By all reports, Manchester City are on the verge of signing Real Valladolid star Juma Bah. Amid the local public's deep frustration with owner Ronaldo Nazario, the deal to bring Bah to England will only add to their anger, with La Pucela set to miss out on what could have been their record sale.
A number of sides are reportedly eyeing the Sierra Leone centre-back, while Newcastle United unveiled the other big name with Manchester City. According to Fabrizio Romano and others, a deal will be formalized to bring Bah to England this week, with a move to RC Lens until the end of the season.
Apart from losing Bah to their hopes of survival, a crucial mistake by the club appears to have cost them money. According to Diario de Valladolid hoped Los Pucelanos to improve on their record sale of €12 million following Mohamed Salisu's move to Southampton, and had offers on the table for around that amount from Inter and Fenerbahce.
Closing these deals would be a good thing for Valladolid, who paid 40,000 euros for his loan from AIK Freetong, and another 125,000 euros for his permanent transfer. However, Bah still has a youth contract, rather than a B-team contract or a senior contract. That makes him one of the lowest-paid players in the first division, with an income of just €2.5,000 per week.
That is one of the reasons Valladolid have been unable to sign him to a better deal, with agent Patrick Mork telling the club that City will accept a sanction from UEFA in terms of compensation. Due to the duration of his contract and the fact that it is a youth contract, the compensation will only amount to approximately six million euros.
If he had been on contract with the B team, that penalty would have been €15 million, and if Bah had been a senior player, it would have cost City €30 million to break Bah's contract with La Pucela. Their decision to sign him to a junior deal when he took over might have benefited them financially in the short term, but it looks like it would have cost them somewhere between the €6 million difference in transfer fee or €24 million difference in the UEFA sanction will cost. have gone before.
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