And there are steep legal fees as well to consider, which will balloon even more if it goes to appeal, and JKA takes court action. Worst case scenario we might be talking around £40m for those 50 minutes of an unfit overweight player trundling around a football pitch.
The £35m that you mentioned would equate to £700,000 per minute...Even Risdale's regime didn't manage something as absurd as this and with this degree of financial profligacy.
Whoever approved the contract needs to be sacked. Someone must have approved it before it reached Radz. I suspect that this might have been a consequence of not having an obligation to buy clause in the Ben White loan deal. Maybe Orta was kicking himself given how well White was playing at that time, so he was determined to make amends in the next loan deal.
I suspect Kinnear was more the financial man with guidance from Orta.
After all Angus as Chief Executive is ultimately the boss of LUFC day to day and I find it hard to believe Orta is allowed to negotiate complicated financial things by himself.
One scenario if JKA comes looking for his wages as he is entitled to do may be to offer to pay the difference between his salary now and what we agreed?
So FC Basel wage bill is according to my research about £30mil a year which is approximately a mid table Championship club.
So let's say JKA earns an average Championship player salary which is apparently in the £30-35k mark.
Between that and our £90-95k agreed salary is approximately a £60k difference.
Over 5 years that is a loss of £15million, anyone would look for that sort of difference.
If you had agreed a £200k salary and your previous employers had been found liable whilst you earned £40k a year instead any normal person would chase the difference.
Same scenario here imo.
So best case scenario is he comes for nothing.
But if he does and he comes for the full whack which is over £20mil.
We look at the difference which is around £15mil.
And we offer him something in that sort of range.
Saves us millions but still a significant fee.
