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One of many main offers in the direction of the tip of the winter window was the switch of Nico Gonzalez to Manchester Metropolis, which additionally had implications for FC Barcelona.
Nico, a Barça academy product left for Porto in 2023, with the Blaugrana retaining a 40% future sell-on clause for him.
The 23-year-old midfielder ended up leaving Porto for €60 million (the worth of his launch clause) on the deadline day, which meant a considerable earnings for Barcelona.
Barcelona happy with the operation
Now Mundo Deportivo experiences that Barcelona are more than pleased and happy by the ‘bonus’ that they obtained from Nico Gonzalez’s switch from Porto to Manchester Metropolis.
Initially, it was believed that Barcelona had been entitled to 40% of the €60 million switch payment, amounting as much as €24 million.
Nico left Porto to affix Man Metropolis. (Picture by Octavio Passos/Getty Photographs)
Nevertheless, Porto later introduced that the Blaugrana would solely obtain simply over €13 million.
It was as a result of earlier than accepting Manchester Metropolis’s provide, the Portuguese staff paid €3 million to scale back Barça’s share of the capital acquire by half, to twenty%.
In whole, together with Nico’s preliminary transfer to Porto, who paid Barcelona €8.5 million in the summertime of 2023, the academy product contributed a complete of €21.82 million to Barcelona’s coffers.
Even if the ultimate quantity was lower than initially anticipated, Barcelona extremely valued the operation and are happy with the deal.
Moreover, Barcelona are additionally planning to duplicate this sample in future operations.
Quite than specializing in loans, the place there’s a danger of a participant’s worth lowering, the precedence will probably be on transferring younger gamers to promoting groups like Porto or their different Portuguese rivals, whereas securing a share of a future sale and a buy-back possibility.
