The loan fee is key to Adebayor move
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When I hear West Ham United have revived their interest in Emmanuel Adebayor the cynic in me tells me there is more to this than meets the eye.
Back in January Adebayor tried to force Daniel Levy's hand. He had already been told he would not be loaned out to a team in the top half of the table yet he declined all loan moves, Crystal Palace were prepared to pay 75% of his salary, that suited us but Adebayor wanted a top half team.
Despite knowing he wouldn't be allowed yo join West Ham he spoke to them and tried to force a move through with West Ham only agreeing to pay 50% of his salary. Aston Villa under Tim Sherwood have had extensive talks with Adebayor, he has been round their training facilities and when everything was all agreed he decided he didn't want to leave his London base.
Was that because West Ham had had a word and told him they would negotiate a loan deal late in the window to try and force Levy to accept a 50% salary loan deal. The best time to do that is late in the window and I did write at the very start of the window that a loan deal for Adebayor was the only way he would leave and that that would take place at the very end of the window.
It is common sense, there is no point paying a wage when you don't have to. The window opened on 1 July, which was 8 weeks ago. He is believed to be on £120,000-a-week which at 50% would be £480,000. Why pay that sort of salary when you can wait 8 weeks and then negotiate a loan when you can pile the pressure on us to accept a poor deal.
Personally I would let him go there unless they were willing to pay 75% of his fee or 50% with an additional £2-million added to his loan fee. That additional £2-million would cover 33.33 weeks wages at £60,000-a-week
Players contracts end on 30 June each year, there are 52 weeks in a year, less the 8 weeks in the final year of his contract and Adebayor has 44 weeks of his contract left, less a week to arrange a loan taking it down to 43 weeks.
At £60,000 per week the remaining 50% of his wages comes to £2.58-million.
At £90,000 per week the remaining 75% of his wages comes to £3.87-million.
I don't see West Ham paying more than 50% of his wages, they don't like us and will want to screw us for every penny they can. We will want to grab as much of the difference between the 50% and 75% figures as we can by increasing the loan fee.
If we assume the loan fee would have been £2-million, a fairly common figure for a player of his calibre (when he wants to play), then if we added £1.29-million to it that would equate to West Ham paying 75% of his wages, thus I expect we will be looking for a loan fee as close to £3-million as we can get it.
Of course if all we want to do is cover our costs then a loan fee of £2.58-million will cover our portion of his wages.
Back in January Adebayor tried to force Daniel Levy's hand. He had already been told he would not be loaned out to a team in the top half of the table yet he declined all loan moves, Crystal Palace were prepared to pay 75% of his salary, that suited us but Adebayor wanted a top half team.
Despite knowing he wouldn't be allowed yo join West Ham he spoke to them and tried to force a move through with West Ham only agreeing to pay 50% of his salary. Aston Villa under Tim Sherwood have had extensive talks with Adebayor, he has been round their training facilities and when everything was all agreed he decided he didn't want to leave his London base.
Was that because West Ham had had a word and told him they would negotiate a loan deal late in the window to try and force Levy to accept a 50% salary loan deal. The best time to do that is late in the window and I did write at the very start of the window that a loan deal for Adebayor was the only way he would leave and that that would take place at the very end of the window.
It is common sense, there is no point paying a wage when you don't have to. The window opened on 1 July, which was 8 weeks ago. He is believed to be on £120,000-a-week which at 50% would be £480,000. Why pay that sort of salary when you can wait 8 weeks and then negotiate a loan when you can pile the pressure on us to accept a poor deal.
Personally I would let him go there unless they were willing to pay 75% of his fee or 50% with an additional £2-million added to his loan fee. That additional £2-million would cover 33.33 weeks wages at £60,000-a-week
Players contracts end on 30 June each year, there are 52 weeks in a year, less the 8 weeks in the final year of his contract and Adebayor has 44 weeks of his contract left, less a week to arrange a loan taking it down to 43 weeks.
At £60,000 per week the remaining 50% of his wages comes to £2.58-million.
At £90,000 per week the remaining 75% of his wages comes to £3.87-million.
I don't see West Ham paying more than 50% of his wages, they don't like us and will want to screw us for every penny they can. We will want to grab as much of the difference between the 50% and 75% figures as we can by increasing the loan fee.
If we assume the loan fee would have been £2-million, a fairly common figure for a player of his calibre (when he wants to play), then if we added £1.29-million to it that would equate to West Ham paying 75% of his wages, thus I expect we will be looking for a loan fee as close to £3-million as we can get it.
Of course if all we want to do is cover our costs then a loan fee of £2.58-million will cover our portion of his wages.
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