São Paulo cashes in as second top earner in transfer window | OneFootball

Lucas Ferreira was the biggest sale of Tricolor this mid-season; fans found it low (Photo: Divulgação/SPFC)

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The financial state of São Paulo has surpassed any acceptable limit, and today the club is trying to settle its debts, which reach almost R$ 1 billion, with the help of a consultancy that created an Investment Fund to control Tricolor's irresponsible spending.

Thus, São Paulo is forced to always sell during the transfer windows and has no money to hire. An extremely difficult mission for the management, but they managed as well as possible.

Despite all the problems, Tricolor was still the second club that profited the most from negotiations in this transfer window, with a gain of R$ 131.738 million. The figures are from a survey by the portal GE.com released this Thursday (4).

The good Tricolor balance is more due to the almost no cost in its signings than to the sales made this mid-season.

São Paulo hired four athletes and negotiated the departure of the same number. Among the reinforcements, Rafael Tolói, Tapia, Rigoni, and Maílton, only the last one 'cost' the club something, which still did not have to disburse anything to the holder of the right-back's rights.

As the Ukrainian Metalist, the team to which Maílton belongs, owed 600 thousand euros to Tricolor, the Morumbi club used the pending amount to bring its reinforcement and settle accounts with the Europeans. Thus, the amount spent by São Paulo on signings in this window was about R$ 3.8 million, as the other three names came for free.

To balance the books, the management sold four players, one of them Igor Vinícius to Santos, at no cost. The ones who yielded were Angelo, a Cotia promise still in the base, as well as Alves and Ferreira, recently promoted from the under-20, but who had to be negotiated to Europe due to the club's situation. With these, São Paulo will receive approximately R$ 135 million.

Therefore, deducting the part related to Maílton, results in a profit of almost R$ 132 million for football in this transfer window. Even so, the fans criticized the management for the sales, classified as low by many São Paulo supporters.

Tricolor was only below Botafogo in the profit ranking in Serie A football, which had a positive balance of R$ 196.370 million in the listing. The numbers, of course, do not take into account São Paulo's earnings with some of the players revealed in Cotia, like Antony, through FIFA's solidarity mechanism, which guarantees a percentage of transfers to the training clubs.

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