Old Man AndrewsNamelessNewCorkSeth Tis a mystery who he knows in the club. Very intimate knowledge of comings and goings too.
Except Was it last summer we offered Moore a new deal to stop him going to Brighton ? And was it £15 million
And why would we be talking to Liverpool about Ejaria’s wages ? What we pay him Is nothing to do with them once he is a Reading player
You can sometimes make arrangements with the selling club for them to cover some of the players wages, normally in the form of a reduction to the agreed fee.
My guess is we are trying to haggle Liverpool down sighting Coronavirus making the agreed price no longer viable for us. We would argue that no other club would pay £3.5m in the current climate either and negotiate a more affordable deal. The saving we'd make would then go to pay his wages.
Can a club really continue to pay the wages of a player after they have sold him ? That sounds very dodgy ! Imagine if you sold a player to a team you then played and were still paying half his wages...
If we are just looking to reduce the fee by £500k to cover part of his wages that’s different but in that case it’s not a discussion about his wages We wouldn’t discussed what wages he would be onwith Liverpool when we did the original deal
Minor point I guess but it just sounds unlikely. I may be wrong !