Adama Traore - CONFIRMED

[kippaxvilla2]

Howard Hodgson has tweeted the fee as £4.2m done deal

Surely that's just the up front bit and there will be add ons. The kid looks insanely good.

Apparently his release clause is 6m euros, which would equate to around £4.2m.

And as we've all learned over the summer, if there's a release clause then it's difficult to negotiate too much more around it.

Can they demand more than the release clause value though?

[Dave]

Howard Hodgson has tweeted the fee as £4.2m done deal

Surely that's just the up front bit and there will be add ons. The kid looks insanely good.

Apparently his release clause is 6m euros, which would equate to around £4.2m.

And as we've all learned over the summer, if there's a release clause then it's difficult to negotiate too much more around it.

Can they demand more than the release clause value though?

We're currently in a bidding war with Stoke and Liverpool.

[mike]

On the Stoke Oafcake forum they reckon if they'd have signed Traore that they would "loan him to a club like Villa"! Getting a bit above their station aren't they??

On twitter they think that once he lands in the UK they are going to hijack the deal as they are the bigger club.

I went to Stoke once, it is a hole.

Whilst you are both right, somehow Stoke have become a more capable football team than us and will most likely finish above us again. I honestly struggle to work out how it ever got quite this bad.

[cdbearsfan]

"Bidding Wars" sounds like one of those shows they have on the History Channel since they stopped showing history programmes.

[adrenachrome]

Howard Hodgson has tweeted the fee as £4.2m done deal

Surely that's just the up front bit and there will be add ons. The kid looks insanely good.

Apparently his release clause is 6m euros, which would equate to around £4.2m.

And as we've all learned over the summer, if there's a release clause then it's difficult to negotiate too much more around it.

Can they demand more than the release clause value though?

We're currently in a bidding war with Stoke and Liverpool.

Yes. There is a sliding release clause aka the slipppery slope release with happy ending. This allows for inflation, deflation, stagflation, ruination and erectile dysfunction. It is index-linked to a basket of currencies and indicies and hedged by credit default swaps.

[kippaxvilla2]

Talking of bidding wars the best bit of business surely has to be Veretout getting him as we did for £3.5m less than someone else offered for him.

[OCD]

The timing does appear interesting - Stoke confirm Shakira and very quickly there's strong talk of this deal. Maybe Stoke had him as a back-up option if the Shakira deal broke down and as soon as it was done, it opened things up for us to get him.

Can't believe I'm talking about us being a back-up option to Stoke but there you go. May just be a coincidence too.

[Dante Lavelli]

For contrast here is the equivalent video of Everton's chap from Barcelona:

I'd say the Traore one is at least as good and Everton are delighted to have signed him on a permanent deal (I think).

[PeterWithesShin]

We should offer them a a couple of mill more than the buy out price, that way he'll know we want him more than the other clubs do!

[paul_e]

For contrast here is the equivalent video of Everton's chap from Barcelona:

I'd say the Traore one is at least as good and Everton are delighted to have signed him on a permanent deal (I think).

See whenever I've seen him I've always thought he looked a bit weak for English football, Traore is a bit of a beast so is probably better suited to the league.

[cdbearsfan]

If we haggle up above the release clause price, they might let us keep the gourd for free.

[PeterWithesShin]

We should bid below the release clause, it will confuse them so much they'll throw in Messi as well.

[damon loves JT]

I quite like Trentham Monkey Forest. That's near Stoke. Wouldn't recommend it to Traore though as, being Spanish, the Barbary Macaques would undoubtedly make him really angry by taunting him about Gibraltar's constitutional status.

My nose uncle once took me in his car to a safari park. Baboons removed and ate his windscreen wipers. As a season ticket holder he must have been used to that sort of thing.

[cdbearsfan]

I quite like Trentham Monkey Forest. That's near Stoke. Wouldn't recommend it to Traore though as, being Spanish, the Barbary Macaques would undoubtedly make him really angry by taunting him about Gibraltar's constitutional status.

My nose uncle once took me in a stolen car to a safari park. Baboons removed and ate his windscreen wipers. As a season ticket holder he must have been used to that sort of thing.

Fixed.

[PeterWithesShin]

I quite like Trentham Monkey Forest. That's near Stoke. Wouldn't recommend it to Traore though as, being Spanish, the Barbary Macaques would undoubtedly make him really angry by taunting him about Gibraltar's constitutional status.

My nose uncle once took me in his car to the sty. The locals removed and ate his windscreen wipers. As a season ticket holder he must have been used to that sort of thing.

Fixed properly.