We were first to break the news QPR would claim a terrific £9 million windfall if Liverpool sold Raheem Sterling.

A £49 million fee has been agreed with Manchester City for a player, Rs were forced to sell in 2010 for just £500k although Rs and then chairman Gianni Paladini brokered a sell-on 20 per cent.

Just over a year ago GetWestLondon confirmed the arrangement as Paladini admitted he fought tooth and nail to keep Sterling at the time.

“The family wanted a move for Raheem,” Paladini said, “there was little we could do. We offered them a house, a car - but there minds were set on their boy moving to Liverpool.”

Clause: Gianni Paladini

At the time, Paladini reckoned the Reds would never sell, but never say never is football’s lingua franca, and Rs move top of the sell-on tree, with of all people, current director of football Les Ferdinand seventh on the list when Hayes, Yeading had yet to be added, were handed £600,000 after the Rs legend moved from Loftus Road to Newcastle for £6m in 1995.

The full list is as follows:

David Bentley - Blackburn to Tottenham - £15m

Beneficiary: Arsenal - £7m

Adam Lallana - Southampton to Liverpool - £23m

Beneficiary: Bournemouth - £5.75m

Gunner be a bit richer: Fabregas

Cesc Fabregas - Barcelona to Chelsea - £30m

Beneficiary: Arsenal - £5.6m

Nathaniel Clyne - Southampton to Liverpool - £12.5m

Beneficiary: Crystal Palace - £2.5m

Big move: Ashley Young

Ashley Young - Aston Villa to Manchester United - £17.5m

Beneficiary: Watford - £2.5m

James McCarthy - Wigan to Everton - £13m

Beneficiary: Hamilton Academicals - £1.95m

Powerhouse: Les Ferdinand in his QPR pomp

Les Ferdinand - QPR to Newcastle - £6m

Beneficiary: Hayes - £600,000

Gareth Bale - Tottenham to Real Madrid for £86m was the one that got away.

Southampton negotiated a 25 per cent sell-on clause when they sold to Spurs in 2007.

But Saints waived the sell-on clause for a fee of £3m in 2008 when they were up against it financially 12 months later.

They were left to wring their hands when the Wales wizard joined Real in a deal that would have seen Southampton net in the region of £20m under the original agreement.

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