West Ham United will meet Manchester United asking price as Aaron Wan-Bissaka wants pay off
West Ham cannot afford to meet Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s wage demands and he wants a pay off from Manchester United to leave, according to The Sun.
The paper report via their website on 5 August that the Hammers are ready to pay the full £18million asking price for the right-back but the deal has now been left in “limbo” over personal terms.
Wan-Bissaka is reportedly open to joining the Irons but isn’t willing to sell himself short when he could receive a sizeable signing on fee to move to a new club for free next summer.
His representatives are now asking his current club to hand over a chunk of the £18m fee to facilitate the move going through.
Tim Steidten still in pursuit of West Ham signing from Old Trafford
Despite the excellent progress made by Tim Steidten in recent days to make a trio of breakthroughs in the transfer market this deal is still causing frustration.
Crysencio Summerville is in, Niclas Fullkrug and Guido Rodriguez should be sealed imminently, but the Wan-Bissaka move has been moving slowly.
It appeared the hold up was actually between the clubs rather than with the player as it was reported by Sky Sports Germany’s Florian Plettenberg on 1 August that a verbal agreement on personal terms was now in place.
For a player with less than a year left on his contract in Manchester the negotiations seemed to be working towards a compromise on the fee between the clubs, which Dharmesh Sheth reported on 3 August wasn’t far off.
It appears a fairly hefty fee for a player who Manchester United want to shift to bring in Noussair Mazraoui [Fabrizio Romano, 29 July] so it would be a surprise if the Hammers were open to paying that yet were stuck on the wages.
According to talkSPORT on 29 July the Irons wanted to pay something closer to £10m and a compromise was expected [Sheth, 31 July].
The deal isn’t done so clearly something is holding it up but the latest report is an unexpected one considering the signals that have previously come out.
In other West Ham news, a European giant think the Hammers have been used in an unsuccessful transfer pursuit to drive up the price of a failed deal.
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