São Paulo youth striker up 1,500% in Europe sale, profits Tricolor | OneFootball

Forward Juan, developed by São Paulo, really is set to transfer from Göztepe, his club in Turkey, to Russia’s CSKA Moscow for the incredible fee of 15 million euros, around R$ 88 million at the current exchange rate.

Juan was initially sold by Tricolor in mid-2024 to England’s Southampton for 900,000 euros. From there, he went straight to Göztepe on loan. The Cotia academy product did well in his first season at the Turkish club, which signed him permanently a year later for the same amount paid to São Paulo, according to the transfer market specialist website Transfermarkt.

In that deal with Southampton, Tricolor kept a sell-on clause for a future transfer, under which it would receive part of the profit if the transfer fee was higher than what the English club had paid. Since it was not, São Paulo received nothing from this arrangement with the English side.

According to ESPN, Göztepe will also keep 10% of the fee from any future sale of the player by CSKA.

The increase in value, therefore, in just two years of Juan being away from São Paulo in Europe, was around 1,566%. The forward was far from being a fan favorite and really did not manage to perform in the shirt of the team that developed him. But couldn’t the club have sold him for a bit more, as the market has now shown?

SO HOW DOES TRICOLOR PROFIT?

Yes, São Paulo did not earn anything from the sell-on clause in the first sale, but it will profit now thanks to FIFA’s solidarity mechanism, which allocates a percentage of the money to the clubs involved in the player’s development between the ages of 12 and 23. The longer he stayed, the more the former club earns.

In Juan’s case, Tricolor is entitled to 1.5% of the value of any transfer of its former forward under FIFA’s mechanism. This will bring approximately R$ 1.3 million into São Paulo’s much-needed coffers because of Juan.

If at Tricolor he played 82 matches between 2019 and 2024, with only seven goals and five assists, Juan broke through in Turkey, where he posted good numbers over two seasons for the club: 60 matches, 19 goals, and nine assists.

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