Lingard’s financial hopes emerge
CandH Exclusive by Hughie Southon
Jesse Lingard wants up to £148,500 a week – which includes a signing on fee – to join West Ham this summer!
As we have reported previously the Hammers have made an offer to the 29 year old England international but the player has made it clear he wants an alleged minimum £100,000 to 110,000 a week plus a yearly £2 million annual signing on fee (which works out £38,500 per week if paid in instalments).
That takes the basic wage – before appearance clauses and the like – between £140,000 and £150,000 per week including bonuses which would take him above Declan Rice and others to become the highest earner at the club as it stands.
That is bound to cause dressing room discontent although Moyes is desperate for a Lingard return having become very unhappy with Said Benrahma over the last season.
He is ready to sell the former Brentford midfielder who is believed to be on a wage of £50k a week but given his performance level there would be few takers and the Hammers would again suffer a loss following his £30 million arrival.
It would also ask questions of the £27 million spent on Nikola Vlasic who Moyes brought in when Lingard returned to Old Trafford at the end of his loan spell with us.
A Hammers source simply told us: “Lingard has blown hot and cold for a year, we are no further forward.”