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Originally Posted by Damien
Based on what? You're saying they would turn down a £60 million bid? £100 million bid? If United come in with an offer Barcelona like they can accept. I think we can all agree that an acceptable bid would be less than £200 million so the clause is pointless.
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Exactly.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's a legal requirement to have a release clause in a contract in Spain. When a club buys a player they don't intend selling them on again so just put a stupid number for the clause. It's only players that come through the youth systems that are likely to have reasonable release clauses. They don't ward off interest as we have seen, they are pointless and people read into them far too much.