Back in January 2012 Matt Lawton published a story in the Daily Mail saying Ravel Morrison, then age 18 demanded £30,000 per week despite making only 3 first team appearances at the time. The story went on to say Sir Fergie described his demands as ‘unrealistic’ and were said to have counter offered at £12,000 a week.
In response Morrison tweeted “I have never 1s [sic] turned down a contract off united”
A story in the Guardian by Jamie Jackson on the January transfer deadline day of 2012 suggested the Deal to bring Ravel Morrison to West Ham was an initial feel £650,000 with up to £2m of add-ons. It was also claimed there is no buy-back option for Manchester United and claimed agents involved in the transfer were demanding a fee of around £1m.
The story said his wages would start in the region of £10,000 to £15,000 a week, potentially rising to £65,000 depending on a certain number of Premier League starts.
Last week in the Sun it was suggested Ravel Morrison had a £19 million buy out clause into his contract. They allege he insisted on the buy out clause himself when he signed his West Ham contract.
This was followed up by Darren Lewis in the Mirror suggesting West ham will offer Ravel Morrison a new deal in January and attempt to remove the £19 million buy out clause.
Yesterday fresh claims were made by David Kent in the Daily Mail. The story believes there is a complicated release clause in Morrison’s current contract which amounts to more than £20 million. The big new claim is that West ham have to make a £25,000 payment every time Ravel Morrison makes a first team appearance for us. At eight appearances so far that adds up to £200,000 with many more to come in the very near future.There is speculation that the deal was structured this way rather than pay Manchester United’s original asking price of £3m.
David Gold seems to have rubbished the existence of a buy out clause for Morrison on twitter. When asked ‘Does Ravel Morrision have a buy out clause like Diame?’ Gold answered No he doesn’t dg’
However David Gold seems to have confirmed the existence of the £25K per game fee on twitter. When someone commented it was until we reach £1m David replied. “i think your’e right. I will check tomorrow. dg”
This is what Sam Allardyce told the press recently: “I don’t know if there is a buy-back clause and what that figure might be if it even exists, but my real big worry is that Manchester United will come back to buy him. Look at what happened when Chris Smalling played a handful of games for Fulham – United jumped in with £10 million. Then there was Phil Jones when I was at Blackburn – that’s what you are up against.”
An article in Goal.com today claimed a source close to club said talks on a new contract would not be held until the end of the season, The source was quoted as saying:
“We won’t be holding talks on a new contract until near or the end of this season, Were we to go to him now, it’s unlikely he would want to talk. Like us, he wants to see where he is at the end of the season. We will then know how many goals he’s scored, where he stands as a player, the impact he’s had on things, the number of assists he’s provided and everything else.At that point we can put exactly the right contract before him which includes the necessary provisions for his future potential.”
With his recent wonder goal against Spurs and his England Under 21 call up I am sure he is going to fill a lot of column inches in the papers for the foreseeable future.