or to see it in the coming days. If it does exist then I'd wonder why. Was it to give us the advantage over other clubs when signing him? If the clause is as reported then it seems a very shortsighted deal by us and: a) I'd wonder what we're putting in our other players' contracts; and b) I'd hope we'd at least learn from this and cover ourselves going forward.

Fucking unbelievable from Redknapp like. For those saying that the big clubs would have bid already then I'm not so sure. Think they'd be better off waiting in case he knacked himself at ACN - if the clause exists then they might as well leave it a few weeks and minimise the risk. I've said all along I'd be amazed if the clause exists but there seems to be a hell of a lot of talk about it all of a sudden.

Yep.

Nothing as of yet. It's not a Faurlin conclusion if he'll play or not. Bloody hell.

Clearly written for him by his people. Draft 1 will have been him calling everyone helmets, guaranteed.

Here man, if he's doing the business on the pitch I don't see what the problem is.

Immense.

:lol: What? Ken Barlow is a fictional character. I know you edited it, but I still had to laugh. :lol: Oh right, fair do's.

What's that gibberish in the thread title?

:lol: What?

Shola, Best, Lovenkrands and HBA until the end of the season. Would be fucking fuming.

Well done mate.

Weird incident.

Fucking nutcase says fucking nutty thing shocker.

Espanyol desperately unlucky not to score there.

We need to start signing players on 15 year contracts signed in their own blood tbh, or this will keep on happening.

Hang on, is it the real Ken Barlow or not? Edit: well not the character, the actor.

Oh good.

What would Barton know about playing for a club like Man United who generally challenge on all fronts? The guy should just shut the fuck up now tbh.