Kamil Conteh

Quoted from MuddyWaters

None of us were party to the decision to sign him so I don’t see the point of getting aggravated about it. The only thing I would say is that I would have hoped that someone higher up the leagues would have been willing to pay more.

Pay more on the basis of what?

Pretty much every prem club & I suspect most championship clubs will have players with just as much untapped potential in their academies and on the basis of his 20 odd games he played for us I’m not sure they’d be too keen to splash the cash.

I think he mostly looked a class act when here and will go on above League 1 level barring injury.  I wouldn’t be disappointed with the fee, the BOC will have been one of the reasons we got him, which was a coup at the time.  

Made at least £200k on the sale, got a sell on clause.  Good for us and him.

Seems to be good work from Joe in recruitment who seems to have identified Conteh as a target and earned his salary for a couple of years just on this deal.  

Also as a probably unpopular opinion I do think Bristol Rovers are probably a bigger club than us at this point as well as a league above.

Just one sample but pretty sure they took about 10k more fans than we did when we played them in the playoff final, indicating a bigger fan base at the least.

No shame in selling up the pyramid to earn money, especially with a sell in clause.  

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It seems like we initially paid £100k for him to Middlesboro.
We now pay Middlesboro a sell on clause percentage of  25% of £300k which is  £75k.
We receive £300k from Rovers and make £125k profit plus sell on clause of 20%.

Financially on paper a good bit of business for us BUT is anyone else fed up of us finding the off rough diamond to then lose them without a fight. Suppose it's part of being a lower league football supporter the disappointment of losing young talent to the teams above but £375k is feck all for a player that age on a three year deal

We need a Barry Fry doing the negotiations, nothing got past him

Quoted from aussiej

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It seems like we initially paid £100k for him to Middlesboro.
We now pay Middlesboro a sell on clause percentage of  25% of £300k which is  £75k.
We receive £300k from Rovers and make £125k profit plus sell on clause of 20%.

Normally pay % on profit figure rather than the total transfer fee so on your figures £25k more in the kitty.

Quoted from Simon

Financially on paper a good bit of business for us BUT is anyone else fed up of us finding the off rough diamond to then lose them without a fight. Suppose it's part of being a lower league football supporter the disappointment of losing young talent to the teams above but £375k is sodomist all for a player that age on a three year deal

We need a Barry Fry doing the negotiations, nothing got past him

Well Conteh did as it was posted today that in the summer he turned down Peterborough to join town!!!

He only came here because of the BOC and wanting to play football. No point in saying it should've been more because he would not have been here in the first place.
I think it was a decent deal for both parties. If we have the 20% sell on then it may work out very well in the future.

Fair play to him for putting himself out there. Also I think it should be mentioned again about the way he applauded the fans, specifically remember Notts. County where he ran the length of the pitch doing so.

Wish him all the best.

Quoted from Simon

Financially on paper a good bit of business for us BUT is anyone else fed up of us finding the off rough diamond to then lose them without a fight. Suppose it's part of being a lower league football supporter the disappointment of losing young talent to the teams above but £375k is feck all for a player that age on a three year deal

We need a Barry Fry doing the negotiations, nothing got past him

Let’s not kid ourselves here, we didn’t find the lad playing on Bradley Pitches - he was playing at Middlesborough and Watford before a year at Gateshead where he was an FA Trophy finalist and in the non-league team of the year.

We beat other clubs to his signature, including teams in higher divisions like Peterborough, only because we agreed to be in the position we are today - happy for him to go provided we made a certain level of profit.

Mixed feelings on this one  if it was only 300k plus 20% . Think we could have done a bit better.