wellington silva | She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Arsenal are set to resign former ‘next big thing’ Wellington Silva from Brazilian side Fluminense, before selling him straight on to French side Bordeaux, in an odd transfer outlined by Tim Stillman in an interesting series of tweets.

In case you missed it last night, Arsenal activating their buyback clause on Wellington Silva to sell him straight onto Bordeaux.

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 13, 2017

Arsenal will take 55% of the transfer fee off of Bordeaux. Flu don't want to lose him (he's played v well there), but need to trim wage bill

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 13, 2017

from reading the reports, seems like we have an obligation because some kind of clause has been triggered.

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 13, 2017

It was kind of a loan deal, if Flu didn't take The buy option, we were obliged to buy him back (we kept 50% of his economic rights).

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 12, 2017

this will be pretty swift, it's all done basically. Probably the transfer equivalent of a paypal transaction.

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 13, 2017

A weird one, but he went on a free to Flu and we had a sell on clause, so I guess it's just easier to do it this way!

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 12, 2017

Kind of. We had a buyback which we were obligated to activate if Flu didn't buy him. They need to trim the wage bill and want to move him on

— Tim Stillman (@Stillmanator) July 12, 2017