West Ham invest over £36m in two players

The completion of the Robert Snodgrass transfer means West Ham have invested over £36m in two players during the January transfer window.

Jose Fonte cost the Hammers a £8m fee plus a potential extra £1m in add-ons.  He signed a two and a half year contract on wages believed  to be £65,000 per week which will cost the Hammers  a further £8.4m in wages over the next two and a half seasons.

Snodgrass was signed for a £7m fee with another potential £3.2m of add-ons. He signed a three and a half year contract on wages believed to be £50,000 per week which will cost the Hammers £9.1m in wages over his contract lifetime.

Adding this up totals to a potential club investment of £36.7m over the next four years in transfer fees, add-ons and wages.
However the book’s could be balanced in a swipe of a pen on transfer deadline day if Marseille agree to pay £28m for Dimitri Payet and that would mean West Ham would off load their commitment to pay the Frenchman an additional £29m in wages over the next four and a half years.  That deal would be worth a combined £57m in transfer  fees and wage saving leaving more to invest elsewhere.

Brentford continue to insist on a transfer fee of £15m for Scott Hogan but his wages would be more modest coming from the championship. A five year deal for the 24 year old might cost in the region of £6.5m in wages over his contract to begin with.

Should the Hogan deal be pushed through it would mean the proceeds of the Payet sale and the wage saving would have already been spent on three new players.