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Manchester United and Lecce €10m apart on Patrick Dorgu valuation

www.nytimes.com Manchester United and Lecce €10m apart on Patrick Dorgu valuation

Manchester United and Lecce are €10million apart in negotiations over wing-back Patrick Dorgu. Talks are continuing to bridge the gap, and United’s director of negotiations Matt Hargreaves travelling to Italy can be seen as a sign of optimism around a deal. Lecce are said to want €40m for the ...

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I wonder why Antony's leaving on loan would help this transfer. I understand it from a wage perspective (getting some of his wages off our books) but how do wages relate to our transfer spending?
Since Antony seems to be on about £100k/week - it means that over a 6 month period he costs us £2.4M. A significant amount of money of course but nowhere near the 20-30M we are talking about here. Even if we consider a transfer of 20M would be amortized over 5 years - then that would be about 4M towards our books this season - right? So maybe that's how it starts to make sense...
- It helps because it's mostly not about actual money, but what's on the books. Antonys wages and transfer fee is on the books, if you loan him out for say 50k a week, that frees up 50k a week for Dorgu's wages, at least until the end of the season, then hopefully you can sell antony after a successful loan spell.

Does anyone else follow other teams' transfer news? I don't, so it feels like all our transfers are drawn out with so much drama. Meanwhile, City's going about their way signing players. Just wondering if all other transfers are like ours.
- Well if you don't follow them then you wouldn't know, also United gets clicks, one summer we were connected to like 150 players.
  If you only follow The athlethic for example, who only put out anything if it has some merit then let me check if transfer was mentioned at all
  
  First mention this Monday, it's wednesday and the negotiator is in Italy already, so I think this is progressing fairly quickly
  
  Yeah, I'm wondering if someone else here follows other teams' transfer news to compare what it's like.

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