Angell Delight
Life President
But what kind of moron would agree to it being based on profit as there is a 50% chance that it wont be profit.
You're coming from a "they'll either sell him for more than £1.5m or less than £1.5m" viewpoint mate and therefore you say it would be 50/50 but it's not as simple as that. Freddy is a class player and everyone who took part in this deal knew that. We the supporters certainly knew that also. Wolves got Freddy for LESS than his market value due to the fact he only had one year left on his deal. If Eastwood had been under contract for say three years we'd have doubled our money. Therefore there was a very good chance that Wolves would make profit on any deal involving Freddy in the future due to the fact he was a steal, this apart from him playing with better players at Wolves which meant there was also a good chance that alone would bring his game to a higher standard.
The chances of profit were significantly above 50/50 in my book, unfortunately it didn't work out. Would Ron be an idiot for negotiating a sell-on clause that is profit-based? No I don't think so at all, particularly if that was the only way Wolves were prepared to accept a sell-on. If they believed they could sell Freddy in the future for a huge fee (and let's face it there were some big big clubs after him halfway through our Championship season) they'd have been reluctant to give us 25% of the TOTAL fee received.
With regards the comments further up about alerting other clubs that we've had a windfall Shrimpersarmy does make a valid point however it is my honest opinion that regardless of this any windfall WOULD almost certainly be revealed. In the vast majority of cases it most definitely is, and having taken many questions from fans about Freddy's transfer to Molineux I'm absolutely certain that Ron would want the supporters to know that he had done the right thing by the club. My gut feeling is that we've received nothing and if we don't hear anything in the coming days you can be almost certain of that.
Good luck to Freddy though, hope he does well at the Ricoh and comes back to haunt McCarthy next season.
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