According to RMS Sport in France, the fee for Martial is an initial 60million euros and then 20million euros in add-ons.
Yow .... that is insane money from Man Utd for someone so unproven
Update: New report from BBC of a 36 million pound deal (50 million euros). Still huge money for such a young player but not quite as crazy.
50-60 m is the same to me. How can you spent this kind of money for an completely unproven player??? Even if he turns to the second coming of Cantona the risk insane....The funny thing is that LVG had said after the Swansea game that they won`t go into panic buy mode....!
anyway i hope he pans out for MU but this is not the way to build a team .....
It was the add-ons. I thought they had knocked off the 20 million euro add-ons as well as 10 million euros off the initial price ... so I thought it was 30 million euro difference ... but nope, the add-ons are still part of the deal.
That 36 million pounds could become a 58 million pound deal (79 million euros).
I love that headline in L'Equipe. "More expensive than Zidane". French papers shocked at this.
Reports saying Tottenham were trying to buy the lad for ?15 million a few weeks ago. Obviously Monaco rejected this and felt he was much more valuable than that but the difference between the two bids is astronomical.
Edit: I thought I'd throw this in = a different way of looking at these figures:
An alternative way is to measure against the club income. Zidane ?75m / 138m RM income = 54%. Martial ?80m / 518m MU inc = 15%