re: What exactly is going on with Pulisic?

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Thanks for proving you have no idea what you are talking about

He’s only 20, he can’t walk for free when his contract is up

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Madrid are reported to have offered this to the youngster, and are looking to pay a 'gesture fee' now amounting to £8million in order to bypass a tribunal.

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When they move to another club, that club must pay a tribunal fee a player of his caliber if he is worth £60 million on the last year or his deal will still cost who ever gets him a good amount. It’s to reward clubs for developing players and not getting hung to dry if they leave.

So you don’t know what you are talking about

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Maybe that was their thought process, and to be frank, the examples of tribunal fees for players under 20 are much more numerous than for players above 20, hence why I brought up the numerous Arsenal-Barcelona examples, but I can't seem to find other examples. Bayern didn't pay a fee for Goreztka, nor Palace for Meyer. Meyer and Goreztka were clearly developed by Schalke, yet there is no evidence that Schalke received any fees.

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Who would be owed money in Pulisic's case? He spent less than a year in Dortmunds academy, and though he technically counts as a graduate, we both know most of his technical education was in America. If I remember rightly, Tottenham paid a nominal fee for Lewis Holtby before he moved on a Bosman, but was that money distributed to Alemania Aachen, who developed him, or Schalke, who bought him?

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we have no idea, but he wouldn't go for pennies

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Which is it, you have no idea or he wouldn't go for pennies? Meyer went for pennies.

You're in here acting like a tribunal fee and a transfer fee are near equal value. Goretzka and Meyer walked on a free, their new clubs paid a tribunal fee. It's why Schalke has locked up all of their young talent until 2021-2022, because they realize they royally fricked up and obviously are not getting close to market value in the tribunal fees.

I wasn't proven anything. I just gave two examples of kids the same age leaving their home bundesliga club on a free, and you're in here saying shite like "good amount"

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In the market, that is what's known as a free transfer

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neither of which are a good as Pulisic, so you have no idea what he would be valued at in the tribunal

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The Professional Football Compensation Committee will set Solanke's cost based on a number of factors including his playing record, the terms of the contract offered to him, the length of time at his previous club and the interest shown by other teams.

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"The rules are very clear that you look at historic fact because future outcomes are irrelevant to his value at the day you sign him," football lawyer Dan Chapman told ESPN FC.

"Liverpool's argument would be that Chelsea failed to persuade him to sign a new contract for whatever reason and, therefore, can't look to what he's done since. "Potential isn't actually one of the factors.

The difficulty Chelsea have is demonstrating is that while he was at their club, he had this level of reputation that he would be worth a fortune."

He added: "Some clubs don't understand the system. They go for what they could think on a transfer on deadline day, but that's a different test and market. With a transfer player, you hold all the cards because he's under contract. You can ask for whatever you want. "If Chelsea were selling Solanke then I'm sure they could have got £10m. But they weren't selling him, he was a free agent."

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