Who would want him? Hasn't played a full season in years, had 2 major injuries and doesn't look to be pulling up trees here. He won't get a better contract than he is on now.
Or we tried getting him on the cheap knowing we had a percentage stake in any potential transfer, so we tried for 40% less than market value.
Was there any transfer speculation about Townsend before we started making noises? Much like max championship clark it's a deal that's worked out well for us.
I think you have to be balanced in all situations and in this case, in my opinion, it was win/win. I'd have liked CT back at a fair price, but instead, we've probably just cobbled some cash together for another 300k transfer fee from nowhere. Possibly, without our interest, he could have remained at Scunny, ran out his contract and we'd have got **** all.
The team who comes last in the Premier League gets about 100 million and then another 85 million in parachute payments, and we are bigging up deals we have done for 2 - 3 hundred grand. Wow.