Borja Sainz has officially completed his move to FC Porto for £14.25m plus 20% sell on clause (Porto able to buy 10% of that clause back for £1m within 12months). Outstanding from Knapper again, great fee for a player with 1 year left on his deal, a lot of that figure is expected to be paid up front. Then to add a sell on clause to hopefully squeeze another few million out of the deal is an added bonus. Porto have put a €100million release clause in his contract, if they sell him for even half that we could gain almost €5m more from the deal. It’s a strange feeling with Sainz leaving, he was good in the second half of his first season and great for the first half of this season, was our top scorer and played a vital role in our early season form, but I can’t say that im too sad that he’s leaving. If he was on it he could win a game single handedly almost, but if his head wasn’t right it felt he could do the opposite. I grew increasingly frustrated with his defensive output and he had a tendency to try to do everything himself rather than play the simple pass, which was fine when he was sticking them top bins every week, but when he wasn’t he looked very selfish. A good player but not necessarily a good team player in my opinion, he goes with my best wishes
