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https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/24107010.middlesbroughs-matt-crooks-joining-real-salt-lake-mls/ Says significant fee on here. I'm sure one of the journos said 3.5-4mil on twitter. Would have to have been a lot more than 500k to sell when we couldn't replace.

a lot of the stuff online at the moment looks like its around the same we paid for him 

im sure i read 500k

they are heavily negotiated and normally based on the player matching/exceeding potential, not based on the club just maintaining what they are already upto or likley to do. your not going to be able to just pick things they are likely to do with or without the player anyways, like how many deals to manchester city agree to paying more money if they qualify for the champions league, they aint going to agree to it as the only likely way they don't qualify is most likely due to an FFP situation rather than how they play on the pitch. they are going to likley to agree to pay you more if they play 100/150/200 games for the club or score loads of goals as they are in control of that payment and also it gives value for money for the payment too.  with rogers they are more likely going to be based on achieving stats that make him worth more to the club, like scoring a set amount of goals, playing a set amount of games, playing a set amount of international games, club achievements based on him being involved by a certain % of games played/started - not just what the club does with or without him (epically when he had a decent chance of not stepping up and being sat on the side lines while the club is still doing well enough without him to trigger these payments). we would always push for items that are more likely to be achieved, but the buying club is going to try and make them as hard as possible, and most likely each payment represents an amount of potential achieved that means year we are happy to pay you an extra 1-5m for this player because he is now one of our star players. I can't imagine they agreed to anything that can be achieved in half a season, epically when he was played only started 8 games so far

They had only just qualified from the group stages and while west ham won last season it would still be a huge gamble on our part to have add one related to them winning a European competition.