Sullivan confirms Lanzini deal
ClaretandHugh announced on Saturday the deal would be sorted within and revealed week to ten days and that has now happened.
During a Daily Mail interview Sullivan replied to a question about Champions League qualification: “I know it’s worth about €12m (£9.4m). And you can hardly get a player for that! We’ve just signed Lanzini on a permanent deal for that sort of money. Juventus went all the way last season and it was worth €67m (£52m) to them. And we’re not going to go all the way, are we?”
On how the Payet came about Sullivan said: “Mark McKay, the agent, came to me and I checked his stats. Payet: best assists in France, third best in Europe.”
“We were talking to the then Marseille manager Marcelo Bielsa about coming to West Ham and we said: ‘Who is the one player you would bring?’ He said Payet.”
“Later I said to Slaven: ‘What do you think of Payet?’ And he said: ‘I’d love him — not only will he achieve great things, but he will make the other players better. They will get passes they wouldn’t normally get and score goals they wouldn’t normally score.’”
“So the negotiations went on and on, the fee went up and up, the wages went up and up. It started at £6million and wages of £40,000 a week and ended up at… well, that’s confidential… but a lot of money. He’s worth it.”