Confirmed, Germans circumvent FFP rules
Just as I speculated at the time Lewis Hotlby's loan move to Hamburg had a guaranteed purchase element in it to circumvent Financial Fair Play rules, just as the Radamel Falcao to Manchester United deal has.
Lewis Holtby has officially gone on loan with an option to buy, but it's not an option at all, if certain criteria are met then Hamburg are obliged to buy the player. Those conditions have already been met which shows you just how weak they were in the first place.
He arrived at Tottenham for £1.5 million and won the fans over with passion and effort, however apart from effort he had shown little else. There were some encouraging flashes and his work rate fitted in with the Pochettino system but along with the work rate there has to be an end product and Holtby just gave the ball away too often without adding much offensively.
Now that may be because of the position he was playing in, currently with Hamburg under a new manager, the manager who signed him was sacked, he has been moved into the central attacking midfielder role and begun to produce notable performances again.
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Lewis Holtby will officially move to Hamburg permanently next summer but in effect it has already happened say German newspaper Bild. The fee £5.12 million ($8.26m - €6.5m) represents a tidy little profit.
The German club are in the process of restructuring their playing staff and want t reduce wages significantly from the level they are playing so will not be offering contract extensions to their high earners such as Rafael van der Vaart whose contract expires next summer.
Lewis Holtby has officially gone on loan with an option to buy, but it's not an option at all, if certain criteria are met then Hamburg are obliged to buy the player. Those conditions have already been met which shows you just how weak they were in the first place.
He arrived at Tottenham for £1.5 million and won the fans over with passion and effort, however apart from effort he had shown little else. There were some encouraging flashes and his work rate fitted in with the Pochettino system but along with the work rate there has to be an end product and Holtby just gave the ball away too often without adding much offensively.
Now that may be because of the position he was playing in, currently with Hamburg under a new manager, the manager who signed him was sacked, he has been moved into the central attacking midfielder role and begun to produce notable performances again.
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Lewis Holtby will officially move to Hamburg permanently next summer but in effect it has already happened say German newspaper Bild. The fee £5.12 million ($8.26m - €6.5m) represents a tidy little profit.
The German club are in the process of restructuring their playing staff and want t reduce wages significantly from the level they are playing so will not be offering contract extensions to their high earners such as Rafael van der Vaart whose contract expires next summer.
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