Originally posted by pineapple stu
How many players will leave for England for that sort of money or anything close to it though? The most anyone's left Ireland for is around E200000 (Noel Hunt to Dunfermline). which was exceptional. You'd be talking half that again as a decent sum. 10% is only 10k. Still a nice bit of money, but then again, how often is it going to happen, especially in this world of Bosmans?

We have a sell-on clause in Ciarán Martyn's transfer, though - 50%!!! I thought he was out of contract when he left, in which case it's possible that you can put in sell-on clauses in Bosman transfers for players under 23. Does that make any sense???
Okay, if you're gonna be so smart about it:

That's another drawback of the one year contract dealie - if we were able to actually sell players we could bung in a 50% sell on clause just in case whoever we're selling goes for a big amount at some stage. So if Doyler was bought tomorrow by Southampton or someone for €100,000 we'd get fifty grand which is worth two Jay Byrnes...had we've had even one this season we'd be challenging for Europe!