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At the second forum McCabe said that Hughton told him that Newcastle based their Championship season on our term before when we lost in play-offs!
And I just love this:
Did you get the transfer policy wrong last summer?
KMc: We didn't think so at the time, Seth. I mean like any football club, sorry, Sheffield United as a football club, planned to get it right. Just take what I said. We lost a month because of the play-offs and getting to the final so that was detrimental to probably two or three players who we quite fancied went to other clubs because we didn't know if we were going to be in the Premiership or the Championship, so we were handcuffed. We couldn't start moving until after we'd lost at Wembley. So we thought we'd got it right with the players we'd brought in but on reflection, you know, maybe, we could've got other players if we'd have had that precious month we lost.
SB: Where was the big signing last summer?
KMc: Well I think we made the signing that was most expensive in the Championship with Ched Evans who's cost us three million. He's a very talented youngster...
SB: He hasn't cost you three million though has he?
KMc: Absolutely. It's...
SB: Have you paid three million already for him?
KMc: Well we've paid some of the three million. We're committed to pay three million. Make no bones about it. We're very clear...
SB: Isn't that only on goals and international appearances and all the rest of it?
KMc: It's on a set amount of money that's on appearances only.
SB: On appearances only?
KMc: Yep, I mean...
SB: How much have you paid for Ched Evans as of today?
KMc: Errr... I can't tell you to be honest with you....
SB: Trevor?
TB: Well it's spread over the course of the contract but we are committed to you know, over two million.
SB: Already? That's already been paid?
TB: Well it's not already been paid but it will be paid over the course of the contract. But it's a two million pound commitment.
KMc: We'll get you the factual information Seth but to every supporter - Ched, who we think is a fine player but maybe not had the season we all hoped for as supporters, is a three million pound package that the club pay for him on a transfer fee that was the largest in the Championship. It's not a myth. And I don't know why there seems to be some belief that we're paying a lot more...
SB: Well probably because your manager has said that the fee for Ched Evans was £750,000 up front with money still to come.
KMc: Well that is... well we paid, when he first joined, we paid £750,000 as the first stage of the payment and when you conduct transfers, out or in, I should think invariably, eight transfers out of ten are paid in stages. It's not unusual. It's the norm.
TB: Yeah, I think that's the way transfers are done these days. It's spread over the course of the contract.
And I just love this:
Did you get the transfer policy wrong last summer?
KMc: We didn't think so at the time, Seth. I mean like any football club, sorry, Sheffield United as a football club, planned to get it right. Just take what I said. We lost a month because of the play-offs and getting to the final so that was detrimental to probably two or three players who we quite fancied went to other clubs because we didn't know if we were going to be in the Premiership or the Championship, so we were handcuffed. We couldn't start moving until after we'd lost at Wembley. So we thought we'd got it right with the players we'd brought in but on reflection, you know, maybe, we could've got other players if we'd have had that precious month we lost.
SB: Where was the big signing last summer?
KMc: Well I think we made the signing that was most expensive in the Championship with Ched Evans who's cost us three million. He's a very talented youngster...
SB: He hasn't cost you three million though has he?
KMc: Absolutely. It's...
SB: Have you paid three million already for him?
KMc: Well we've paid some of the three million. We're committed to pay three million. Make no bones about it. We're very clear...
SB: Isn't that only on goals and international appearances and all the rest of it?
KMc: It's on a set amount of money that's on appearances only.
SB: On appearances only?
KMc: Yep, I mean...
SB: How much have you paid for Ched Evans as of today?
KMc: Errr... I can't tell you to be honest with you....
SB: Trevor?
TB: Well it's spread over the course of the contract but we are committed to you know, over two million.
SB: Already? That's already been paid?
TB: Well it's not already been paid but it will be paid over the course of the contract. But it's a two million pound commitment.
KMc: We'll get you the factual information Seth but to every supporter - Ched, who we think is a fine player but maybe not had the season we all hoped for as supporters, is a three million pound package that the club pay for him on a transfer fee that was the largest in the Championship. It's not a myth. And I don't know why there seems to be some belief that we're paying a lot more...
SB: Well probably because your manager has said that the fee for Ched Evans was £750,000 up front with money still to come.
KMc: Well that is... well we paid, when he first joined, we paid £750,000 as the first stage of the payment and when you conduct transfers, out or in, I should think invariably, eight transfers out of ten are paid in stages. It's not unusual. It's the norm.
TB: Yeah, I think that's the way transfers are done these days. It's spread over the course of the contract.
