21 Jul 2026 16:58:21
Summerville to Saudi for €80m!
Wet Spam are selling damn well this summer.
Wonder if they fancy Piroe for £30m ??.
1.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 17:31:55
Crazy money for Cree, that!
2.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 17:34:36
Quite right, Dave. About £140m from two sales, even after they've paid the sell-on clause for Fernandez. And they've kept the rest of the squad up to now.
I think Piroe's going to see out his contract and go as a free agent at the end of the season.
He'll only be 27/28 and a good signing for the Championship or Eredivisie. A loan might end up as our only option.
Quite a contrast in outcomes between West Ham's outgoings and ours.
3.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 18:35:23
Have we a sell on clause? Probably not. ?
4.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 18:43:47
Apparently no sell-on clause, Corkey. Even 10% of £68 million would have been handy.
5.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 18:44:16
Bad business with Summerfield, no sell-on. We just can't keep making this sort of mistake time after time. We need someone who knows what they are doing when signing players, dot the i's and cross the t's, make it watertight. 68 million. ??♂️
6.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 19:01:34
Don't know who it was on here, but last time we got dumped, and I was moaning about selling fees on players, the poster told me off for asking that silly question.
Saying relegated teams have zero bargaining power over the exodus of their "stars".
West Ham proving that was a load of s****, as they are cleaning up, and well done for getting top coin.
Can't remember who told me this.
7.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 19:38:23
Agreed, Dunelm. Piroe defo wants to go on a free. It's up to the club to tell him and his agent to find himself a new club.
8.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 19:57:36
Yes, we had no sell on clause in our deal to sell Summerville to Wet Sham, but now they've sold him. To compare the two deals properly, you also need to know if there's a sell on clause in their deal or not.
9.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 20:04:53
We haven't been good for a few years in several areas. Buying players with relegation clauses, loaning out with no obligation to buy, transferring with no sell on clause, and panicking and handing out high value contracts for no good reason (eg.
JH and DH) .
It might cost a substantial amount to get someone in who knows what they're doing, but in the long term it will save money - a lot.
10.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 20:08:50
Sorry Jr, I think it's a bit irrelevant. West Ham have made their wedge, a big one, and I think they are the cat who got the cream - all of it.
11.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 20:37:15
Yep, I said during the January window, Piroe wants to see his contract out.
Some seem to think he is destined for Champo this summer.. Not a chance that he would do so.
12.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 21:33:53
He's never going to a champo side imo. Europe's top leagues are more likely, but not one of the elite ones.
13.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 22:04:24
I don't think we could put a sell on clause in due to Cree's release fee being activated.
14.) 21 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 23:11:57
That's not the point I'm making, Dun. He left us for £24M on the back of a good season in the Champo, and now Wet Sham have sold him for £60M on the back of a good season in the PL and World Cup call-up, that's just good business, just like we did buying Raphina for £17M and selling him for £54M.
My point is that some here have been criticising LU for not having a sell on clause in the deal, but quite probably Spam find themselves in the same position and had to sell to the Saudis also with no sell on clause.
15.) 22 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 08:27:53
It will say more about Cree if he goes there than Spam's ability to squeeze out the wedge.
Supposedly, they were waiting on a revised offer from Roma above their 39m opener, when Hilal came in with that crazy 60m opener.
No negotiation involved; they just accepted their first offer. West Ham didn't have to do anything to drive up their profit on him; they just answered the phone. Perhaps our receptionist is more to blame for the prices we get?
16.) 22 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 10:20:38
Cycencio, the money is all I care about. Summerville has made it very clear about his footballing ambitions and career and what he wants from it.
Good luck to him if that's what he wants, and if Hilal pay for a player that's double his value, fair enough. If West Ham can receive that amount of cash, then fine, whether the Saudis are too stupid or too rich enough to pay it.
This has got nothing to do with Leeds United and the way the club is managed.
He was a player who made it crystal clear he did not want to play for Leeds.
There's nothing else to say.
17.) 22 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 11:07:17
It would have been nice to have even a 10% sell on clause though.