Hi Damian, listen, you've worked hard for us and we'd like you to stay and can give you a contract now that guarantees you and your family securityfor the next year in the unlikely event that no-one else offers you acceptable terms or you get hit by a bus tomorrow...now, we wont stop you leaving for another club if one comes in and we wont ask for a fee and we'll put that into your contract...all we will ask the club you want to go to is that they agree to a sell on fee if that club should ever sell you on....
Oh yeah....no way any player in the world would agree to that......and no club is going to sign damian under such unreasonable terms...
would morecambe have been put off taking jack redshaw for nothing if we'd insisted on claiming 10% of any fee they got if they ever sold him on?....
...sorry is it me?
? must be losing my marbles coz it makes sense to me... clearly we should just give up now and let the lad go for nothing....
maybe damian would gain nothing....apart from the security of a contract under his belt....but it would cost him nothing and would be a nice way of him of him doing the club that has given him his chance to shine a favour....