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Somehow I had missed that we paid an estimated €9 million for Yuning Zhang.

So we have paid €9 million (our sixth biggest signing fee) for a player who Transfer Markt rate at £595K. We sign him on a three year deal, we then loan him out for two of those three years.  I understand that he cannot get a work permit to play in the UK and is seen as a player for the future, but how is he a player for the future, for us anyway? If he blossoms into an amazing player he only has to wait a year and he can leave on a free. If he does not come good, we have spent €9 millionon a player currently not even rated at 600k. Anyone make any sense of that for me

The South China Post have had a good go mind:

http://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article...-west-brom

I think the transfer was undisclosed, so that €9 million could be speculation? I suspect we would announce if we'd paid that much - as fans are assuming he was a nominal fee (and might be right).

To be honest, he looked sh*t even on Youtube, so I doubt we'd pay that unless there's some guarantee on return from a marketing point of view. I'm sure the money men know what they are doing, but I'd be surprised if the fee was as high as the South China Post are claiming.