Premature Speculation

comment by Fridge. (U14428)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
For those of you slating Griff earlier in the thread, in that Guardian interview with Rowett he says:

"We’ve sold Will, but we’ve brought in Andre Wisdom, Curtis Davies and Tom Huddlestone for the same money.”

Transfermarkt puts those combined fees at £4.315m


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Transfermarkt knows no more about the transfer fees than you or I.

... in saying that they have Will Hughes' transfer fee at £7.74m if you want to use them to try and defend Griff's tripe...

I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm not saying Transfermarkt is right, simply that to dismiss it as tripe when that number is clearly in the right ballpark is perhaps a bit harsh.....

comment by Fridge. (U14428)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm not saying Transfermarkt is right, simply that to dismiss it as tripe when that number is clearly in the right ballpark is perhaps a bit harsh.....
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Griff is playing the game of netting off outstanding monies owed to Watford and calling the net amount the "transfer fee", just to have a gripe at the club.

If we'd sold him to Melchester Rovers, paid Watford the money we owed them and spent the difference on 3 players, he wouldn't call the "transfer fee" the amount we received from Melchester Rovers less the amount we owed Watford, would he?

comment by Maяcо (U1329)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
comment by Fridge. (U14428)
posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm not saying Transfermarkt is right, simply that to dismiss it as tripe when that number is clearly in the right ballpark is perhaps a bit harsh.....
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Griff is playing the game of netting off outstanding monies owed to Watford and calling the net amount the "transfer fee", just to have a gripe at the club.

If we'd sold him to Melchester Rovers, paid Watford the money we owed them and spent the difference on 3 players, he wouldn't call the "transfer fee" the amount we received from Melchester Rovers less the amount we owed Watford, would he?
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At the risk of sounding like an accountancy bore, cancellation of a debt is effectively the same as money received, so the two amounts combined would be the transfer fee, presumably the amount reported in some places of c. £5m ?

In which case, depending on how much we owed Watford at the time, we may have received no cash in the deal, simply cancellation of debts? The money we would then have spent on servicing that debt has gone instead on the others.

A fee is a fee is a fee, the other side of the transaction is largely irrelevant I would expect.

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quiet you

I was just having a laugh. ❤️