29 Dec 2014 14:26:03
i know we have Eljero Elia on loan with a view to buy.
would the fee already been set for the summer ?
i heard £4 million. but if he has a brilliant 5 months and sets the premier league alight, would breman treble the fee ?

1.) 29 Dec 2014
I believe an option to buy in contract is usually just that. A contract is legally binding. Although i have heard there may be problems with doing so with toby but this is very unusual. the ins and outs i do not know but i seem to recall athletico having a way of possibly worming out of the option to buy. This is very uncommon though. I expect if Godin is sold which seems Athletico will try to do exactly that and worm of it. I will try find out the exact details and re post.

2.) 29 Dec 2014
The was a rumour that they had a clause that they could cancel our buy option by giving us £1.6 million.

I am pretty sure this made up.

It is generally assumed that we have options to buy on our loan (Bertrand £10m, Toby £6.5m, and now Elia at ~£4m) however as far as i'm aware noone from saints has confirmed this, at least not officially, so these are just speculation aswell.
I hope we have the options as they look like bargins now, i assume we would have wanted something in the contract!

3.) 05 Jan 2015
05 Jan 2015 22:48:09
I agree with what you said but mate, if would be too good to be true if we bought Toby Alderweireld for £6.5m. Worth about £20m but would be amazing if we bought him.