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Maybe all this helps Espanyol in their negotiations with the club they are trying to buy their new keeper from, you never know.
Well apparently until now they wanted much more.If we are 100% about Lopez this deal would have been done some time ago. £3m is peanuts in todays market, so something is not quite right here.
Not necessarily true at all. Just because you want something and know it will work does not mean you pay more for it when you can get it for less (assuming all other economic factors are the same). And not just more, almost 200% more. That would be just bad business and DL doesn't do bad business...unless it's named Sissoko.If we are 100% about Lopez this deal would have been done some time ago. £3m is peanuts in todays market, so something is not quite right here.
Actually 1/3 as DL has offered 2M. The extra 500K was a penalty for not concluding a purchase deal before June 30.The original deal was something along the lines of £6m was it not? Delay probably whilst it was being haggled down to roughly half that.
Shit, after thinking about it some more I jsut realized that Espanyol did indeed claw back some dignity with the 500K penalty. We were only offering 2M even though we agreed 6M last year. So they knew he was only coming here and they are not financially prepared to lose him for nothing irrespective of the new ownership. So they held firm on the 6M until DL was forced to pay 500K more. So yeah, everyone walks out with their head high.This Pau saga sounds to me like both Levy and Espanyol trying to work the other side of the deal and walking out of this believing they won.
If we are 100% about Lopez this deal would have been done some time ago. £3m is peanuts in todays market, so something is not quite right here.
Where did the £6m come from.. I was to believe that it was always £3mIt may be peanuts but if you can get him for £3 million instead of £6 million you have an extra £3 million to spend elsewhere and when things are as tight as they appear to be right now then we 100% should push them down as hard a possible.
Pau Lopez’ move to Tottenham Hotspur stalls as £1.3 million bid is still far off Espanyol’s £2.2 million valuation. via [@cope_es]