Mario’s last game for in the World Cup yesterday was as a West Ham player as Portugal got knocked out by Uruguay.
Despite the four players kicking their last ball in May in a Claret and Blue shirt, we carried on paying them as part of their contracts.
Around £300,000 per week has been removed from the wage bill giving over £15.6m per year in wages to re-invest this summer.
Officially joining the West Ham payroll today is Ryan Fredericks, Issa Diop and Łukasz Fabiański who will use up a combined £170,000 per week working out to around £8.8m in wages. Felipe Anderson is claimed to want around £80,000 per week using up another £4.2m if they manage to get the transfer over the line with Lazio.