retired_mgmgfns3

IMO the murky world of football financing could be fixed easily if all financial transactions involving a club had to use their FA as an intermediary. It would help prevent dodgy transfer deals, 3rd party influences and backhanders to agents and managers.

dejasade

Yeah SI have done the same with tevez, it just says he's a man utd player, when utd still have a lot to pay for him. Yet another SI shortcut </BLOCKQUOTE>

it doesn't say he's co-owned because he's not co-owned.

retired_workman1

Fixed

retired_thejivemachine

Easy fix for SI...

Put the players on loan from West Ham and give them a sell on clause of something like 95% going to a third party so West Ham get nothing for them when they leave.

retired_katysdodd

But when the loan ends they would go back to West Ham. West Ham have no rights over the players IRL anymore so this wouldn't be right either.

Unless SI coded 3rd parties into the game (not a great idea, as it's something that people are trying to eradicate) this is the best way to do it. As it stands, Liverpool and Man United receive very little should they sell the players (80% goes to 'a third party') which is about fair.

It's hardly a massive part of the game - I think these two along with Manuel Fernandes - are the only arrangements of this type which I have heard of, and to be fair I'd imagine many people are in the same boat because it was so prominant in the papers over the summer.