Which would make you wonder. If he leaves after one summer, then the conditions for those add-ons may not be met. 'X number of appearances' is a common one if Championship Manager 00/01 is anything to go by.Think £36.5m is the initial fee, not including add-ons which was around £14m. Hence, the total fee of £51m.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ansfer-record-to-sign-lyon-midfielder-paqueta
https://www.skysports.com/football/...or-west-ham-from-lyon-in-club-record-51m-deal
His goal contributions last year are identical to paquetas and he played in a team that finishes in the champions league places- also has never hit the numbers paqueta did at Lyon when they were both there- paqueta definitely the better player and value for moneyGuimares would be 120 mil. Newcastle are in the champions league. Markets fucked it’s not going to decrease. Players will have to run down their contract
Yeah i get that the market is screwed, but to splash this much money on player who i'd be very suprised was even on our radar until the last few days feels almost a panic buy of the back of sunday.Guimares would be 120 mil. Newcastle are in the champions league. Markets fucked it’s not going to decrease. Players will have to run down their contract
Yeah i get that the market is screwed, but to splash this much money on player who i'd be very suprised was even on our radar until the last few days feels almost a panic buy of the back of sunday.
Grealish was at least the star of that Villa team and had 2 really good seasons. Plus he’s English. In both those seasons, he scored twice as much and created 3x as many chances.We spend £100m on Grealish who gets similar numbers…
He went and won the treble.
Im not disputing that hes a good player far from it, i just think world class is a term that gets chucked about easily and like i said looking good in a bad team for both west ham or england doesnt make him world classSome will never see it and perhaps I wouldn't if I only caught the odd game on TV.
However at West Ham, He was the star of the show most of the season, His work rate, decision making, tackling, box to box carrying and a lot of flair/skill which doesn't always get appreciated.
No chance we would have got Top 6, Top 7 and win European Trophy without his presence these last few years.
Yeah it was devil’s advocate to an earlier post, we definitely needed him. Paquetá however, no way.No striker: the PL
Haaland: the treble
Feels like we did need him
I’ll bet they don’t get 85 millionYeah i get that the market is screwed, but to splash this much money on player who i'd be very suprised was even on our radar until the last few days feels almost a panic buy of the back of sunday.
Yeah maybe, but Akanji was 15mil and no risk really, this is shit tonne of money on an impulse buy for a player we didnt even want 72 hours ago.Feels like an Akanji signing, Pep didn’t think he had enough options in cb last season so we got Akanji, probably thinks we don’t have enough in midfield and the community shield has made him realise even more.