Kamil Conteh

Quoted from Alan Buckley

Aww bless you.


My posts have been firstly about Callum Ainley signing which was backed up. And now about Conteh’s release clause which I’ve let a few people know who have private messaged me, again I’ll state that even when he is eventually sold his fee almost certainly won’t be made public anyway.

Also we didn’t pay anywhere near the 200k that people are saying we will still make a healthy profit on him especially if he moves twice. It just won’t be a £500k bid that he goes for 😂

I’m 100% sure we won’t officially announce a fee too, we quite rightly never do.

Quoted from grimps

If we paid 100k for him there is no way we'd have a clause for 250k

Why?

I don't know the figures be it for his transfer fee or for his release.  But I don't think it's unfathomable that there would have been other interest in him last summer.  Getting him required an incentive that no-one else would have been prepared to offer.

That could well be a very low release clause.  I don't think we'll have paid massive wages for him and as much as I think he's got his head screwed on I really can't imagine he bought into the long-term vision of the club.  More I think about it the more I can see us pitching the club to him on the basis that he comes here, builds up his reputation a bit more and then we really don't stand in his way when it comes to someone else higher up the food chain wanting to take him.  He's proved he can cut it at the next level in his development, which probably allows him to demand a better deal at his next club.  Our benefit just comes a little bit differently.

Profit is profit, regardless of when it comes. It might be that we make very little off this transfer, let's say £25k.  But with a sell-on clause any future transfers is where we really make our money on him.

Obviously we want to see the money back from him straight away but would we rather see £250k profit now or £500k upwards in 18 months time?    Easy answer but to add another angle to it, I can't imagine there's a cat in hells chance he signs for us last summer without that release fee in place.

Take the short-term out of it and I really like this plan.  It's different and makes us a little bit different to the rest when it comes to the transfer market.  We've seen how the non-league market has become completely ravaged.  The days of signing Jamie Vardy for 47p and then selling them a year later for £1million have long gone.  So we need to think of other ways that we can gain that competitive edge and steal a march.  This type of deal not only is a potential future income stream but it's also a great way for us to become appealing to the next Kamil Conteh.  

We might have to wait 18 months to see the real profit from Conteh.  But in those 18 months we might have brought in Conteh Mk II and Mk III.  Mk II we sell next summer, again not a huge initial profit but another year down the line we make a tidy profit as part of their next transfer... and so on.

Rovers bid has apparently been rejected by the club

Some of the ITK posters going to look quite daft if they’ve made up a release clause

But all the Bristol Rovers supporters on twitter were bragging about their club's undoubted financial might and certain ability to meet whatever paltry release clause was set in Conteh's contract, how could this be possible!??!

Quoted from pontoonlew

Some of the ITK posters going to look quite daft if they’ve made up a release clause

Piece from the local Bristol news outlet here. No inference is made towards a release clause, and references the £370k club record for Andy Tillson as the benchmark. Have they really got the spondoolies to be paying that kind of sum?

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/.....gning-league-9041647

Quoted from Poojah

Piece from the local Bristol news outlet here. No inference is made towards a release clause, and references the £370k club record for Andy Tillson as the benchmark. Have they really got the spondoolies to be paying that kind of sum?

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/.....gning-league-9041647

They have Middle Eastern owners with net worth of £500 m plus have just built a new 3000 capacity stand in 6 months even though they expect to relocate in the future and paid £350k for a 21 year old  from Stoke so yes they have the spondoolies

Quoted from HerveJosse

They have Middle Eastern owners with net worth of £500 m plus have just built a new 3000 capacity stand in 6 months even though they expect to relocate in the future and paid £350k for a 21 year old  from Stoke so yes they have the spondoolies

Right, £700k it is then.

The Arabs like chucking money around when it comes to football clubs, so make 'em pay if they want to sign him!

Hopefully, he'll stay with us until at least the end of the season, however.