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Well, I'm not sure Atsu is so shit that his parent club wouldn't expect him to start more games in the 2nd tier than he did. Unless you're suggesting he's not even Championship standard? Which, if you are, is a nonsense.
There are quite a few assumptions going on here;
Even if there is a clause, even if Abraham isn't good enough to start enough games and even if there is some kind of financial penalty, it still won't be enough of a concern to make this a bad deal.
- There is an appearance clause
- It's c75% appearances
- He won't make those appearances
- There'll be a prohibitively expensive penalty when he doesn't make those appearances
I have to repeat. If he's good enough to start he'll start, if he's not, he won't. The rest of it is just noise. If that means that Benitez and his scouts judged him poorly prior to signing him on loan, then that's on them, but they won't risk Premier League survival by playing a lad they don't want to for fear of upsetting Chelsea.
Anyway how much do you predict the financial penalty would be? £500k? £1m?
Well of course they are assumptions, I'm not executing the contract mate. I've heard 75% banded about before and I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least 75%, some clubs may even expect the player to make an appearance in every game. They can do what they want providing it's agreed to, they may even reduce the loan fee providing they receive assurances in writing that the player will be playing on a regular basis.
Januzaj continued to play despite being poor, I'll be surprised if there wasn't an appearance clause included within his loan contract.