Kamil Conteh

Quoted from Ollie

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.

Spot on.

Anybody who can’t see this as good business is stuck in the past IMO. Brentford & Brighton have forced their way into the top leagues by repeating this sort of business season after season.

If it’s a one off then there’s an argument for it not being a good sale, but we’ve explicitly said this is the plan and it’s obviously working. We’ve brought a player in, got a good return on him and now have the opportunity to re-invest it into the next sellable asset.

With Mcatee, Pollock, Grist & Conteh we’ve made over £1m. If we can replicate the same thing with 4 more and maybe make £2m the next time, then progressing up the leagues becomes much more achievable.

Quoted from pontoonlew

Anybody who can’t see this as good business is stuck in the past IMO. Brentford & Brighton have forced their way into the top leagues by repeating this sort of business season after season.

If it’s a one off then there’s an argument for it not being a good sale, but we’ve explicitly said this is the plan and it’s obviously working. We’ve brought a player in, got a good return on him and now have the opportunity to re-invest it into the next sellable asset.

With Mcatee, Pollock, Grist & Conteh we’ve made over £1m. If we can replicate the same thing with 4 more and maybe make £2m the next time, then progressing up the leagues becomes much more achievable.

Exactly this! For the club to be sustainable then we have to have a steady source of income via buying and selling. Obviously you have to balance this with who we sell and how important they are for the club to still be successful and progress.

It’s a good deal in the sense that we’ve made a small profit on a player in just six months, and there maybe some further sell on advantages in the future. I just can’t help but be a little disappointed that 1. We’ve lost a cracking player, and 2. Having not known about the clause previously, I felt we could’ve made a lot more money in 6 months to a year, maybe even getting up to the 7 figure mark. But we’ll move on and I trust the owners and DA to invest that money wisely.

Having met him a few times for several different reasons he’s a cracking young lad and hopefully he’ll work his way up the leagues now.

Good luck Kam

I mean Bristol are saying it's their highest transfer bid paid, so could only be £5 more than that and they can market to the fans that they're splashing the cash.

I think Town had a decision, either wait for the BOC or maybe take a bit more for delayed payment.

Ultimately, if we paid roughly £100k for him, and get £400k, we can replace with 3 good standard league 2 players and get £100k for the January inconvenience. Not to mention 20% sell on, which if he went for £1.5m later, is a tidy £300k. I'd take 3 more Rose's of their position over Conteh. Good player with great potential and I wish him luck, but I think we need players ready to go now.

I think a lot of owners would have bowed to pressure and begrudgingly accepted the release clause in installments, so fair play to those that played the game and negotiated a better deal for the club.

I think that Conteh can be a very good case study for the club to use in demonstrating to talented young players that we won't stand in their way of progressing.

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!

Pleased you’ve been proved correct after, at best, sceptical posts on here. Any idea what we paid for him initially?

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Pleased you’ve been proved correct after, at best, sceptical posts on here. Any idea what we paid for him initially?

Is it true though? What is your source? GTFC? Bristol Rovers, Kamil, or his agent?

It is Bristol Rovers biggest transfer fee. Why would they pay £75k over the asking price? Even with today's interest rates, they'd be quids in to borrow it.

Great business.

Conteh was never here for the long haul.  Good luck to the lad and I wish him the best.  I think he'll get a lot better with better players around him. But he's looked as anonymous at times as he as influential.  Actually surprised anyone has jumped the gun on him so early when his form has dipped at various points already this season (albeit in a side that hasn't torn trees up).

The value of this transfer will come when/if he impresses at Rovers and gets sold again.  20% straight up sell-on is significant, never mind the actual transfer fee in an age when they tend to for a pittance at this level (as a selling club).

Have we actually announced this yet?
The lad left yesterday morning after saying his goodbyes, what's the delay...