Rock bottom and still digging: São Paulo lose R$15m with Copa exit | 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 to Juventude as early as the fifth round of the Copa do Brasil last Wednesday (13) represented a loss of around R$ 15 million for São Paulo’s already weakened 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. Without that, the club is already losing R$ 7 million in prize money.

Ticket revenue adds to the losses. Based on last year, when São Paulo reached the quarterfinals, the matches against Goiás (in the round of 16) and Atlético-MG brought in, combined, 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 increased focus on the Copa do Brasil, a real chance of winning a title this year.

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

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

Both parties, as learned by AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, have reached an agreement for 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 from ticket sales for the first-leg match against Juventude. Juventude, incidentally, has already earned more than double what Tricolor has in the national competition.

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