Kamil Conteh

He doesnt want to be here and thats fine, so accepting a bid that works for us financially was the best option.
If we have returned a profit, after paying out clauses etc, of anything above £150k, then we have done well for a short 6 month period.

Lets not forget that this could also of been a 'Micheal Reddy' situation by holding on to him and him getting an injury, which could happen at any given time.

Personally I think he has shown enough potential, despite being in such a poor team and will probably go on to be a very good player at a higher level, where he will get even more time on the ball.

I am hopeful we have also secured a good sell on clause, in the hope that he does really well and reaches the heights of a top end Championship side, or even Premier League.

Hopefully Artell is given a large chunk of the money to spend in the summer.

Best wishes to Kamil aswell.

Right, I wasn’t aware of that, that’ll teach me for not reading the full 45 pages 😆

Looks a good bit of business. Let’s hope we can invest the proceeds into unearthing a few similar players develop them and sell them for a profit. It won’t always work but the ones that do should offset the ones that don’t make it. If we have got a sell on fee could be a nice long term income too.

Hard to judge just how good a player he will be. He strikes me as the sort of player that would fit in at any level. At the same age Kante was playing in the French National division which looks to be a similar standard to League 2. I doubt anyone watching him thought he would go on to win the World Cup.

His buyout clause was £275k which had to be met as a full upfront payment to be triggered. They didn’t want to pay that upfront so instead have made the value more than £275k with the installments. Forest green offered £275k in instalments for him at the start of the window which town was able to reject luckily!

Quoted from Alan Buckley

His buyout clause was £275k which had to be met as a full upfront payment to be triggered. They didn’t want to pay that upfront so instead have made the value more than £275k with the installments. Forest green offered £275k in instalments for him at the start of the window which town was able to reject luckily!

Not one to post often but this is 100% correct.

Just shows the money FGR have to splash around

Quoted from pizzzza

What doesn't make sense to me (perhaps you can help me understand) is it is a reported club record fee for Rovers, so over £370k. Lets say it's £370k and the release clause is £275k then BR are paying a 74% premium just to pay in installments, which seems a lot to me. Why would they do that? Cash flow? Just get a bank loan and pay Town the £275k, assume they can get one at less than 74% interest.

Because they didn’t want to pay £275k up front not sure if that’s cash flow or so that they could buy other targets too. But town was never going to except £275k in installments so the only way they could get a bid accepted was to pay over the release clause. They know there’s the potential for them to make a lot of money off him so worth the extra investment now.

Quoted from Hagrid

Just shows the money FGR have to splash around

Umteen managers and IMO have left it too late to splash the cash. There're going down.

Quoted from Alan Buckley

His buyout clause was £275k which had to be met as a full upfront payment to be triggered. They didn’t want to pay that upfront so instead have made the value more than £275k with the installments. Forest green offered £275k in instalments for him at the start of the window which town was able to reject luckily!

I'd like to think anyone with their head screwed on and with ambition like Conteh seems to have had would have rejected FGR. Bottom two of L2 and a vanity club with a tiny fanbase. Undoubtedly would have increased his wages but at what cost to his career?

Quoted from Alan Buckley

His buyout clause was £275k which had to be met as a full upfront payment to be triggered. They didn’t want to pay that upfront so instead have made the value more than £275k with the installments. Forest green offered £275k in instalments for him at the start of the window which town was able to reject luckily!

Kamil also turned down Peterborough to come to us after a lot of convincing over the summer. The £275k clause was the only way to get him here.