According to Turkish media, West Ham have offered Pedro Obiang in a swap deal to sign Besiktas midfielder Gary Medel.
Turkish website Posta has made bold claims that Besiktas’ are only looking to accept offers in excess of €5m for Medel and that West Ham has offered Obiang to the Super Lig club in exchange for Medel. The report claims Besiktas have reportedly asked for time to think about the offer.
These Turkish media claims are utterly ridiculous as Obiang has made it clear he only wants to move to Italy where he has family and would have no interest what so ever in a move to Turkey. While they might be some interest in Medel, Obiang is undergoing a medical in Italy today and is expected to complete an €8m transfer to Serie A club Sassuolo by the end of the week.
Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio has recently published a photo of Pedro arriving in Italy this morning which seems to underline the foolishness of the report from Turkey.
Why is it that we are always selling players for less than they are actually worth? Obiang having played over 100 games in serie A is a solid performer with interest from Sassulo , Bologna, Celta Vigo and a couple other clubs and we cant even get what he is worth which should be around 10m … its something that needs to be looked at . When we got Perez from Arsenal last summer we looked at it as a bargain for 4m yet 1 season later we let him go for about 2m … all them clubs we deal with are squeezing every last penny out of the transfers … ok rant over lol
Maybe we’re overvaluing our players. We can’t go on about Obiang being pretty useless or at best bang average and then expect much money for him. There’s also the problem of selling to teams in leagues that don’t have the same money the Premership does. If we’d sold Kouyate abroad last season rather than to Palace, we may only have got 6-7m rather than 10m.