4. £7.5 Million Is A Snip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXoR9mt9ngk Demba Ba signed for an "undisclosed fee" however it is common knowledge that the player had a £7.5 million buy-out-clause in his contract so it is safe to assume he went for that much at least. Prior to the forwards' move to Chelsea, reports surfaced that the players' agents demanded between £3 million and £5 million to conduct any potential transfer, which if true would have pushed Ba's transfer fee closer toward the £12.5 million mark,* but even that is a snip for a player with such a prodigious goalscoring record. When you consider that another of Chelsea's targets, Neymar, would probably cost Roman Abramovic £40 million,** then by contrast you have yourself a bargain. Sure, Ba isn't going to be scoring 43 times in 47 appearances in a calendar year like the Santos player did in 2012, but Ba
is the third highest scorer in the Premier League, and given that statistic, he could have been worth an awful lot more. Source(s): *
The Mirror, **
The Independent