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It has come out that Ian Holloway will personally gain from the sale of Charlie Adam to Liverpool.

The Blackpool manager will be paid a cut of any transfer fee received but he insists that's not why he's holding out for a much higher amount than what Liverpool have offered.

Holloway said: "I do get rewarded with anybody I coach and make a profit on. My chairman looked at my record of producing players and helping players and selling them on and he wanted that at Blackpool.

"That's not what I'm [resisting offers for Adam] for. I'm on a far bigger bonus to keep us in the Premier League and Charlie Adam can help me do that.

"If you're saying I'm doing this because I'm getting 20-30 per cent of the Adam money I'll not be very happy - it's miles away, absolute nonsense.

"I bought a frustrated kid from Rangers, we bought him very wisely, and in 18 months we've gone from 16th in the Championship to 12th in the Premier League with his help."

I wouldn't think he needed the money relatively speaking and there must be nothing more frustrating for a coach than to see a team and the years of work put wrecked by having to keep selling.

No doubt people will try and make something of it as it sells advertising space!

Well I've still got plenty of admiration for the guy, regardless what some in here think about him.

Obviously he wants him to stay and help blackpool survive. Can't blame him really.

Technically I don’t think this should be a problem with the manager getting a cut if he developed the player.
But on an ethical side it does open another can, where if a manager is a little unscrupulous he could deliberate try to a manage a player out of the club to earn more money for himself.
And does it not also seem a little similar to where agents "own" part of the player or his contract which is common in South America?

I would imagine his bonus for keeping Blackpool up far out strips that of player sales. B'Pool were the poorest payers in the championship so if add ons are used then so be it. Adam is on 12k a week apparantly so his motivation is as much about money as it is improvement.

Spot on with your wages comment Emp.

You can see why he wants to keep hold of him. Its taken Hollway all his managerial career to get where he is and like us all he'd love it to last more than a season.

Its a shame we cant find them a replacemnt.

He'll never quit. He's full of [oops]!

Fined 25k by that bunch of thieving gin swiggin' bass turds?

I hope he tells them to F***RIGHT OFF!

I'm sure he'll have plenty to say about it and rightly so. He'll never quit over it though.

What I don't understand is that he hasn't broke any rules so why punish them? If you can't use your squad as you see fit then what the hell can you do?