A shame there isn't the buy back rule in the prem

in that a club sell a player they know is good to a smaller team, but reserve the right to buy said player back at an agreed moderately inflated price

ie, we'd buy Forster for ?500k, but Newcastle would reserve the right to buy him back for ?2m

Posted By: pants on April 13th 2010 at 10:28:54

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A bit promising, re FF? (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 13, 10:08:18
- Harper's cracking on a bit now, so I think Forster would have a chance there. (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 13, 10:40:44
  - and they have Krul. Dunno whether he's above FF in the pecking order there. (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 13, 10:46:46
- A shame there isn't the buy back rule in the prem (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 10:28:54
  - when did they get rid of that? (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Apr 13, 11:10:12
    - not altogether the same, or what I meant (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 11:17:56
      - How is it different? (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Apr 13, 11:26:20
        
        Real Madrid send their players out on buy back contracts (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 11:39:09
        
        Ah, I see - the article's a big vague on the details (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Apr 13, 12:15:07
        
        In future a lot of deals would circle around this kind of scenario (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 12:32:48
        
        Another example of real bringing a player back and then selling is Negredo (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 11:48:15
  - That sort of thing has happened before, hasnt it? I guess it's no different to a season lo (NCFC) - Yellalee, Apr 13, 10:42:56
    - I don't remember it if it has (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 11:09:33
  - cuckoo...cuckoo (n/m) (NCFC) - UtterlyHuckerby, Apr 13, 10:35:48
    - I am Kloot? (NCFC) - pants, Apr 13, 11:21:45

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