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Swift Frank wrote:Hear the Club and Aberdeen FC have reached an amicable agreement re both the fee and sell on clause , ruling out the need for a Tribunal.

Gav wrote:

Swift Frank wrote:Hear the Club and Aberdeen FC have reached an amicable agreement re both the fee and sell on clause , ruling out the need for a Tribunal.

Maybe that is why we can afford to bring in the 2 new signings this week that Canning was talking about.

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Hamilton Accies say Lewis Ferguson tribunal decision could deal a blow to their club philosophy of bringing through youngsters
Aberdeen have offered only £100,000 for the midfielder while Accies value him at the £1.2million they got from Wigan for James McCarthy in 2009

Accies say their approach could be jeopardised if the tribunal let the Dons land the youngster on the cheap.
Hamilton chairman Ronnie MacDonald will point to the cases of Alfie Mawson, Greg Docherty and Charlie Telfer which he says shows they should be weighed in.
MacDonald said: “If we as a club are doing all this work to produce a Lewis Ferguson, who could be a once-in-ten-years player, the valuation of him has to be realistic otherwise I’m going to think, ‘Why am I bothering?’
“He was in our first-team at 17 and someone offers us £100,000 for him — but he’s good enough to play all four games for Aberdeen in the Europa League?
“If Aberdeen had done what Rangers did with Greg Docherty, come in the front door and worked something out, fine, rather than people not returning your calls.
“Aberdeen will argue we’re due reimbursement, I’ll argue we’re due compensation.
“Compensation is getting reimbursed for an event I hadn’t welcomed happening to me. Reimbursement is them saying ‘You spent £20k a year developing him for five years, here’s 100k’.
MacDonald is concerned too by Livingston following Falkirk in scrapping their youth system and fears young players will be missed as youth opportunities grow scarcer.
He said: “That’s a worrying trend and it’s really disappointing. It’s the cart going in front of the horse. It’s the youth policy that sustains us staying in the league.”

Accies developed Ferguson into the player he is - a goal scoring midfielder, an immediate fixture in a team competing in Europe and the top end of the SPL. His true value must be in the high hundreds of thousands, and if the tribunal's doing its job it should recognise that. Accies have offered a negotiating position, as have Aberdeen - I'd settle for the mid-point, which is £650,000.

Swift Frank wrote:MacGowan could do a lot with 250k.

Swift Frank wrote:Undisclosed
Aberdeen "happy " with outcome.
We've been shafted then,as expected.