THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Andrew Cullen was in charge of the 'Dele deal' IIRC.
He's no fool and, I believe, would have known exactly what the situation was/would be in the future with regard to what we should get

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Surprised nobody has mentioned it but in Liam Sweeting's press interview yesterday he hinted that the club will benefit from Dele's transfer down the line, also mentioned the likes of Rhys Healey and Matt O'Riley further on with sell-on clauses.

I'm pretty satisfied now we're going to be getting that sell-on % whenever Everton end up paying Spurs.

Maybe because some of us weren’t surprised?

The. Biggest take away from the LS interview is, as you say, the fact the club are effectively planting money trees all over the place. Aside from the stake we have in Healey & O’Riley, it would presumably be similar with Sorinola and going back a little further; Walsh, Poole, McGrandles, Nombe etc? Also, given that George Baldock’s departure was under LS then I’m hopeful that’s another little nest egg.

Not sure we'd have been to negotiate much for Sorinola as his contract expired and he went overseas? But don't forget Brittain too. I hope we have a buy-back clause for Nombe, not just a sell-on.

While I agree with what you and others say about the sell-on still being in place despite the deal structure - this one is different to the usual "£50million in five instalments" type. With simple instalments, they are due whatever happens. Even if the player has been sacked by the time of the last instalment - it still gets paid.

With this Everton deal, there remains the possibility / risk that no money changes hands. It may not work out for Alli and he moves on before 20 games. But we should take some solace from the fact that Levy is a total ladybit when it comes to transfers and I am sure there'll be something in there for if that happens (18% of which is ours).

I doubt we'll ever know the exact terms for the sale of Dele to Everton until we start receiving money, so I wonder if Levy would try and use that ambiguity to get us to sell our clause early?

I actually wouldn't be opposed to this provided we insist that the only price we'll accept is our share of the maximum amount Dele will earn Spurs.

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Cuboid of bum fluff

They did that with Bale. Southampton agreed to a really low amount as Bale hadn't done an awful lot at the time. Few years later he goes to Madrid £85m and Southampton missed out on a windfall.

As the transfer for Dele has now been done, I doubt we'd come to some agreement. That would have only happened a couple of years back.

So the answer is no thanks, and no change to what we already have then, Dippy.

Which, providing we do actually earn in installments, is a win win for us.

I'm not Pete, but to me given how unsure everyone truly is about it I think it makes sense to ask the question of give us £6-8 million (however much we would be entitled to for the max amount) or give us our share in each installment.

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Cuboid of bum fluff