A loyalty payment of €3 million is reportedly delaying the transfer of Noussair Mazraoui from Bayern Munich to West Ham United.
The Hammers and Bayern have reached an agreement on the transfer fee, and personal terms have been agreed with the versatile right-back. However, West Ham now find themselves in precisely the same situation as last season when Harry Maguire refused to move to the London Stadium until Manchester United had paid his £5 million loyalty bonus in full.
Mazraoui agreed to the terms of his current deal upon joining the Bavarian club from Ajax and feels he deserves his loyalty payment since he has not asked for a move away. It is understood that Bayern Munich were keen to offload the Moroccan to make way for other signings, rather than the player himself asking to be put on the transfer list.
The situation has prompted a separate round of negotiations, with the three parties hopefully coming to a compromise. The fear remains that the delay could allow Manchester United to reignite their interest in Mazraoui and potentially crash the transfer if they are willing to compensate the German club for the loyalty payment.
Why don’t we start a go fund me page!!!???
Just a thought
So it was agents fees that we refused to pay. Not a loyalty bonus issue.
Apparently the agent wanted 10 million so we pulled out
Jesus Christ, not only is he an antisemitic, injury-prone waste of space not good enough for Bayern, he’s also a bloody mercenary who has been at the club 2 minutes and wants a loyalty bonus!!
Haven’t we learned from Aguerd how these players are more interested in money and themselves than doing their best for a club?
I have watched him play in every match he wasn’t injured, and no doubt he’s talented, but a tap and he’s down and has to go off, he’s never fitted in with the other players off the pitch and has too much to say for himself, this is why Bayern want him far away from the dressing room and the injury suite. He is not suitable for the EPL.
Same old West Ham. Will never change as long as the dwarf and his dame are at the helm. And to think, so many of us blamed ‘dithering David Moyes’…
The loyalty payment is nothing to do with West Ham, it’s a matter purely between the player and Bayern.
These things are contractual legal matters not things that can be just intervened in at will as suits.
Maybe the Hammers can go 50/50 with Bayern Munich on the player’s loyalty payment just to expedite things?
perhaps we could have a whip round
We are so bad at buisness…prime example..flyn downs …soton manager was so desperate for him he said so on sky sports…we wanted kwp ..so then flyn signs just like that…with no problems or dramas at all..goes through in a couple days …then we are haggling over kwp then eventually drop out ..am I tye only one seeing this and how much clubs just mugg us of ….I just find it utterly ridiculous
The problem in all our transfer dealings is Sullivan and the board
Of course it is. Just as world peace & global terrorism are their fault too 🙄
Well West ham peace and global transfer terrorism….
So all these deals falling through is not our fault.?? ..why aren’t any other prem clubs having this problem…I see no dramas with there buisness
If we really want the player and not trying to bluff Southampton over KWP then take the hit and pay the loyalty fee ourselves otherwise like you say Man Utd could step in just to stir the pot a bit….like it or not We need to get this or another transfer done otherwise we are going round and round in circles.
Thats a mad thing to do , what happens when the situation happens with another player , do we pay it every time
Course it is …there was bound to be something