Slate him now! Cotia-made striker could net São Paulo millions at CSKA | OneFootball

Admit it, São Paulo fans, you’ve probably cursed striker Juan plenty of times, now 24 years old and a product of the youth academy in Cotia. He made 82 appearances for Tricolor between 2019 and 2024, with seven goals and five assists during that spell. He currently plays for Göztepe in Turkey, but he has drawn interest from other European clubs.

According to specialized media, CSKA Moscow of Russia is in advanced talks with the Turkish club to sign the former Tricolor player. In fact, Juan is on loan at Göztepe from Southampton since moving to Europe.

Juan was bought by the English club from São Paulo in August 2024 for 900,000 euros. He then went straight to Turkey, where he has put up good numbers in two seasons for his new club: 60 matches, 19 goals, and nine assists.

In this deal with Southampton, Tricolor kept a sell-on percentage for a future transfer, through which it will receive part of the profit if the transfer fee is higher than what the English club paid. That would already mean some extra cash for the struggling coffers of the Morumbi club.

In addition, São Paulo is also guaranteed a profit in the event of a transfer involving its former player thanks to FIFA’s solidarity mechanism, which allocates a percentage of the fee 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 eventual sale of its former striker through the FIFA mechanism.

According to the respected Transfermarkt, Juan’s current market value is 12 million euros (about R$70 million at the current exchange rate). However, the asking price for CSKA could reach as much as 20 million euros for the Brazilian, in a deal worth around R$116 million.

If those figures are reached, São Paulo would receive around R$1.76 million. Added to the sell-on clause, Tricolor’s profit would exceed R$2 million from a likely sale of Juan in the transfer window. Every bit of money matters for a club going through the biggest financial crisis in its history.

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