Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
Didn't City try to do something similar a few years ago?
Buy a player on the cheap but agree with the selling club to play a full 'release' addition if we got promoted and sell back if we didn't.
I seem to remember VT threatening to go to court for restriction of trade or something when the league stopped it.
My memory is failing me, but I think it was in the very early Eighties we signed a guy (who’s name I forget), from an American club (I think it was… or maybe Canadian), for a club record fee of about Ł300,000 (or something like that).
He was very skilful (I do remember that 🤭), but we sold him back to the American/Canadian club for exactly the amount we paid for him (Ł300k?) after about a month (or 2), having played a handful of games.
Or I could be mistaken 🤣