The transfer of Mateo Musacchio looks doomed. An update from Simon Johnson in the Evening Standard this morning confirms Tweets from sports journalist Petter Veland.
Whilst 99% of football club presidents are reticent about transfers, before they are announced, the suggestion that Musacchio’s former club River Plate have a 35% sell-on clause is plausible.
What is equally plausible, is that players and agents are keen to agree personal terms; whilst being blissfully disinterested in what the bottom line will be between the clubs involved.
They don’t have to pay it. They just wait for their cut to hit their bank account.
Well, if anyone believes that Levy & Co. are going to casually agree to pay £39.6million for a player thought to have been valued at around the £17million mark, they’ve gone stark raving mad.
This deal’s life hinges upon whether Villa Real have the right to demand what their sell on windfall will be, or simply have to take 35% of whatever the player is sold for.
