Ngakia departure mystery deepens
And it now remains to be seen where the 19 year old moves to as mystery continues to shroud the reasons for his departure from the club.
That he has chosen to walk away without seeing the season out suggests that there’s a lot more to the situation than meets the eye.
And despite a report from the Daily Mail claimed he wanted £20k a week whilst another more recent one said it was £8k, we have learned that despite various offers the agents never got down to discussing figures.
Given the enormous gulf in the quoted wage estimates that actually makes sense with a seemingly lot of guesswork involved.
It’s giving nothing away at all to explain that the usual offer in the early days of an academy graduate’s first team squad emergence is 5k basic plus appearance bonuses with a basic review after every 15 games – a position that was adopted with Declan Rice and Grady Diangana.
But on this occasion we have learned that Ngakia’s agents never gave a response one way of the other.
Instead, they are claimed to have made it clear they wanted their client to leave on a free transfer at the end of June – a decision which has drawn a strong rebuke from manager David Moyes.
And a senior insider told CandH on e mail: “At no time did Jeremy’s agents give the club a figure they would find acceptable and finally told us he would be leaving.”