There’s me thinking that they’d try and get some feel good factor about being allowed back in with a superb, one season only, hugely discounted season ticket.

Watch this space…

They’re the same thing - they never get their full wages, that’s being paid off - which only ever happens when wages are higher than a transfer fee, eg Ozil.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.fourfourtwo.com/amp/features/there-any-point-handing-a-transfer-request-fourfourtwo-investigates

… can we share a copy for our BRFCS YouTube?

Nope - he’s entitled to the balance owed in his contract unless he requests to leave. That’s why a lot of big clubs in big money transfers say ‘unless XYZ submits a transfer request they’re staying’ - it’s a threat. Now that’s ‘usually’ the case, there are exceptions, but most transfers work in this way. Now, if Arma really wants to move, which you expect he will, then usually he will negotiate his loyalty payment down. The issue with having players with 12 months left is theoretically, he can hang on for another year and move on a free - where he can demand a higher wage from his next club because he’s no transfer fee. Let’s say Arma is on 12K a week and has exactly 12 months left. That means he is owed 624K from Rovers in his contract. If we sell him in the summer he might negotiate that figure down to help push a move - he might accept 30%, say £187,200 to leave. But that’s worth it - because if he does move he can expect a signing on payment for his new club at roughly 10% of his transfer fee. Let’s say we sold him for 12 million… and Newcastle took their 4.8million 40% fee, and we paid him £187,200 loyalty… that gives us roughly 7M left to replace him… and that’s probably over 3/4 years. Then we need to replace him - but our new striker wants his 10% signing payment, plus his agent wants 5%, plus his management company want 3%… before you know it we’ve sold a 12 million pound player and with every single penny we have 5M to replace him.

It depends on the terms of the contract - at the moment, unless he submits a transfer request we only need to pay him a loyalty payment negotiated from his current wage for 1 year. If he had signed a 20K a week 5 year deal AND there was a 40% sell on clause we would have some huge payments to make if we sold him.

There’s something in that Si Senor song for sure. In fact, it’s begging for it. He is the king of Chile don’t you know born in Stoke La Rojo’s number 9 Si Senor give Diaz the ball and he will score

We know a guy selling Brereton Diaz 22 Chile tops for cheap..

He’s been having Spanish lessons for the past few months ever since he decided to represent Chile. I don’t think it’s an issue he’s gone out there and not played. He’s a back up option, which is acceptable when he’s behind Alexis Sanchez. For all they knew Alexis would get injured in training. It’s a competitive game, it’s like Ollie Watkins is only playing for England in the Euros if Harry Kane gets injured.

Done.

To add to this, if when the thread does come back we deem posters to be solely posting here to try and wind people up they’ll be issued with bans too.

Can I suggest you start using our ignore feature?

Just hid a bucket load of posts - to the people who notice their posts are no longer hear, I suggest an early night and a pint of water.

This is why I’m not in charge. I’m guessing they attach a value to each player or something?

I know it hardly ever happens, but if I was in charge of selling Armstrong I’d be asking for players in exchange and contributions towards their salaries to avoid paying that 40% transfer clause.

I know you still read this forum - donate my £100 to nightsafe.

I totally understand simple streaming is easy to do. My issue is the infrastructure. Who’s bringing the stream back up when the internet dies mid match? Are they hiring a team of engineers to be monitoring the stream during the game? Will there be a back up server? Are the people running the stream full time or freelance? If they’re freelance, what happens when one pulls out on the day of a match? Who’s trained these freelancers? Who’s providing the kit? Long story short - I don’t think a simple streaming solution is acceptable to paying fans especially in sport which is full of emotion. And if it’s simple I suspect it will be a downgrade on iFollow. Unless of course what they’re actually doing is going through a new external partner. In which case I do at least expect it to work.

No doubt it’s feasible - but it’s a huge (estimated 500K) investment to do it properly. A reliable product isn’t anywhere near as simple as a couple of camera operators, a vision mixer and then streaming it to fans. It worries me that you would think it’s so simple and I hope whoever is behind it has more experience in the field. Ultimately we’ll see what they do and that’s how it will be judged. If they do it cheap we’ll be in a worse position than iFollow. If they suitably invest in it we’ll have a great product that will eventually turn a profit - unless we get promoted.

Was any of it hands on/in a technical capacity or where you a student/work experience/runner? I’m not having a go here, but there’s very little positives to an (assumed) very small in-house team running something like this compared to IMG. There’s a reason only the top PL teams run operations like this eg MUTV or LFC.

Out of interest do you have any experience in live television/outside broadcasting?

Of course it was - it would be hugely inefficient to do it on site for circa 72 clubs. iFollow is run by IMG, one of the biggest providers worldwide and had a team of ~50 people working on it over the weekend and ~10 people on non match days. What is Rovers proposition? Looking forward to finding out.

I hope this works and is a benefit to the club. I fear that despite iFollow’s flaws, they have a full team working on it to fix and improve. Will Rovers be employing a similar outfit?

Fun story - I once worked for a huge sports broadcaster. One day in the office I watched the football team draw names out of a hat on who do a feature on. Within 3 hours there was a 5 minute feature explaining why Kovacic was Chelsea’s best player. It was broadcast worldwide. He isn’t their best player.

His data is based on playing at League 1 level though, right? Therefore it cannot be accurately compared against the entirety of the EFL, only League 1?