Crystal Palace will not have to pay a €3m loan fee for striker Jean-Philippe Mateta in it’s entirety next summer.
That’s according to Kicker, who cover the striker’s move today and explain Palace are paying any fees involved in the deal in instalments.
Mateta joined Palace on loan at the end of the January transfer window as Roy Hodgson looked to add extra firepower to a forward line sorely lacking in it.
That loan deal doesn’t end until June 2022, meaning the French striker is set to spend next season on loan at Selhurst Park before returning to Germany.
Crystal Palace have an option to make the move permanent next summer, although reports in Germany have indicated that is more of an obligation than an option.
They have also paid €3.5m to secure the loan in the first place, but Kicker report this is being paid in instalments rather than ‘one fell swoop’.
The fee-only has to be paid by ‘the summer of 2022’, so presumably, the Eagles have set up some sort of payment plan with Mainz for the striker.
This is all welcomed by the Germans, with the deal having helped ensure that their lost income caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has not increased from earlier predictions.
It now remains to be seen if Mateta can be a success at Crystal Palace over the next year, although if he isn’t, they can at least be pleased with the fact they’ve not paid for him in one go.
