Three years ago, Nathaniel Clyne joined Southampton in a move which saw the two clubs agree a compensation fee for one of Palace’s hottest prospects at the time, and that compensation package included a sell-on percentage that the Eagles would receive if the player was sold by the club from the south coast.
It is highly anticipated that the 24-year-old will join Liverpool for £10.5m today from Southampton with a deal including £2m worth of add-ons, despite the Saints originally trying to hold out for a move worth £15m for the highly rated English right-back.
The fee of which Crystal Palace will receive from this deal hasn’t been disclosed with all of the details of the compensation fee going undisclosed in 2012 but it will be a respectable fee with the Daily Mail’s Matt Woosnam claiming that the club will receive 20% of the profits which are made from Southampton on this deal.
Nathaniel Clyne made his league debut for the Eagles in October 2008 at the age of 17 against Barnsley, from which he went on to make 137 appearances in all competitions, scoring just one goal in the red and blue of Crystal Palace in 2009 against Reading in a match that Neil Warnock’s side won 4-2.
He featured at both under-19 and under-21 level for England during his time at Selhurst Park and was also the youngest ever-present player to feature for any club in the Football League during 2010-11 campaign, the season after the Eagles fell into administration. Clyne claimed the Palace Player of the Year award once during his time at the club in 2011.
