Overview
- Reports say Borussia Dortmund have lodged a bid structured as about £10.4m up front plus up to £4.3m in conditional add-ons, taking the total to as much as £14.7m.
- Those figures are media reports and remain unconfirmed by any club, so the offer is currently speculative and subject to negotiation or change.
- Wolves negotiated a sell-on clause when they sold Meupiyou last summer that would let them recoup their roughly £4.2m fee and then receive 50% of any profit above that.
- Based on the reported offer, calculations in coverage estimate Wolves could take about £7.3m of the initial payment and a further £2.1m if the add-ons are triggered, and Wolves also retain a small buy-back option that is not expected to be used.
- Meupiyou’s regular first-team season at Alverca has raised his market value, which could give the Portuguese club their biggest-ever sale and show how sell-on and buy-back clauses let both smaller clubs and former owners share in future transfer gains.