With appearance bonus, win bonus and goal bonus there may be a chance of it being pretty high. There was probably a large signing on fee and some compensation for Schalke.

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Ahhh the Daily Mail, I guess it must be true...

Mate the difference from what we’re paying him to £170k (£90k per week) is £14 million.

Schalke get £500k. So £13.5 mil minus £5 mil say signing on fee, is £8.5 divided by 3. Do you reckon his bonuses are that much? Those are still wages taking us over FFP and the press have said the £170k is Daily Mail rubbish.

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That would make his signing on fee £14 million. Any of that not paid now is wages and breaking ffp. Do we have £14 mil to give him, in cash? Would we? All very very very doubtful.

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170/w over 3 years is 26.5m.

if he still played for Schalke under contract and we could get him for 14m and a 70k wage (26.5m package), would we? I say we would if he's anything like as good as his reputation.

my hunch there is a bonus element and the signing on fee comes at the end of the ride, not the beginning.

but I don't know and could be WRONG. It is a GUESS like everybody else's.

70k a week for 3 years is 10m. I simply don't buy it that an Everton or a WHU or even a big club wouldn't think I'll have a look at that. but it's such an apparent "bargain" that I find it unlikely.

hope so though

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Maybe the 170k is over the first year, which would work out at 80k a week with a 5 mill signing on fee and then the 2nd and 3rd year would just be 80k a week.