These things are rarely reported, but we should be looking for 1 year of our current valuation in a fee and his wages paid. I suspect it was less last year but we have leverage this year.
Why else would you bother. The game for us has to be to get as much in a loan fee and wages as possible, then we still own the asset to sell again.
If we bought him for £22.5/£25mil rising to £27.5mil.
Lets say we got a loan fee of £5mil last season...then we get a loan fee of £10mil this coming season = £15mil.
This means that:
1: His book value to us for FFP purposes next summer is 0 so were into pure profit on the books for a sale.
2: Ignoring FFP weve basically got back £15mil so effectively weve just got to get back £7.5mil/£10mil next summer to breakeven.
So depending on the actual loan fee it could be pretty good for us next summer.
Also a £10mil loan fee this summer gives us £50mil to spend on players if theyre on 5 year deals.