Re: Birmingham interested in Oxlade-Chamberlain
Le ModSnoopNouCampah ok, we reported the initial loan deal as an option to buy but guess it was an obligation and we didnt announce it as such
I rad somewhere that actual loans with obligations aren't a thing.
Accountancy wise you'd have to recognise the cost of the transfer at the start of the loan regardless if it is a true obligation.
They're usually forms of conditional options with really easy to meet conditions (like Sampsted's relegation clause, which it probably was with TGH as well), or push and pull transfers (club loaning in can buy them for x amount, or the loaning out can sell to them for x amount - neither can block the move if the other activates it).
Yeah but in the context of this conversation he was always signing, we didn't make a decision on him in January is my point.
I wasn't disagreeing - more of a nerdy point about how the obligations actually work in practice.