Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
I'm guessing that all Nantes are doing is asking for payment as per the contract for the sale of the player, which they're perfectly entitled to do.
Assuming that we had insurance in place then we'll try to cover the fee by claiming on that policy.
Might be a £15m hole in our finances for a while but that's how I see it.
Exactly, let’s hope our insurances are all ok and he was included immediately on them. If they’re not, we deserve to take the hit, it’d be incompetence. Only thing you can criticise Nantes and perhaps Bordeaux is that the timing is a bit insensitive.