What DID Wolves pay for KM?

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Has anybody seen this in today's Yorkshire Post? There are quite a few articles on the Blades on-line including this one that indicates what Wolves offered for KM

Full article

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...efit-from-prince-abdullah-s-arrival-1-6015713

Extract

“In the case of Kevin McDonald, he had a clause in his contract that if a club offered over £250,000, the player had the right to talk to the club that had made the offer,” said McCabe.
“Wolverhampton Wanderers literally offered a pound over that number, and subsequently he spoke to them.

 

[blade too long]

undisclosed , take your pick from 250 500 750k

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport...013/08/10/wolves-wait-on-kevin-mcdonald-move/
the wolverhampton local rag seems to think it was 750k
local tends to be right more often than the nationals guess work

 

[SwissBlade]

Yes sounds about right. This appeared to be the general understanding of many on here a couple of weeks back.

Seems reasonable. Or does it seem too high?

 

[Torrix1889]

What DID Wolves pay for KM?


The answer is in the article BoS, £250,001..........not that it matters, he's gone, move on.

 

[blade too long]

if you read the article 250 was minimum to trigger talks , not what they paid I go with the local

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport...vin-mcdonald-backed-to-be-wolves-pass-master/
they got the valuation ff Kenny Jackett, wolves manager , but what does he know

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Given last season, the correct answer is 'too much!'

 

[Grecian2000]

Given last season, the correct answer is 'too much!'

OR given our results since his departure "not enough".

He's gone, he's been "replaced", so I guess the deal has balanced out whatever it was. If Wolves screwed us over I'm sure we repeated the trick with Oldham.

 

[Balham]

if you read the article 250 was minimum to trigger talks , not what they paid I go with the local

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport...vin-mcdonald-backed-to-be-wolves-pass-master/
they got the valuation ff Kenny Jackett, wolves manager , but what does he know

Give over. If the clause was £250,001 then that will be what they paid. I thought it would be higher but there you go.

 

[Torrix1889]

Give over. If the clause was £250,001 then that will be what they paid. I thought it would be higher but there you go.

Agreed, why would they bung us 0.5m more...?

If it was £750K however then that does mean there has been ZERO money put in by either McCabe or the Prince so far as we simply used the K-Mac money to buy Jose and Laurent....

 

[blade too long]

well the prince was only introduced after the deadline
what we have to accept is with fair play rules we have to look like we are paupers, not princes

 

[blade too long]

Agreed, why would they bung us 0.5m more...?

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because there were other interested parties, a release clause means they can speak to him not that they are entitled to buy at that price, just talk to him
real madrid were allowed tospeak to Bale after triggering the 50 million clause , they didnt have to double it using that argument

 

[Pedro Verde]

because there were other interested parties, a release clause means they can speak to him not that they are entitled to buy at that price, just talk to him
real madrid were allowed tospeak to Bale after triggering the 50 million clause , they didnt have to double it using that argument

What other interested parties ?? Are you saying there was a bidding war for K Mac ?
The Wolves local rag will have upped the 'undisclosed fee' so it looks to the Wolves fans they are spending big

 

[Sothall_Blade]

undisclosed , take your pick from 250 500 750k
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport...013/08/10/wolves-wait-on-kevin-mcdonald-move/
the wolverhampton local rag seems to think it was 750k local tends to be right more often than the nationals guess work

The Wolves "Express and Star" was the original source of the estimated £750K fee.
By the 19th August, even they had changed their tune and agreed that the fee was "a cut price £250K":-

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport...13/08/19/kevin-doyle-urged-to-stay-at-wolves/

Now Scott McCabe is personally and explicitly confirming it was £250K...

It's £250K!

 

[davidpinder]

What DID Wolves pay for KM?


The answer is in the article BoS, £250,001..........not that it matters, he's gone, move on.

Exactly its in the article from our owner £250,001 end of chat

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Scott McCabe:- “We are not under pressure to sell any of our players and this deal strengthens that even more now,” he said. “The George Longs and the Harry Maguires, you can take a more aggressive stance if other clubs are interested. We are not in a weak position where we need to sell. "

It's strange how they've always said before it was not possible to keep players when bigger clubs make an offer.
Who would have thought that was total bullshit and it is actually possible, they just didn't want to!

 

[Balham]

because there were other interested parties, a release clause means they can speak to him not that they are entitled to buy at that price, just talk to him
real madrid were allowed tospeak to Bale after triggering the 50 million clause , they didnt have to double it using that argument

Bale didn't have a buy-out clause, you'll have to try again.

There were no other bids for Kevin McDonald and even if there were, Sheffield United would not have been in a position to start a bidding war because none of them would have paid over £250,001.

Scott McCabe:- “We are not under pressure to sell any of our players and this deal strengthens that even more now,” he said. “The George Longs and the Harry Maguires, you can take a more aggressive stance if other clubs are interested. We are not in a weak position where we need to sell. "

It's strange how they've always said before it was not possible to keep players when bigger clubs make an offer.
Who would have thought that was total bullshit and it is actually possible, they just didn't want to!

Like it or not, our financial position up until Tuesday was such that we couldn't really reject any decent offer and that's what Scott McCabe is alluding to.

I would have thought that United's approach would have been to have each player on the books valued and to accept any offer which met that value. That's not to say that we didn't make some horrendous decisions with any extra cash: Barry Robson's wages!

 

[oldblade]

OR given our results since his departure "not enough".

He's gone, he's been "replaced", so I guess the deal has balanced out whatever it was. If Wolves screwed us over I'm sure we repeated the trick with Oldham.

We were already losing matches before he left. He played against Burton and didn't exactly perform like a world beater. His performances for us have been pretty patchy for well over a year, and if the two games he played for us this season are anything to go by, that inconsistency was likely to continue.

 

[blade too long]

we sold him for an undisclosed fee , no one but the secretaries know for sure, is my position on it
or are his wages in public domain as well

When we needed macdonald to perform , in 2 play offs , he disappeared, so I too dont get the hysteria around his departure, a video of his goals last season is one of the shortest film clips since Mrcus Bent the return

 

[judge]

Move on

 

[blade too long]

Like it or not, our financial position up until Tuesday was such that we couldn't really reject any decent offer and that's what Scott McCabe is alluding to.

So MCcABE HAD NO IDEA HE WAS ON THE VERGE OF GETTING THIS INVESTMENT
he asked him the day before it was announced

 

[Pedro Verde]

we sold him for an undisclosed fee , no one but the secretaries know for sure, is my position on it

So are you saying the owners of neither club know for sure
Who were the other interested parties you havent answered that question

 

[Sothall_Blade]

We sold him for an undisclosed fee , no one but the secretaries know for sure, is my position on it

So are you saying the owners of neither club know for sure

Scott McCabe thinks he knows the fee but does he chuff.
Ethel from the typing pool arranged it all with her counterpart at Wolves and she's not telling..
"Undisclosed is undisclosed and that's the way it's staying" says Ethel.

 

[blade too long]

no Im saying its undisclosed, that is its not been made public

 

[raul]

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[judge]

no Im saying its undisclosed, that is its not been made public

how do you know this to be true ?

 

[moDtheGod]

He played against Burton and didn't exactly perform like a world beater.

Because he knew he was off to Wolves...

 

[blade too long]

how do you know this to be true ?

its on the bbc, and the ocws as undisclosed

 

[blade too long]

Because he knew he was off to Wolves...

so we are lucky to get rid if hes that unprofessional

 

[SwissBlade]

Give over. If the clause was £250,001 then that will be what they paid. I thought it would be higher but there you go.

Although Suarez had a 40m clause and 40m plus a quid was knocked back. Fellaini's was 23.5 but Man U paid 27

 

[Balham]

Although Suarez had a 40m clause and 40m plus a quid was knocked back. Fellaini's was 23.5 but Man U paid 27

Neither of those situations matches McDonald's.


The Suárez clause was carefully worded: Liverpool only had to inform him of any bids over £40m - they didn't have to accept them.

Fellaini's clause expired on July 31st. Apparerently, Man U only paid £23.5m anyway with the extra £4m Everton reported being loyalty bonuses they didn't have to pay Fellaini as he handed in a transfer request.

The best big example I can think of is Javi Martínez of Bayern. Athletic Bilbao didn't want to sell so Bayern met his €40m buy-out clause, taking the decision out of Athletic's hands.