Apoplectic Aberdeen unload on Rangers Connor Barron compensation fee

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Frustrated Aberdeen chiefs have called for an urgent review of both the domestic and international training compensations systems after feeling short-changed by Connor Barron’s tribunal fee.The Dons confirmed that the Scottish Professional Football League’s independent tribunal had ordered Rangers to pay £639,920 for Barron, along with an additional £250k of conditional performance-based payments, along with a 10 per cent sell-on.The Pittodrie side would have received around £550,000 in training compensation if Barron had moved outside of Scotland.

Domestic rules mean that any fee for an under 23 player must be decided by a tribunal if the two clubs are unable to agree a fee between them.Aberdeen wants the Scottish Football Association and SPFL to get together and improve the protection for clubs and to stop other teams signing their top talents for knockdown prices.The Dons statement read: ‘The SPFL has clear procedural rules on the confidentiality of determinations in hearings such as this, and whilst Aberdeen FC had every intention of observing its confidentiality obligations, we now believe that we have been left with no option but to correct the misinformation that has been circulated following the erroneous and irresponsible leaking of the tribunal decision.‘In fact, the actual outcome of the tribunal was to reward Aberdeen FC a guaranteed sum of £639,920, with an additional £250k of conditional performance-based payments as well as future economic rights by way of a sell-on allowing Aberdeen to benefit from any future transfers of Connor as he progresses further in his career.‘The guaranteed fee and the likelihood of where the final compensation will eventually land, by way of the future conditional payments,