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How transfers are priced
Amortisation, instalments, release clauses, sell-on shares and agent fees: the layers that sit on top of a headline transfer fee. Plain English.
A fee is not an expense on the day it is signed. It is capitalised, written down over the contract, and layered with instalments, add-ons, agent fees and sell-on shares.
- Amortisation: the annual charge a fee becomes
- Release clauses: what makes them enforceable
- Instalments and add-ons: cash timing versus accounting
- Sell-on shares: how a future fee is split
How transfer fee amortisation works Release clauses and buy-out terms Instalments: how cash flow differs from the fee Agent fees and commission structures Sell-on clauses, loans and swap deals
How transfer fee amortisation works
Why a transfer fee is spread across contract years, how book value falls and what a sale does to the accounts.
Release clauses and buy-out terms
What a release clause really is, how it interacts with negotiating power and why it is not a simple price tag.
Instalments: how cash flow differs from the fee
Upfront payments, staged instalments and add-ons — why the headline fee is not the cash that moves.
Agent fees and commission structures
Who pays an intermediary, how commissions are calculated and why agent costs sit outside the headline fee.
Sell-on clauses, loans and swap deals
Percentage sell-ons, loan fees, options to buy and player exchanges: structures that move value without a simple transfer.