Roger, heads up: São Paulo renews Cotia CB, eyes promotion; see fee | OneFootball

After a few weeks of negotiations, São Paulo has agreed to a contract renewal with center-back Isac, one of the standout players of the club’s under-20 team in Cotia.

The club signed a new deal with the defender running through 2030, along with an astronomical release clause to fend off the strong European interest the São Paulo player has been attracting in recent months. For foreign clubs, it has been set at 100 million euros (R$ 595 million at the current exchange rate). In the domestic market, the clause is R$ 80 million.

Isac’s previous contract was valid until 2027, with a domestic release clause of R$ 25 million. As he received a generous raise in the renewal, the buyout figures also skyrocketed. AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR had already revealed in March that São Paulo was already working on the idea of integrating Isac into the senior squad at Barra Funda, now that the club has sorted out the bureaucratic issues.

Even more so now that the club has lost Arboleda, with whom it intends to terminate the contract after the senseless behavior of the Ecuadorian center-back, who disappeared and failed to inform anyone. Isac, who has nothing to do with the situation, could take advantage of the opportunity in Roger Machado’s team.

The young defender is seen as a “modern” center-back, with good ball distribution, strong reading of the game, and consistently solid marking, while still performing his main role well.

Isac drew attention by forming a strong center-back pairing with Osório in this 2026 Copinha, during São Paulo’s runner-up campaign. That was when he began catching the eye of European clubs, which always keep a close watch on Brazil’s traditional youth tournament. He also showed his attacking threat. The big center-back scored three goals in the Copinha, one of them in the 2-1 defeat to Cruzeiro in the final.

Isac Silvestre da Silva is 19 years old, turns 20 in April, and is from the city of Brejo Santo, in Ceará. He came through the youth ranks of Sport and Bragantino before joining Tricolor in 2025, when he quickly began to stand out for the under-20 team.

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