mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
I suppose it depends how they view him as a player though. Just because we paid £27m for him doesn't mean he's worth it to someone else. I said back in January:
'My hope would be that we wouldn't entertain a bid for Kean because we think he can come good, but if we let it be known he could go, any club willing to offer more than half what we paid would have to have Steve Walsh in charge. The second we say he can go we're admitting that he can't make it here. We have no bargaining power in that situation and would likely accept a loan with a £18m or something option. We've seen it happen before, it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.'
This is the reality of transfer fees, everybody from Klaassen to Walcott is theoretically 'worth' more than we sold them for, but convincing somebody to pay the fees we'd want in an ideal world is a different matter.
I totally agree with the point regarding the disparity between values but here it's being reported that the option to buy is £18m.
I'd be surprised if a 20 year old Italy international has a price tag of 9m less than what we paid given if he goes to PSG and doesn't get in ahead of Icardi, Mbappe and Neymar, he's still probably worth more than 18m.
It doesn't add up to me but I'm open to being wrong on it of course.
I think it's likely PSG would want to know if we are open to a sale if he does well and i'd imagine the answer from us was yes. But I maintain I don't think it will be 18m.








