Yeah that’s what I think. But the other £90k is

£90k x 52 x 4 years = £18.7 mil.

I doubt we’ve given him that much. Maybe there’s no release clause or a relatively low one so he can move to the top 6 pretty soon.

COYP

For a start, we actually have no idea what wages the club are offering Meyer. Zaha has reportedly been offered a more favourable contract that he has yet to sign, but he's already one of the, if not the, top earners at the club so I can't see he'd have any grounds for complaint. Let's not make any judgments about Meyer's future performance before he's even got here shall we?

As for this financial difficulties nonsense, that BSer from Brighton seems to have put the bloody wind up everyone. Steve Parish may have his faults, but financial dork he ain't, so can we forget some Seagull's opinion about our impending third administration, because our three owners could buy and sell The Lizard 10 times over.

Edited by bexleydave (02 Aug 2018 9.16am)

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Or Arsenal and Liverpool were never interested and it’s papertalk. Perhaps he was being bullied? Or perhaps we are paying a fortune for him and he’s a troublemaker. Reality is we don’t know and probably won’t ever know but to me it seems an excellent signing and if a top journalist that undoubtably knows more than all of us combined reckons its around 80k a week, that’s as close the the truth we’ll ever get. Young German international at 80k a week sounds like good business to me.

Seems to me on one hand we lament SP for not splashing cash at the moment and then when he does, in this case wages rather than fee we are questioning him. It's pretty clear SP is a tough negotiator and tries to be shrewd with money so i'm inclined to beliee he has Meyer on a deal that he thinks is feasible and sustainable for the club.

If someone big comes in for him in 3 years time, we'll make more than that 35million back on him so can only be a good deal for us in the long term.

If this guy is as good as he apparently is, then this is a fantastic move. With Spurs and Chelsea sniffing around Zaha, in order to keep him at Palace, we need to be moving forward. If this is the cost of keeping Zaha at Palace then I am all for it.

Five years ago, when we signed Dwight Gayle, I remember thinking that this was a shrewd signing because when we got relegated, he would bring the Championship firepower we needed to get back up.

We now have Benteke, Zaha, Townsend, Meyer (hopefully), Sakho, Van Aanholt - Internationals with Premiership quality and all players who would have been marquee signings back in 2013.

Exciting times.