Quote Originally Posted by Pico View Post
You do realise that clause was included in the new 1 year extended contract the club got taggart to sign in November 2013, he originally signed a 2 year deal in march 2012, meaning if they had not signed the bloke to the extension he would have been out the door on a free transfer. Taggz was always going to be looking to move at the first chance he got, by getting an extension with that ceiling guaranteed that we'd make money and retain a good player, hardly the worst deal going around.

You do realise that as Taggz was under the age of 23 the Jets are according to FIFA rules entitled to a training compensation fee anyway regardless of whether Taggz was under contract or not????? So it ain't like he would have walked out for nothing anyway

Bet you our club had NFI on that


Why exactly is everyone happy we sold the bloke and only got 400k or so for it?? The club negotiated this deal at a time he had just scored a few goals last season. No one at the time was predicting golden boot and World Cup for the kid. It was only the fact that these things happened the interest to leave would have been spiked.

To me it is a pretty poor decision to agree a stipulation in a deal like that at all particularly for a bloke who plays a position that goes for big $$ in transfer fees anyway and even more so when everyone could see the kid had talent and it would be a matter of time before it was fulfilled.