Harry Kane

Quoted from Heisenberg

Which is ridiculous. When Juventus signed Aaron Ramsey for free, it should have been a case of just that - “we’re signing you because you’re a good player and you’re free. You should be delighted to be signing for Juve” - instead, what didn’t Juve do? They paid a bang average player £400K per week! There is no way on earth they’d have paid £50m-or-so if he was still under contract to Arsenal. Madness. But well done to his agent, he pulled a master stroke there.

Juve are bent, simple as that. Their transfer dealings are both scattergun and generally illegal.

They’ve just done it with Lukaku, they’ve no intention of signing him, it was merely force out a high earner which has happened.

The free transfer thing has always been a fallacy but it is also the way many players have made themselves money etc.

A former colleague of mine had only 2 moves in his career (an array of loans), and only ever had 5 contracts with small signing on fees. He’s a local legend at his former club but as he says, ‘yeh, local legend but working a normal job, in a normal house with a normal family’. His former skipper moved multiple times across various divisions and loves a much different life because of signing on fees and managed to get himself a couple of great deals as a ‘free agent’.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

At elite level there’s no such thing as a free transfer. Bayern would have paid the same money if he was out of contract now. It would have just all gone to Kane through signing on fee and inflated wages and not to Spurs.

Nah! Not having it.

I'm sure BM would have much preferred not to have to pay 100 million up front.

Are you a football agent?

Quoted from ginnywings

Nah! Not having it.

I'm sure BM would have much preferred not to have to pay 100 million up front.

Are you a football agent?

I cheerily point you to what Aaron Ramsey was paid a week at Juventus after joining for “free” and the signing on fee Mbappe received for his new contract at PSG a while back.

When clubs sign an elite players they look at the entire cost of the deal over the length of the contract and not the individual constituent parts.

Why on earth would a player worth £80m who’s out of contract not take the fee himself when he joined a new club? He’ll take every single penny.

Just checked. PSG gave Mbappe a €100m signing on fee for his new 3 year contract last summer. And that’s for a player who was already at the club but out of contract.