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Blues Edge Closer to Webster and Moore Sell-On Windfalls
Friday, 2nd Aug 2019 15:37

Town could be about to receive further sell-on windfalls with ex-striker Kieffer Moore reportedly closing in on a £4 million switch from Barnsley to Wigan Athletic, while Adam Webster gets nearer to his £20 million move from Bristol City to Brighton.

The Blues are understood to be due 10 per cent of the profit the Tykes make on Moore, who Town sold to the South Yorkshiremen for £750,000 in January 2018, an estimated £325,000, although his former club Forest Green Rovers will be entitled to a percentage of that figure, perhaps as much as 20 per cent having picked up a six-figure sum from the big frontman's previous move.

Meanwhile, Webster’s widely reported move from the Robins to the Seagulls is getting closer with the clubs said to have agreed a fee believed to be £22 million for the 24-year-old centre-half.

Webster joined the Robins from Town for an initial £3.5 million last summer with the fee potentially rising to £8 million and some of those top-ups are almost certain to have been paid over the course of last season.

TWTD understands the sell-on clause in that deal is just below the previously reported 10 per cent, while Portsmouth would be due 20 per cent of anything the Blues receive as a result of their sell-on from the 2016 move which saw Webster join Town and Matt Clarke move to Fratton Park.

Therefore, if the reported £22 million is the initial fee, Town appear likely to receive an initial sum somewhere between £1 million and £1.5 million after Pompey's percentage has been accounted for with further cash after any top-ups there may be in the Bristol City-Brighton deal.

Bristol City had put a price tag of £30 million on Webster, but even in an inflated market it appeared very unlikely that they would achieve anything approaching that figure for the ex-Pompey man, who has never played in the Premier League.

Town have already received one sell-on windfall from a move to Brighton this summer via Clarke's switch from Portsmouth with the Blues believed to have yielded £770,000 from that switch. Clarke joined Derby on loan for the season earlier today.

Tyrone Mings’s move from AFC Bournemouth to Aston Villa for an initial £20 million plus potentially another £6.5 million saw the Blues receive £1.2 million now with that windfall potentially reaching £1.85 million.

However, with the Blues' income having been reduced by £9 million due to relegation to League One - having made an operating loss of £8.39 million in the financial year to June 2018 in line with most recent Championship seasons - manager Paul Lambert says he's not seen any of it.

“Mings, Clarke, maybe Webster, we haven’t bought one player,” the Blues boss said at this morning's press conference.

“I don’t know if the money has come in, nobody has told me it has come in. I don’t know.”

He added: “Whatever way those deals were structured before I came in, whenever the money comes in, it could be three years' time down the line, four years down the line, it could be now, I don’t know.

"But you haven’t seen one player I’ve bought, I’ve not bought a player.”


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BlueandTruesince82 added 17:57 - Aug 2
Does anyone know how payments are structured.

IE if for example the Webster fee in instalments I assume we get our % also instalments?
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BeattiesBackPocket added 18:25 - Aug 2
Nhabo so why's evans hiding behind it then and his supporters? That would show he doesn't give a sh!t then which is people's point
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grinch added 18:50 - Aug 2
Why doesn't PL just work with the team/squad he has they were all championship players last year so should be able to handle this league. I just think it is excuse time as PL knows he must win more games as his record at town is extremely poor he is great at promoting and saying how wonderful the supporters are but then bemoans his squad which is not good for players morale. not sure players also see him as a draw to come to town in fact players like Judge want to leave so not sure if what we see and hear of PL is as good for the team inside the ground. There will be a Hirst moment in Oct if his results don't change maybe that's why he is saying such things it should all be positive in a lower division with what is a championship squad that most of the other teams would be envious of lets get some reality in place.
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shouldistayorcounago added 18:55 - Aug 2
I don't think anyone is asking for Evans to throw money around, what we're asking for is players in positions we need.

Aside from Norwood we've made no inroads in signing anyone. Yes we have a couple of loans and a short-term deal for Wilson, but that is not enough.

We're fortunate that there are already two teams on minus 12 points as we could be shaky for a good few games with the bare bones squad we've got.

The most frustrating thing about all of this is the complete bull Evans fed us at the end of the season. He's shifted our top earner off the wage bill, trimmed a lot of those surplus to requirements and some I suspect could have been handy, and brought almost nothing in to supplement what we have. If Lambo walks I won't blame him.

Unfortunately with the squad we have at present and the lack of progress we have made in bolstering our defence, we'll do well to finish top 10.

Fingers crossed we can sneak a win tomorrow.
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tigglefish1975 added 20:15 - Aug 2
Why even bother posting irrelevant stuff for! What concern is it of the supporters it's just to off set the loses and does nothing but pi** fans off
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ITFCsince73 added 20:18 - Aug 2
Jonas come back all is forgiven...and if you can find the polish fella, bring him along to.
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Cakeman added 20:26 - Aug 2
NO it will be ‘Evans' that edges closer to windfalls, not The Blues!
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DifferentGravy added 20:27 - Aug 2
Evans is not gonna spend a penny. Clearly thought he could use this club as a tax relief and, naively, a quick profit with an immediate return to the premiership. Didnt pan out. Now hes trying to run it as a straight down the line business. Unfortunately football is one of those unique(ridiculous) businesses where its all or nothing. Hes just relying on the youth to dig us out. But eventually (and as unlikely as it is)unless theres an Ed Sheeran or A.N.Other to buy him out, he is going to have to dig into his pocket and spend some cash on transfers. Otherwise its a slow and steady decline.

Seriously question how a self made millionaire got himself into football club ownership. Idiot.
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dukey44 added 20:49 - Aug 2
Seriously who cares? We get NO BENEFIT what's so ever. I still want to see this jerk of an owner explain what the future holds just as he promised in his only face to face interview? How can we NOT TRUST the OWNER OF OUR CLUB!!!!! Makes u feel mad!!!
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ChimayBlue added 22:31 - Aug 2
Evans tool
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BeattiesBackPocket added 00:26 - Aug 3
Grinch are you for real? Championship squad!? That's why we was related then was it you do realise we got relegated right so would show we DONT have a championship squad? Are you supposed to be on the budgie site?
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KernewekBlue added 00:31 - Aug 3
Grinch... let's not be fooled again that it is the manager who is at fault for our precarious league position.

The main protagonist in all our woes is Evans... the buck begins, ends and stops with him!

He is a parasite who deserves to be nowhere near our beloved football club. The sooner he gets the message that he is not wanted at this club and puts it up for sale, the happier we can all be.

#EvansOut #WorstFCOwner #FootballClubForSale
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Felstow1978 added 07:31 - Aug 3
Just goes to show - yet again - that McCarthy certainly knew how to find a gem.
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Linkboy13 added 09:10 - Aug 3
More cash for the Evans piggy bank oink oink.
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