Eddie - not only are you showing your lack of knowledge re contracts you clearly don't understand how loans work re previous comments (using your logic Swansea can command a % of fee if Liverpool sell Brewster).

I'll keep it simple - a player can only be owned by 1 club at a time. Sorloth is owned by Palace so all negotiations should be with us. A bit like a house owner renting his home out and then decides to sell.

Clearly the loan deal adds a complication but it doesn't change the fact, Sorloth is our player.

Yes people are reasonably happy we are almost getting our money back (we paid adds on for staying up in seasons 1 and 2) and it is clearly better than the 6m Euro deal but we have proved yet again poor negotiators.

Don't bother replying, your opinion is irrelevant

If Bats scores 15 goals by xmas and someone bids £50m for him in Jan window, he is a Chelsea player so we get fcuk all. Yes Chelsea would have to break the loan deal, but it can be done.

As Sorloth had already refused to return to Turkey he broke the loan not Palace.

I am amazed we have agreed a 50:50 split.

The Turks paid £5m for a 2 year loan which predominantly just covers his wages. I suspect this was being paid in installments too. I am amazed we've paid them more than £5m to cover that payment.
It's irrelvant that they had a purchase clause - it could only be activated after the 2nd season and he has only played one. Yes £11m is better than i expected, but clearly £16m is a lot better.

Anybody who says this is a good deal knows nothing about contract law - and there were many on here who thought we'd get zero only a few weeks ago

What a rude and patronising response. You have absolutely no idea what was or was not in the contract and the negotiations could have been for any number of reasons.

If you wish to patronise people kindly make sure that you are on solid ground first to avoid ending up looking like a dork

You don't apply that principal to Schlupp, who you loved to tell everyone only completed one pass against Southampton, which nobody believed. Following Saturday, he was awesome and many peoples MOM.

I certainly don’t apply that to Schlupp because I have made up my mind on him over a few seasons and even after a decent game on Saturday I still hold the same opinion of him. I don’t think he is a very good football player.

I know he set up Townsend perfectly on Saturday for his goal and il take my hat off to him for his effort but nearly everything he did after that resulted in him losing the ball at the end. In my view there is no point in beating 3 men then giving the ball away, it may catch the eye of the fans but it’s pointless if it ends up with giving the ball away.

I can see why Roy plays him and we always look more balanced as a team because he is left footed but in my opinion he is a squad player not regular starter.

Do you think I just make up random facts about Jeff Schlupp to make myself feel good? He completed 1 pass against Southampton and that is a fact. Thiago completed 75 for Liverpool yesterday in 1 half of football.

Edited by EddieMac (21 Sep 2020 8.09am)