Bet they've Luongo'd us as mentioned elsewhere
Funny you should say that, here are the views of Derby fans who concur that may well have happened.
Pretty much exactly the way I see it, bar your observations on Jayden's fee. It appears Bogle's price may be being marked down with Lowe's artificially inflated by the corresponding amount. Swindon have a significant sell-on percentage due to them, so selling Jayden for £5M vs £10M would effectively halve the fee payable. It won't be the first time this has happened, nor the last.
It's not a practice I'm entirely in favour of, if I'm honest, but if we accept that in this financial climate, needs must, then as long as we get £10M+ add-on's for the pair of them, Jayden's sell price is moot. That said, there is a rub...
Moral considerations aside, I'm not entirely certain this is fiscally prudent as it may well mean that for a while at least, we will find structuring deals with a lower upfront figure far harder. if clubs are aware that if we can wriggle out of part or even all of the fee, we will, they'll be reticent to offer such terms. That would mean not only higher upfront fees, but also a heightened risk profile as a consequence.
I hope this is being considered carefully. I don't recall the sell-on % Swindon applied, but at 15%, we'd only actually be saving £750K. My fear is that this may end up costing us a deal more in the long run than we save in the short term, unless of course, our scouting and recruitment is bombproof moving forwards. A lesser consideration, but a consideration nonetheless, would be that it also gives that absolute toilet of a newspaper, the Daily Fail, that bamford Gibson and all our other detractors, yet another opportunity to drag our name through the mud, rightly or wrongly.
And some more views, the best of the rest condensed.
No, no, no! £12m for Lowe, £3m for Bogle so just around 500k for Swindon. That is unless a compromise deal was done with Swindon since Bogles' transfer - then the fees would be the other way round.
£14mil for Max Lowe and £1mil for Jayden Bogle would be good, sorry Swindon.
Not noticed anyone panicking but there's some concern simply because if Bogle goes for anywhere near £10m in a joint £15m deal, potentially that could mean between £2m and £3m to Swindon by way of a sell-on fee.
If we inflate the Lowe value to avoid sell on fees to Swindon for Bogle, Swindon might complain to the EFL threatening legal action so the EFL charge us for fudging P&S over valuations of players based with no firm case. Not sure where I’ve seen this before?
We aren't going to RIP swindon off. Can we just nip that in the bud at this point.
When the deals goes through I'm sure we will have all sorts of fans from our club and others spamming Swindon twitter telling them 100% they have been ripped off by the devil that is dcfc.
Utter rubbish. Nothing but speculation and very damaging speculation at that. Any of our fans repeating and reporting that we are doing this as fact is potentially sowing seeds for your above scenario to happen. Although with some of our fans I think they would secretly love it to happen.
I'll take 1m for Bogle and 19m for Lowe. Don't want Swindon taking all our fee.
I sincerely hope that DCFC haven't structured the deal in a way that stiffs Swindon. Think it sets a dangerous precendent and would make other clubs reluctant to deal with us for young talent in the future.
In an environment where we're all complaining that the Prem money doesn't trickle down as much as it should, we should be setting an example of how to do business here.
I don't think Mel is that type of guy. Accountancy 'loopholes' yes, fiddling lower league clubs, no.