Ex-São Paulo forward up 1,500% in Europe, still earns club profit | OneFootball

Forward Juan, developed by São Paulo, is indeed set to move from Göztepe, his club in Turkey, to Russia’s CSKA Moscow for the incredible fee of 15 million euros, around R$ 88 million at the current exchange rate.

Juan was initially sold by Tricolor in mid-2024 to England’s Southampton for 900,000 euros. From there, he went straight to Göztepe on loan. The Cotia academy product did well in his first season at the Turkish club, which signed him permanently a year later for the same amount paid to São Paulo, according to transfer market specialist website Transfermarkt.

In this deal with Southampton, Tricolor kept a sell-on percentage for a future transfer, under which it would receive part of the profit if the transfer fee was higher than what the English club had paid. Since it was not, São Paulo received nothing from this arrangement with the English side.

According to ESPN, Göztepe will also keep 10% of the value of any future sale of the player by CSKA.

The increase in value, therefore, in just two years of Juan being away from São Paulo in Europe, was about 1,566%. The forward was far from being a fan favorite and really failed to perform in the shirt of the club that developed him. But couldn’t the club have sold him for a bit more, as the market has now shown?

SO HOW DOES TRICOLOR PROFIT?

Yes, São Paulo made nothing from the sell-on clause in the first sale, but it will now profit thanks to FIFA’s solidarity mechanism, which allocates a percentage of the money to the clubs involved in the player’s development between the ages of 12 and 23. The longer he spent there, the more the former club earns.

In Juan’s case, Tricolor is entitled to 1.5% of the value of any eventual sale of its former forward under the FIFA mechanism. This will bring approximately R$ 1.3 million to São Paulo’s cash-strapped coffers thanks to Juan.

If at Tricolor he played 82 matches between 2019 and 2024, with only seven goals and five assists, Juan broke out in Turkey, where he posted good numbers over two seasons for the club: 60 matches, 19 goals, and nine assists.

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