Joel Matip is free, but he comes at a price for Liverpool
Does Joel Matip free tag come with a high price tag? Looking at the break down of how the transfer is structured I would say Liverpool mean business with this one.
Joel Matip is another new addition to the team that exemplifies the “Klopp Effect”. We have brought in one of the Bundeliga’s best center backs. For this season, he featured in the team of the season for the Bundesliga.
Coming in at the age of of 24, he’s made 262 appearances for Schalke, chipping in with 24 goals in total. Good with his feet, good in the air and has this self-assured nature on the ball for a center back. He was a well worked free transfer.
Nevertheless, he might have been a free transfer but we all know, nothings comes for free in life now a days.
According to how things work in the transfer world, we will have to pay a hefty sign on fee for his services. All this talent comes at a price and that price is set to make Joel Matip one of the highest paid players at Liverpool.
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He is set to make a £100k per week, according to various reports, nearing the region of something like £5.4 million a year. This is what we’ve been saying for years, pay the right price, have the right manager in place, the rest is history…
A transfer well worth all of the money for Liverpool, it shows that Liverpool means business. It may be free in the sense of transfers handed to Schalke, but Matip receives a signing-on bonus as well as his wages. The club is ready to back Klopp for the players he wants, that’s for sure.
As such, Liverpool will continue to be linked with a ton of players from the Bundesliga until the summer transfer window closes.