No, that rule was sorted with the whole Tevez situation. You can't 'part own' a player, I think that just says that we'll pay 15m euros but 70% of that will go to Bologna and 30% to Penarol.
Maybe Shaw will be given his chance sooner than we thought this season then. If he is as good as people are making out, I wouldn't be surprised for him to be our starting LB by xmas. Exciting times.
In those 3 players we'd have Ramirez, Lallana, Phillips, Puncheon, Guly, Lee, J-Rod, De Ridder, Chaplow....if we bring in these two, I wouldnt be surprised to see one or 2 of these leave. (Punch, De Ridder, Chaplow most likely)
He's clearly wanting to come to us, if you read through the Ramirez thread there are loads of quotes from him. We're clearly also breaking the bank to sign him, just a matter of it being signed I think.
Just pay it ffs. If we're willing to pay it, in installments, then just pay it in the right way, this guy could be the difference between staying up and going down.
Swap Punch for Phillips. Then we have Guly, Lee, De Ridder, Lallana, Ramirez, Phillips fighting over those 3 spots and J-Rod, Lambert and Sharp over the striker position.
I'm sure he has been assessed as the right sort of character we want to have in and around the dressing room, as this seems to be important to NC and NA.