Nathan Opoku joins Newport County on loan - Official

[ClaphamFox]

10 minutes ago, beepee1984 said:

Based on what? And who is signing him?

 

Our development players (i believe) are often on higher salaries than League 2 players, so Opoku will surely sit out his final year of his contract... if not at Leicester then on loan with Leicester supplimenting his wages for another season. Average fee for a League player is no more than £100K, so what profit are we likely to make - and that fee would be a decent player when Opoku has started just one of the last 6 games at Newport 

We didn't pay anything for him so anything we get for him, even £100k, would be pure profit.

 

The club's ambition next season will be to get back to the PL. Many will find that incredulous given how this season has gone, but that will be the aim. Opoku will not be in the squad. 

[kenny]

1 minute ago, ClaphamFox said:

We didn't pay anything for him so anything we get for him, even £100k, would be pure profit.

 

The club's ambition next season will be to get back to the PL. Many will find that incredulous given how this season has gone, but that will be the aim. Opoku will not be in the squad. 

You sure he was free? He was signed from a Ghanain club, I bet we have paid for him.

[ClaphamFox]

7 minutes ago, kenny said:

You sure he was free? He was signed from a Ghanain club, I bet we have paid for him.

We didn't sign him from a Ghanaian club. He had just come out of the US college system and was a free agent.

[beepee1984]

12 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Are you making this up or do you have inside information?

I have no inside information - it is rumor.
But League 1 average wage is £1500-£2000 a week, Premier League development squads are usually on an average £2000 a week (and we were premier league when we signed Opoko) - Cartwright/Wanya were rumoured to be on 3K , Logan Briggs is rumoured to be on £2k a week - I honestly expect it to be less, but he won't get much more so will not have much incentive to sign for another team

He turned down the MLS draft to sign for us, so I doubt we got him on a really low wage

And I still doubt anyone will pay for him and definately not any real amount

7 minutes ago, kenny said:

You sure he was free? He was signed from a Ghanain club, I bet we have paid for him.

No he was signed from Syracuse University - no fee would have been paid - the US colleges are not even entitled to compensation we would have to pay a standard academy

[kenny]

1 minute ago, ClaphamFox said:

We didn't sign him from a Ghanaian club. He had just come out of the US college system and was a free agent.

One of the unusual ones then. Many of these types of players have a fee of some sorts attached.