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title: "Profit Players: Newcastle United did great business selling Ayoze Perez to Leicester City"
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author: "Adam Clancy"
section: "Leicester"
published: "2020-09-13T16:00:06Z"
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# Profit Players: Newcastle United did great business selling Ayoze Perez to Leicester City

**This article forms part of our Profit Players feature series, which is where Football Transfer Tavern takes a look at how well a player has fared since being signed or sold, using statistical figures and statements from pundits to prove how good of a deal the club managed to achieve.**

When Newcastle United sold Ayoze Perez to Leicester City for [£30.06m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/transfers/spieler/246968) in last summer’s transfer window, it may have seemed a peculiar decision.

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With a relatively impressive 13 goals and a further four assists in 41 games in all competitions in 2018/19, according to [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/246968/plus/0?saison=2018&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=), he finished as the [top](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/newcastle-united/leistungsdaten/verein/762/plus/0?reldata=%262018) scorer at the Tyneside club that season. Not only was Perez sold, but he was sold to a Premier League rival in the Foxes, therefore strengthening them and weakening the Magpies.

Bought for a mere [£1.8m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/transfers/spieler/246968) from Spanish club Tenerife in July 2014, perhaps nobody at St. James’ Park could have envisaged just how valuable a player Perez was to become in the northeast.

In a total of 148 matches over all competitions across five consecutive seasons for the Toon, the Spanish under-21 international scored 48 times and provided a further 17 assists, as per [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/246968/plus/0?saison=&verein=762&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=).

However, in the 2019/20 campaign under Brendan Rodgers at the King Power Stadium, Perez only managed to net eight times ([three of those in one game](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50092694)) and produce five assists in 40 appearances in all competitions (via the [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/246968/plus/0?saison=2019&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=)), which is arguably a low return considering how much money was paid for him.

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The market value of the 27-year old has also reached a peak of [£27m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ayoze-perez/marktwertverlauf/spieler/246968), so considering that Newcastle sold him for £30.06m, making themselves a big 1670% profit on their initial outlay, it can be argued that they did great business in selling Perez last year.

***Geordies, was selling Perez a great piece of business? Comment below with your views!***