Chapter Four: An Old Injury Worth Eight Million

NORTHCASTLE ELIMINATES AN ESTIMATED EIGHT-MILLION-POUND LIABILITY.] Vale was not selling a broken player. He was buying immunity and hiding the receipt inside a four-hundred-thousand-pound fee. Lin did not expose him. He pushed the price down to two hundred thousand and accepted the sell-on clause, asking only that Northcastle's medical director sign a warranty stating that all prior treatment had been complete and appropriate. Vale laughed on the phone. “You really think changing his shoes can repair cartilage?” “I trust your diagnosis,” Lin said. “That's why I need you to warrant it.” That afternoon, Northcastle's medical director refused to sign.