I think the bottom line is that each club needs to adapt, exploit, prevent exploitation to each of the rules regulations and place in the food chain that exists.
I'm only interested in MFC. We need to maximise every situation in our interest.
We exploited the cross border non compensation loophole with Porter and I imagine that will be used by us in the Humphrey case as mitigation as it was exactly the same scenario. In my opinion the result will be a rule change or a new rule may be implemented due to Shrewsbury pursuing this through FIFA. if FIFA side with Shrews we may find that Oldham will creep out of the woodwork.
wrt to everything else - as a club we need to be a shrewd or shrewder than the rest. We need to ensure we get transfers coming into the club from the product of our youth system and that means that we need to get creative on how we tailor contracts llike I've said before.
That's what we need to do. it's our equivalent of the 'reverse trade in value' technique that happens at the OF the pilfer a player for £400K from somewhere and when it doesent work out they look for in excess of a million when they move on - purely because they're an OF player.
We've got to do what we've got to do and be biased towards MFC in whatever way that needs to happen.
Fuck the rest, Cmon the Well!