{"id":34206,"date":"2025-04-20T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34206\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:12:55","slug":"hidden-ethan-ampadu-clause-set-to-be-triggered-at-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34206\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Ethan Ampadu\u00a0clause set to be triggered at Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A clause in Ethan Ampadu\u2019s contract has been revealed by the CEO of Exeter City and it could soon be triggered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> are on the cusp of Premier League <\/a>promotion and could have it secured by Monday.<\/p>\n

Victories against Middlesbrough and Preston<\/a> saw Daniel Farke\u2019s<\/a> side move back to the top of the Championship table<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chris Wilder\u2019s Sheffield United completely collapsed<\/a> as they lost to bottom side Plymouth Argyle for their third defeat in a row.<\/p>\n

That puts a five-point gap between the Yorkshire rivals and Leeds can secure promotion on Easter Weekend<\/a> if they better the Blades\u2019 point tally over the two fixtures.<\/a><\/p>\n

Should they return to the Premier League, then Exeter City will receive another payment for Leeds captain Ethan Ampadu<\/a>, their CEO has revealed.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by George Wood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The CEO of Exeter City, Joe Gorman, says that his club will be owed an additional payment for Ampadu should Leeds go up, despite him leaving in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on Business of Sport, Gorman said: \u201cThe last 11 years we\u2019ve invested \u00a35m pounds into our academy but that\u2019s generated us \u00a320m in player sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bit that I love is that I think it\u2019s 46% of it is up-front fees. So we\u2019ll sell a player, use Jay Stansfield as an example. <\/p>\n

\u201cSold him as 15 for six figures, he played 10 times for Fulham before he got sold and we got another six figure in and then obviously Birmingham buy him and we\u2019ve got a decent 20% sell-on on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re quite good at is putting contingents in, so if you play 10 games, we\u2019ll get 50 grand. You play an international appearance, we get X. We would normally take a lower fee for more contingents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember one of the first conversations I had with Arran Pugh, our academy director, how do you develop players for the first team? He\u2019s like, \u2018we don\u2019t, we develop Premier League players.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cKind of clicks in your mind, I get it now. The Exeter City first team is just a step on their journey, you can name them. <\/p>\n

\u201cOllie Watkins, Ethan Ampadu, if Leeds get promoted this season, we get an amount of money. The only time it ends if he were to leave on a free transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n

How much Leeds United paid for Ethan Ampadu<\/p>\n

Leeds paid \u00a37m plus add-ons to secure the services of Ampadu in 2023 but they didn\u2019t sign him from Exeter, but from Chelsea.<\/p>\n

Ampadu began his career at Exeter \u2013 making his senior debut when he was just 15 \u2013 and his talent was spotted by Chelsea, who signed him on a free transfer when his contract expired in 2017.<\/p>\n

However, as he was younger than 24 at the time of the move, Exter were still owed a compensational fee.<\/p>\n

Negotiations didn\u2019t go well between the clubs and a tribunal was required, with the Professional Football Compensation Committee finally making their decision in April 2018.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Exeter<\/a> said they were \u2018disappointed by the verdict\u2019 as they were paid a total package of up to \u00a32.5m, made up of a \u00a31.3m guaranteed transfer fee, a further \u00a31.25m in appearance-related extras and a 20% sell-on clause.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not completely clear how Exeter will still earn money from Ampadu eight years on from his departure and subsequent move to Elland Road<\/a> or if Leeds will be the ones who have to pay.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clause in Ethan Ampadu\u2019s contract has been revealed by the CEO of Exeter City and it could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,12411,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-34206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-ethan-ampadu","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114367405139739182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}