Holtby completes £4.66m transfer

I've reported it several times but still some think Holtby might stay, I can't understand why when he was effectively purchased by Hamburg after he had played 3 games for them.



Lewis Holtby has joined Hamburg, he is a Hamburg player now, not a Tottenham player on loan at Hamburg. There was an auto-buy clause in his contract. This meant that after he had played 3 games for them they had no option but to buy him as part of a legally binding agreement, his auto-buy clause.

The season ends officially on June 30th so officially he was on loan until then and then 1 July he is automatically purchased by Hamburg for or £4.66 million (US$7.4m - AUS$9.5m - €6.5m).

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