Everton have denied reports waived bonuses accounted for £4m of Marouane Fellaini’s transfer fee to Manchester United.
As the dust settled on United’s last-minute move for the Belgium midfielder, several newspapers claimed it took Fellaini’s intervention to get the deal over the line.
The reports suggested his transfer request saved Everton £4m in bonuses, allowing them to accept an offer of £23.5m from United in line with an expired buy-out clause in Fellaini’s contract.
But Everton’s director of communications Alan Myers has shot down those suggestions, insisting the £27.5m for Fellaini is coming solely from the old Trafford vaults.
Myers wrote on his Twitter page: “For those asking: No Felli did NOT pay £4m of the transfer fee! The buying club will pay £27.5m.”
The fee for Fellaini is understood to be £26.5m up front with a further £1m in add-ons, some of which Everton forked out on deadline-day to sign James McCarthy and bring in Gareth Barry and Romelu Lukaku on loan.