Enzo Barrenechea - officially gone gone to Benfica for €12M

[manic-road]

Possibly frees up a squad place for someone better as well.

[Tuscans]

🚨🦅 Enzo Barrenechea to Benfica, here we go! Deal in place for €15m, loan with obligation to buy clause under certain conditions from Aston Villa.

Medical tests booked and contract until June 2030 for the midfielder.

[cdbearsfan]

Loan? So we still haven't actually got any money this transfer window except KKH.

[Sexual Ealing]

We're clearly up against it on the wages.

[PaulWinch again]

How high must his wages be? If we’re planning on doing any business we must be selling a pretty key player

[eye digress]

Isn't this just effectively another tranche of the fee for selling Dougie?

That's how I see it. As part of the Luiz deal, we acquired some "options", one of which is maturing. The other "option" looks like its valuation may be going backwards, however. Still, we will probably crystallise over €70 million from the Luiz deal - got to think that's decent business, especially given the season he's had.

[AGRIPPA]

Isn't this just effectively another tranche of the fee for selling Dougie?

That's how I see it. As part of the Luiz deal, we acquired some "options", one of which is maturing. The other "option" looks like its valuation may be going backwards, however. Still, we will probably crystallise over €70 million from the Luiz deal - got to think that's decent business, especially given the season he's had.

I’m not sure I get those figures …. Widely reported that we got a bout £20m cash plus the two
Players valued at about £19m with illing jr being the more costly….we got stitched up on that deal

[eye digress]

You're right, it wasn't accurate, in that it didn't factor in the fees disbursed on Enzo and IJ.

We got €51m for Luiz. We paid €8m for Enzo, and €14m for IJ.

So that would put the "overall" fee at around €58m (51m plus the Enzo "profit") if IJ holds his value.

Still, not too shabby.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Slightly different deal being reported here:

1. Barrenechea will be loaned with an option to buy, which may become mandatory if certain objectives are met.

2. Aston Villa will be entitled to a 30% capital gain on a future transfer up to certain amounts.

[OCD]

Basically the same thing with different wording...'obligation to buy if certain circumstances are met' i.e. plays x number of games. With a sell-on clause.

[Bosco81]

You're right, it wasn't accurate, in that it didn't factor in the fees disbursed on Enzo and IJ.

We got €51m for Luiz. We paid €8m for Enzo, and €14m for IJ.

So that would put the "overall" fee at around €58m (51m plus the Enzo "profit") if IJ holds his value.

Still, not too shabby.

Trying to fatten up Enzo and Iling-Junior seems a good plan, I-J is still only young so has still got a chance to improve, he might end up as our reserve left back if we get an offer for Digne.

The only pure PSR move was the Dobbin for Iroegbunam one, where Dobbin was never worth £10M, closer to £2M, so that will be a loss, when/if we sell him, or just try and rack up some loan fees for him.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Basically the same thing with different wording...'obligation to buy if certain circumstances are met' i.e. plays x number of games. With a sell-on clause.

It was the limit on the sell-on clause that jumped out at me. I imagine/hope we still get 30% up to the limit and the limit is ridiculously high.

[Tuscans]

Confirmed.

Enzo Barrenechea has joined Benfica. Obligation to buy worth €15m at end of season with #AVFC retaining a 30% sell-on.

[cdbearsfan]

End of sodding season? Give me money NOW.

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t really gets how that helps us, other than a modest impact on wages.