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Chelsea let Lamptey go cheaply as they didn’t have any other choice. His contract was up in the summer and he wasn’t going to sign the new deal they’d offered him. He was about to sign a pre-contract agreement with a French club which would have meant no transfer fee at all. We got in and...

I’m not sure it’s going to matter who is England manager in 2026 I can guarantee Pedro will not make the England squad.

As I mentioned previously Pascal Gross made his final Ingolstadt appearance the day after his transfer to us was announced. Also an injury doesn’t necessarily stop a medical taking place. It looks at way more than just their so called match fitness and looks for underlying medical conditions as...

A career ending injury would likely be covered by the insurance of which ever club he played for at the time so would be different and would probably mean we’d not have to pay any transfer fee. In the case of Cardiff and Sala he’d already signed and completed the medical and the fact a dodgy...

It works the same as any other contract, once signed its done and requires a lot of legal wrangling and lengthy court cases etc to get out of. The transfer window actually just applies to the registration of the player and being able to move it from one club to another.

You can agree a transfer fee with a club and a contract with a player at anytime. The move is then only completed when the registration of the player can be transferred once the buying clubs transfer window happens, but once the deal is agreed and signed everything is legally binding (subject to...

We tried to sign Nunez when he ended up joining Benfica. Would have still commanded a £30 million fee and we seemed willing to bid somewhere near that. He chose Benfica over us as we had finished just outside the relegation zone and they obviously had CL football. Now with two top 10 finishes...