Rock bottom and still digging: Copa do Brasil exit costs São Paulo R$15m | OneFootball

One of the points discussed exhaustively with Dorival Júnior during the negotiations that brought him back as São Paulo’s head coach was the financial crisis facing the Morumbi club. And the manager’s concern is not without reason.

The elimination by Juventude as early as the fifth round of the Copa do Brasil last Wednesday (13) represented a loss of around R$ 15 million to São Paulo’s already battered coffers.

The elimination alone from the country’s main knockout competition will mean a loss of R$ 13.2 million. The sporting target set by the club at the start of the year was to reach at least the quarterfinals of the competition. Without that, it is already R$ 7 million less in prize money.

Adding to the losses is ticket revenue. Based on last year, when São Paulo reached the quarterfinals, the matches against Goiás (in the round of 16) and Atlético-MG together brought in nearly R$ 4.2 million.

It is possible to estimate that, in the event of qualification, given the lack of confidence in the Brazilian Championship, where the team has collapsed after reaching the top of the table, there would have been greater momentum in the Copa do Brasil, a real chance of winning a title this year.

Rounding out the losses is the dismissal of Roger Machado. The coach’s departure will force Tricolor to pay him a R$ 2.1 million severance penalty.

In an audio leak over the past few days, Harry Massis said he would not fire Roger Machado even in the event of a possible Copa do Brasil elimination because he “didn’t have the money” for termination fines. The coach, however, was fired.

According to AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, the two sides have reached an agreement over the termination, which should be paid in installments.

São Paulo bowed out of the Copa do Brasil having received only R$ 3 million, made up of R$ 2 million in prize money from the CBF and R$ 1.1 million in ticket revenue from the first leg against Juventude. Juventude, incidentally, has already earned more than double what Tricolor has in the national competition.

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