January Transfer Window - The Verdict.

[Footy-Vill]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

[Footy-Vill]

I thought it was common knowledge that Ings or Mings had to be sold because it's impossible to distinguish between the two names when said in Spanish. This led to tactical confusion with Mings thinking he had to find the attacker and Ings believing he was being told to give it to the nearest defender. This is why we will only be buying Spanish speakers except in goal when Scouse-Skandies are the exception that proves the rule agreed to by 83% of us... I mean me.

That is pretty good SP! Good jesting.
I don't know what a Scouses Skandi is though?

[ChicagoLion]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

You really think that they chuck in flights for people being paid tens of thousands per week?
Please stop making stuff up.

[Risso]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

That's an entirely different thing and would just be part of their overall remuneration package.

[Footy-Vill]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

You really think that they chuck in flights for people being paid tens of thousands per week?
Please stop making stuff up.

100% they do I heard it and popular with Brazilian players.  Not saying Villa.
I think Jesus had such a clause as did/does Neymar

[brontebilly]

It does demonstrate a ruthless streak that Ings started and played nearly an hour vs Leeds and then sold.

More than likely mate WHU put down an attractive offer and we took their hands off. Ings was anonymous in that game which probably proved to Emery we needed a different type of forward anyway. Brave decision as easiest thing to do would be to keep Ings until the summer.

Next big contract decisions coming up are on Watkins and McGinn. Watkins is a no brainer to extend for me. McGinn might attract some tempting offers in the summer. Personally I'd look to extend his deal. He's a Villa legend like Mings for starters, back to playing near his best under Emery and no reason he can't improve further. But club might look at likes of A Ramsey & Iroegbunam development, we will certainly be signing Guendouzi or similar type midfield player in the summer too. Is McGinn expendable if the right offer comes in? 29 later this year and those trips to Dublin can't be great for his hamstrings 😅

[Drummond]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

You really think that they chuck in flights for people being paid tens of thousands per week?
Please stop making stuff up.

100% they do I heard it and popular with Brazilian players.  Not saying Villa.
I think Jesus had such a clause as did/does Neymar

How would you know that?

[Kevin Dawson]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

You really think that they chuck in flights for people being paid tens of thousands per week?
Please stop making stuff up.

100% they do I heard it and popular with Brazilian players.  Not saying Villa.
I think Jesus had such a clause as did/does Neymar

How would you know that?

For goodness sake Footy, there weren't any planes 2000 years ago. Even if there were, I doubt Nazareth Town F.C. would have included such a thing in a contract.

[paul_e]

Players can get all sorts of clauses.
I mean some players get clauses where they get the club to fly over their family or they can get flights back home to where the family live.

You really think that they chuck in flights for people being paid tens of thousands per week?
Please stop making stuff up.

100% they do I heard it and popular with Brazilian players.  Not saying Villa.
I think Jesus had such a clause as did/does Neymar

How would you know that?

For goodness sake Footy, there weren't any planes 2000 years ago. Even if there were, I doubt Nazareth Town F.C. would have included such a thing in a contract.

He didn't say anything about planes, just to fly family over, I'm imagining catapults and wings made from chicken feathers.

[Simon Page]

They can walk like everyone else, and no moaning about a little bit of sea being in the way either. Bloody non-Messiahs and their sense of boat entitlement.

[PeterWithesShin]

Surely Jesus could just walk there and back, it's not like the seas and oceans would slow him down.

[Footy-Vill]

Spanish outlet El Mundo revealed last year the stipulations Messi demanded to stay with Barcelona back in 2020, which included a private jet for his family to fly back to Argentina at Christmas, and a shared executive box at the Nou Camp for both his family and Luis Suarez’s.

“It amuses me. It is something very normal in any player. Suarez told Marca in September.

“If you check the contracts of any elite footballer, they should all have their box. I, for example, at Atletico Madrid, had mine; in Nacional, too."

[Drummond]

Spanish outlet El Mundo revealed last year the stipulations Messi demanded to stay with Barcelona back in 2020, which included a private jet for his family to fly back to Argentina at Christmas, and a shared executive box at the Nou Camp for both his family and Luis Suarez’s.

“It amuses me. It is something very normal in any player. Suarez told Marca in September.

“If you check the contracts of any elite footballer, they should all have their box. I, for example, at Atletico Madrid, had mine; in Nacional, too."

From Talksport...........:

The article headline: Ten of the strangest contract clauses in football – Firmino’s anti-Arsenal proviso and Prior’s sheep testicle deal but Suarez defended Messi over his leaked Barcelona demands

And Suarez defended the executive box he shared with Messi.

[ChicagoLion]

We have gone from the ridiculous idea that Ings had a mysterious and ruthless not play West Ham Clause to the justification of this being Messi and other elite footballers having additional benefits. Total nonsense.

[Footy-Vill]

We have gone from the ridiculous idea that Ings had a mysterious and ruthless not play West Ham Clause to the justification of this being Messi and other elite footballers having additional benefits. Total nonsense.

No it was that if Ings played against Southampton when at Villa we may have to pay extra in some sort of clause.