It was widely reported that Philippe Coutinho paid somewhere between £9m and £11.5m to reduce the fee Barcelona paid Liverpool for him to £142m so he could live the dream at Camp Nou in 2018.
The Manchester Evening News reported at the time: “Fernandinho was so desperate to join City that he paid a £4m chunk of his own transfer fee … when it looked like the move might stall over the Ukrainian club’s demands, Fernandinho offered to forgo £4m he was owed by Shakhtar in order to push the move through, meaning City ended up paying £30m.” The move hasn’t worked out badly for him or City.įernandinho has not been a bad City signing, has he? Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA
James Jennett points us towards Fernandinho, who dug into his own pockets to smooth his move to Manchester City from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013. But we can find some that have been written about publicly. We should start by saying that there is always a certain element of negotiation in most transfer deals and they have become more complex over time, meaning the structure of them is often unknown. “Unusual, but does anyone know of any others who’ve done that?” “Reading the obituary of Colin Flatt in the latest issue of Backpass reminded me that, back in 1967, he paid his own transfer fee (£200) to join Romford from Wisbech,” writes Chris Grant.
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