He’s not leaving us on a free and signing for someone on £100/150k p/w. No PL club will pay him that without him even having played regularly at this or a comparable level. His first PL contract will be £40/50k p/w at the very most. If he performs well, then he will be bumped up fairly quickly
Hope you're right but you only need to do the Math...when there is zero transfer fee requested from the new buying club.
We paid £20 million for McBurnie + lets be modest here and say just £20K a week wages for 3 years = £3 million wages = a £23 million commitment
Surely you would expect a PL to beat that 23 million commitment that we values McBurnie?
Also surely N'Diaye is a better prospect that what McBurnie was at Swansea who also had never played in the PL.
Let's say with inflation and the fact that values have increased since then, a £25 million total cost to have N'Diaye seem fair.
So £25 million divide 3 years = £166K a week salary
If we committed £23 million in the McBurnie deal then surely some PL club is prepared to commit a similar amount in the N'Diaye deal.
A £25 million commitment over 3 years towards someone young who is likely to increase in value is a modest cost/ high reward gamble for most PL clubs.
If his 1st PL contract is just 50K a week, over 3 years that's £7.5 million which is less than what we committed to the Lys Mousset deal several years ago.
Surely N'Diaye is a far better prospect than Mousset?
Our fans need to make up our mind regards just how good N'Diaye is.
If he's as good as Morgan Gibbs-White then consider that Forest have committed a minimum £32.5 million in the deal.
(forget the £17 million add ons, lets just use the guaranteed minimum cost of a £25 million transfers fee + £30K a week salary for 5 years)
If Forest were willing to pay a miminum £32.5 million over 5 years
then as a salary N'Diaye should be paid £130/K a week if he's compared in a similar way to MGW.
Basically the Bosman rule and being able to leave for nothing changes everything and allows players to negotiate massive contracts.
John Lundstram was poor for us but even he left on a free to Rangers on a salary of £30K a week over 3 years = a £4.5 million commitment.
