São Paulo: Top earner in transfer window despite no big sales | OneFootball

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

MARCIO MONTEIRO

@avantmtricolor

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 consulting firm that created an Investment Fund to control Tricolor’s irresponsible spending.

Thus, São Paulo finds itself forced to sell players every transfer window and has no money to sign new ones. An extremely difficult task for management, but one they have handled as best as possible.

Despite all the problems, Tricolor was still the second club to profit the most from negotiations in this transfer window, earning R$ 131.738 million. The figures come from a survey by the portal GE.com published this Thursday (4).

The good balance for Tricolor is due more to the almost zero cost of its signings than to the sales made this mid-season.

São Paulo signed four players and negotiated the departure of the same number. Of the new signings, Rafael Tolói, Tapia, Rigoni, and Maílton, only the latter ‘cost’ the club anything, and even then, the club did not have to pay anything to the holder of the right-back’s rights.

Since the Ukrainian club Metalist, to which Maílton belongs, owed 600 thousand euros to Tricolor, the Morumbi club used the outstanding amount to bring in their 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, since the other three arrived for free.

To balance the books, management sold four players, one of them Igor Vinícius to Santos, at no cost. The ones who brought in revenue were Angelo, a Cotia prospect still in the youth ranks, as well as Alves and Ferreira, recently promoted from the under-20s, 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, subtracting the amount related to Maílton, this results in a profit of almost R$ 132 million for football in this transfer window. Even so, the fans criticized management for the sales, which many São Paulo supporters considered too low.

Tricolor was only behind Botafogo in the Serie A football profit ranking, which had a positive balance of R$ 196.370 million on the list.

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