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Lazio confirm Anderson deal

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Lazio have confirmed the re-signing of Felipe Anderson on their official app.

The statement read: “Felipe Anderson and Lazio have found themselves after three seasons lived apart.

“When the roads parted, the club and the Brazilian continued towards their respective ambitions: for Lazio to chase the Champions League, after the failure of the evening of 20 May 2018, against Inter. From tomorrow his home will once again bear the colours of the sky, the sky of a city that smiles more than London and that wants to bring back the smile of Felipe Anderson and his football.”

Lazio will pay just over  £2m (3 million Euros) for the 28-year-old with a 50% sell-on fee, according to TuttoMercato and others.

Anderson must undergo a five-day quarantine and coronavirus testing regime before he can officially be unveiled. He is thought to have left Scotland to travel to Rome. Tutto Mercato claims he will take a significant pay cut to earn £35,000-a-week on a five-year deal at the Stadio Olimpico but European publications tend to quote net salaries after tax so that could equate to £70,000 per week gross pay. Another report in Italy suggested he could be earning £41,000 per week net or £82,000 per week gross.

The Brazilian who joined the Hammers in 2018 for a reported £34m in the days of Manuel Pellegrini and scored 12 goals in his three years as a Hammer.

West Ham are likely to still owe money to Lazio in their fourth and final payment which will now be offset, assuming the transfer fee was equally split across four years of his contract West Ham were probably due to pay the final £8.5m instalment this month.

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7 comments

  • Saul says:

    So can we say that in reality he has been sold for £10.5m, seeing as we won’t need to pay the £8.5m that we would have if he had stayed?

    All things considered i think that’s not a bad price. Anderson just didn’t put in the hard yards that Moyes insists upon. Under Pellegrini he didn’t need to contribute so much defensively, which is perhaps why he had such a good first season. However, in this current incarnation of the Premier League, everyone has to defend, hence why Yarmalenko is used so sparingly, because he doesn’t track back enough.

    I think Anderson, just as with Haller, is a talented player playing in the wrong league/system. Certainly not what we need going forward.

  • johnham1 says:

    Sad to see such a creative player leave the club but we all know Moyes has no affiliation to creative players and we just have to get used to it and as long as he is getting results he will be proven right. I just feel we are not a West Ham team without a few players like Anderson in the team. In any case I wish him well.

    • maschalagnia says:

      To be fair, he’s not been in the team for quite some time now, so I can’t say Im disappointed.

    • So basically an elongated loan deal cost us ( very roughly ) 30 million quid and they get him back at the end of it! Plus he’s earned in the region of 100k a week ( again very roughly ) for 3 years! Thanks pelle!
      I’ll bet Sully is well happy!

    • mooro66uk says:

      Shame he didn’t create a few more goals then. He may have still been with us. His scoring record since 18/19 season is 1 (that’s one) goal. He clearly didn’t want to make the effort for our club or Porto so don’t think he’ll be too badly missed. Rubbish attitude +bad scoring record+high wages = transfer. Interesting how you make this Moyes’s fault.

    • Cyril says:

      Absolute rubbish. I hate these kind of statements from Moyes haters like you. Moyes loves creative players but ones with a high work rate like lingard who work hard for the team. Something Anderson never had in his locker.

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