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I would suggest that is what he means though. It does make the most sense - and is the player that fits with all of the ITK musings.
But I mean that's solved by a simple number, right? As long as 60% of that number makes Celtic happy then we have a deal.
That or option B you structure it as a loan so we kick the can down the road with an option for us to buy at a certain price (and most likely they'll want to force us to purchase at that price, at which stage we'd probably make it unconditional if the team get CL or the player reaches milestones or some other thing I just pulled out of thick air). A lot of maybes in that.
I mean, it's got to be something like option B otherwise it would have just been done by now.
Your right there is something potentially do able here for Eduoard, we did it with Lo Celso so Real Betis got a better cut and the team that lost out was funnily enough was also PSG. e.g. we agree a more than normal high Loan fee for a year that has a compulsory purchase amount at the end, therefore PSG would only get the percentage cut of the compulsory purchase and not percentage from the loan fee. So if the price for eduoard for illustration purposes is 30M, rather than agreeing 30M and PSG get a cut from the whole amount, we do a 1 year loan fee at 12M and a compulsory purchase at 18M, therefor PSG only get their percentage of from the 18M and not the 12M loan fee (numbers are arbitrary just for example sake )