Ollie Watkins

comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 5 hours, 45 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 9 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Rogan_LUFC (U15303)
posted 28 minutes ago
Brentford can't auction him off if he has a minimum fee release
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If it was a "maximum" fee release then you'd be correct.

Minimum fee means all bids need to be higher than £18m, but highest bidder wins as long as the player wants the move.
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A minimum fee release clause means Brentford have to accept offers of £18 million. Reading this thread, I can't believe how many people don't understand this.
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Yes - if there's only one bidder and they bid £18m you'd be correct.

Now think if we offered £18m and City offered £25m who do you think would get the player? Do you think Brentford would sell to the first bidder?

Also, if Watkins doesn't want to move, then release clause is pointless. You can't FORCE the man to leave the club!

Why can't people get their heads around those points?
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If a club offered £18 million and another offered £25 million Brentford would have to accept both offers, as the clause means they have to accept any offers over £18 million.

I think it is you that needs to get your head around these points.
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So you're really saying that if two clubs offer over £18m then Brentford have to sell Watkins to both clubs?

That should be interesting! I always suspected that Brendford had a cloning system.

Come on guys - the point is clearly that any bids under £18m and Brentford don't have to agree to let Watkins go.

Any bids over £18m and the release clause says that Brentford have to allow the player to leave IF he wants to.

Let's be silly and assume that Watkins had no real preference for which Premiership club put bids in for him and there were 5 clubs interested, Brentford would be likely to sell to the highest bidder.

We bid £18m, then another club bids £19m, we go back with £20m........ you get the idea. Watkins has a release clause of £18m, but it isn't necessarily the price he will sell for.

Simples!


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Not sure how else to explain this to you.

Have you read the many explanations above?

I'm not sure how to respond to that but I'll try...

If a team bids 18 million brentford have to accept the offer.

If another team bids 20 million, they have to accept the offer.

They cant then reject the 18 million bid cause they got one higher, the 18 million offer triggers the clause which allows him to go ahead and speak to other clubs.

If he agree terms with the 18 million club, they cant not sell him.

You could have 20 clubs all bidding £18m.

Brentford have to accept all these offers.

The player then chooses which club he wants to join.

Cannot be simpler.

comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 11 hours, 34 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 9 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
comment by LeedsFanFor46Years - Prem4harj (U6871)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Rogan_LUFC (U15303)
posted 28 minutes ago
Brentford can't auction him off if he has a minimum fee release
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If it was a "maximum" fee release then you'd be correct.

Minimum fee means all bids need to be higher than £18m, but highest bidder wins as long as the player wants the move.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

A minimum fee release clause means Brentford have to accept offers of £18 million. Reading this thread, I can't believe how many people don't understand this.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes - if there's only one bidder and they bid £18m you'd be correct.

Now think if we offered £18m and City offered £25m who do you think would get the player? Do you think Brentford would sell to the first bidder?

Also, if Watkins doesn't want to move, then release clause is pointless. You can't FORCE the man to leave the club!

Why can't people get their heads around those points?
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If a club offered £18 million and another offered £25 million Brentford would have to accept both offers, as the clause means they have to accept any offers over £18 million.

I think it is you that needs to get your head around these points.
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So you're really saying that if two clubs offer over £18m then Brentford have to sell Watkins to both clubs?

That should be interesting! I always suspected that Brendford had a cloning system.

Come on guys - the point is clearly that any bids under £18m and Brentford don't have to agree to let Watkins go.

Any bids over £18m and the release clause says that Brentford have to allow the player to leave IF he wants to.

Let's be silly and assume that Watkins had no real preference for which Premiership club put bids in for him and there were 5 clubs interested, Brentford would be likely to sell to the highest bidder.

We bid £18m, then another club bids £19m, we go back with £20m........ you get the idea. Watkins has a release clause of £18m, but it isn't necessarily the price he will sell for.

Simples!


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LeedsFan must be wumming here surely.

Casper Sloth is a free agent. Time to welcome him back?

How bad do you have to be to be unable to break into the side st Motherwell...

not read the comments on the article yet.. but its a no from me... not sure I rate him that highly

Yeah he's only signed Alioski, Klich, Harrison, , Bamford, Nketiah, Meslier, Struijk, Davis, Poveda etc

Definitely signed some duds, but with a more focused policy in the last two years we have seen better results, though such an opinion may be unpopular.

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Spot on is this. I think we all massively judged Orta after his first year or so. Spent a fortune but that was also the chairman wanting to go foreign quantity looking for bargains. Orta left himself with a lot to prove but he was the man behind Bielsa and as mentioned above, his signings improved a lot.

However some may pull apart a Bamford or whoever else, he was the DOF who played a big part in promotion after 16 years. He had an accountability and he delivered.