Munoz

[Teddy Eagle]

All clubs owe transfer fees - if the fee is scheduled to be paid over say 5 years, then it is not a problem.
When a club fails to pay another club as per the agreed schedule then a transfer embargo is usually put in place.
Football has quite strong punishment for clubs that fail to pay other clubs as else the pyramid would soon collapse. For example any club in administration must pay all football debts at 100%, without a discount.

If Munoz was to leave (and he is 29) then IMHO Gusto at Chelsea would be an obvious replacement. Much younger and very forward thinking. Unfortunately i suspect Chelsea will want top dollar despite him not being a regular (they bought him for c£30m).

Yes but if they've owed that much for the past four years we'd be unlikely to see much money for quite a while.

 

[NMPalace]

Yes but if they've owed that much for the past four years we'd be unlikely to see much money for quite a while.

Not necessarily - a selling club can request to front load the payment terms, whereas it is in the interests of the buying club to defer as much as possible.

Say Munoz went for £30m on a 5 year contract. So standard payment terms might be £6m per year for 5 years. Palace could request say £15m upfront etc. Barca would probably try and get more paid later in the contract. That's part of the negotiation.

Palace do it too - i believe in our last accounts we owe over £100m in transfer fees

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Not necessarily - a selling club can request to front load the payment terms, whereas it is in the interests of the buying club to defer as much as possible.

Say Munoz went for £30m on a 5 year contract. So standard payment terms might be £6m per year for 5 years. Palace could request say £15m upfront etc. Barca would probably try and get more paid later in the contract. That's part of the negotiation.

Palace do it too - i believe in our last accounts we owe over £100m in transfer fees

Fair enough, you know more about these things than I do. Still seems likely that the clubs who have been owed for years would get paid before us though.

 

[Badger11]

All clubs owe transfer fees - if the fee is scheduled to be paid over say 5 years, then it is not a problem.
When a club fails to pay another club as per the agreed schedule then a transfer embargo is usually put in place.
Football has quite strong punishment for clubs that fail to pay other clubs as else the pyramid would soon collapse. For example any club in administration must pay all football debts at 100%, without a discount.

If Munoz was to leave (and he is 29) then IMHO Gusto at Chelsea would be an obvious replacement. Much younger and very forward thinking. Unfortunately i suspect Chelsea will want top dollar despite him not being a regular (they bought him for c£30m).

I think the point of the article was not that Barcelona have defaulted but that they have strong out the payments over many years.

I can't see Palace accepting an offer which would not be paid back until say 5 years. I think Barcelona have struggled recently to buy players because clubs are fed up with their transfer strategy.

 

[Spindle]

Putting my Steve Parish tin foil hat on for a minute......
Munoz is 30 this coming May.
26 million for a 30 year old is very good business. Especially when we payed so little. 🙊

He's a Duracell bunny defying his age. Forget it.