🔗 FYI: My information regarding the exact fee for Bradley Barcola differs slightly from what certain outlets have been briefed to publish, and if there are doubts over the figures, it is worth remembering who first mentioned the numbers around which an agreement has now been reached, and which journalists were still circulating very different, fairytale valuations only weeks before the agreement was struck. Firstly, it is worth mentioning that the fees now being circulated are not far from what I have consistently reported, however there is one important distinction in the structure of the agreement, one which was also among the reasons why negotiations took so long, with a secondary tranche of performance-related add-ons carrying an extremely low probability of ever being triggered included largely for presentational purposes on PSG’s side, as the Paris leadership, led by president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and sporting advisor Luís Campos, were determined for Barcola’s transfer to be portrayed publicly at a valuation no lower than the fee associated with Yan Diomande, a player they had previously missed out on. The actual structure of the transaction remains exactly as previously reported and I stand by it, €100m (£86m) guaranteed, €20m (£17m) in very easily achievable add-ons which are expected to be triggered even during Barcola’s first season, plus a further layer of highly unrealistic performance-related bonuses worth approximately €15m (£13m), meaning that in practical terms the transaction is expected to reach €120m (£103m), while anything beyond that depends on deliberately difficult and highly improbable conditions which, in practical terms, are not going to be met.