◉ £60m guaranteed fee;

◉ £5m add-ons;

◉ Long term deal agreed;

◉ Medical tests to be scheduled.

Havertz will sign the contract this week, documents are being prepared.

  • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sigh. I’m not happy with those numbers. Unless we decided to go full Italian and spread it out over 20 years, I think this is an overpay even disregarding the fact that Chelsea need to sell.

    • timmytbt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The market, particularly within the EPL, is insane these days. Boely and Co splashing the cash hasn’t helped either.

    • Framecode@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I hope Kai doesn’t suffer the Pepe effect where the price tag hangs over him like a dark cloud.

        • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, by 5M, but I’m more than a little irked that that logic never seems to come into play when we’re trying to sell players.

        • HARV3Y@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          True, but I think it’s still more than expected given his time at Chelsea. Hopefully we’ll get a similar proportion back when we come to sell Pepe…

          • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’ve been trying to be less of a pessimist recently, but… we won’t. We’ll be lucky to see 20M for him. His wages are just ridiculous for a) the clubs that might take a chance on him and b) his skill level.

          • hangonasecond@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I think the difference with Pepe was he very clearly couldn’t get a look in before he went out on loan. Kai has been played by all 34 managers who were at that shit show of a club the last year