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I'm Spurs and I'm trying to sign Toni Silva(who I'd let go as Liverpool boss years ago, and was now dominating at Udinese). He had a release clause of about 11.5 million. I bid that, go to offer a contract, and he won't budge from that amount. I tried offering him and his agent more in every respect, but he wouldn't budge. It's ridiculous, what player on earth thinks a big team (we're 2nd in the league) is going to in a million years agree to that. I noticed it with Pastore as well, he got a 10.5 clause put in before I signed him for Liverpool, and wouldn't budge when I did. It's not realistic.

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Only way to budge this is to offer the agent a bung.

However, consider that if he is happy at your club and doing well, he won't want to leave.

I am currently Man City and nobody bids for my players even though several players have £10m minimum releases.

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Yh it can be annoying, although I had a world class argentinian cb who was so gd I had no choice but to accept the 12.5mil release clause he/the agent insisted on. It transpired that despite interest from big teams, no team actually bidded for him and when it came to renewal, he accepted its removal.

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Try the non-negotiable option. I have just bought a Turkish regen who was doing the same wanting a minimum of 13m, managed to get him to take 23m using the option.

That's what I have been doing. I'll initially try and push it up without the non-negotiable option, but then I'll play hardball and say non negotiable. Even if I just push it up by a million or so, they refuse. It's not a case I think of negotiating, it's one of the game being faulty.

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