Quote Originally Posted by qccfc View Post
I would have taken a guess that it would have been a deal favouring the club over the player, the deal happened too quickly with the club also not looking to move the player on. If you look at the other players released we desperately try to offload them for a couple of transfer windows before we bight the bullet.
Sounds right to me - it seems that, far from paying £2 million for Immers, we may not have paid a transfer fee for him at all. This piece from yesterday

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/c...mmers-12432373

includes the following

"According to the Bluebirds hierarchy, Immers actually arrived on a free transfer from Feyenoord, so they didn't feel duty bound to recoup any fee paid to the Dutch club."

It may not have worked out in the end for Immers here, but, given how he played last season, if it's true we got him for nothing, then it has to be seen as good work by the much derided (including by myself) transfer committee.