Title earns FC Porto €3m in agreed transfer bonuses | OneFootball

As a season draws to a close in which FC Porto made the biggest investment ever in strengthening the first-team squad—an investment now reflected in the long-awaited return to the national title—it is now time to add to the accounts the amounts linked to the achievement of objectives by the new champions. The SAD chaired by André Villas-Boas has been detailing the terms of each deal and, as expected—as A BOLA reported throughout the season regarding some players—the league triumph also has an impact on those bonus installments, agreed with the clubs that sold the players’ registrations to the Dragons (in addition to other individual and collective components). In that context, according to information gathered by our newspaper, the amount to be paid for meeting the targets this season stands at three million euros.

This is an already finalized figure, even though there are still two league rounds left to play, and it is directly linked to the four squad members under Francesco Farioli who fulfilled part or all of the objectives defined between FC Porto and the selling clubs: Victor Froholdt (€1 million out of a maximum of €2 million), Alberto Costa (€1 million), Deniz Gul (€200,000) and Alan Varela (€800,000). Of this group, it should be stressed, only two players arrived at the Dragão this season: the Danish midfielder and the Portuguese right-back. Even so, the Turkish striker, signed in the summer of 2024, also had the title win included in the variable component agreed with Hammarby; in Varela’s case, the deal with Boca Juniors was completed in 2023, already under the previous SAD administration, led by Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, but only in his third season in blue and white did the Argentine manage to become champion.

The €3 million relates only to the current season, since the bonuses to be paid for players signed last summer and in January (as is the case with Pietuszewski) will increase in 2026/27 due to FC Porto’s presence in the UEFA Champions League. That was another clause included in several signings, which will raise the investment in names such as Oskar, Gabri Veiga and Borja Sainz, to mention just a few examples. That is, of course, if they all remain in Invicta and play in the Champions League wearing the Dragon on their chest. Even so, it remains a fully justified expense—a clear sign of good judgment by the scouting department and the SAD—and one that, to some extent, ends up being cheap. One need only think of the revenue already guaranteed by direct entry into the biggest club competition: around €40 million… just to begin with!

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