This Saturday, Sporting officially made the final sale of the pass of Spanish footballer Pedro Porro to the England team of Tottenham, for 40 million euros (ME), after the ‘Spurs’ activated the mandatory purchase clause agreed in January.
In a statement to the Securities Market Commission (CMVM), the Alvalade club reported that “Tottenham has notified Sporting SAD of the exercise of its option to definitively acquire the player’s sporting rights, for the additional amount of EUR 40,000,000 (forty ). million euros)”.
The total value of the transfer is 45 ME, taking into account that the London emblem had already paid five million euros for the loan of the Spanish international fullback, confirmed on the last day of the winter market, on January 31. .
As they realized then, the ‘lions’ recall in the note that “the value of the solidarity mechanism resulting from third-party clubs will be borne for about 95% by Tottenham, leaving the remaining 5% responsible for Sporting SAD”, the costs for mediation services are 2.38 ME.
Since being loaned out to Tottenham, Porro has made 17 appearances and scored three goals for the Spurs, who finished eighth in the last Premier League, out of European competitions next season.
Porro joined Sporting in the 2020/21 season, on loan from Manchester City, after the previous season, in 2019/20, he was loaned to Valladolid by the ‘citizens’.
On the podium of Sporting’s most expensive sales
Porro immediately entered the stage of Sporting’s most expensive sales abroad, with a total of 45 million euros (ME).
After signing from Manchester City for 8.5 ME, the 23-year-old winger earns five times more for the Alvalade club’s ‘cash’, for which he played two and a half seasons, until he left for the Londoners in January, who paid EUR 5 million for the loan in an initial phase, before finalizing the transfer today, for another 40 ME.
The amount that the ‘spurs’ will pay to Sporting makes Pedro Porro one of the most important transfers of the ‘lions’ abroad, surpassed only by Bruno Fernandes to Manchester United who paid 55 ME in January 2020 for the midfielder.
Tickets were also sold for 45 ME for the Portuguese internationals Matheus Nunes and Nuno Mendes to Wolverhampton and Paris Saint-Germain respectively.
The left back was loaned to the French in 2021, who initially paid seven million euros for the transfer, before exercising the purchase option at the end of that season (2021/22) for a further 38 ME. midfielder joined the English club in August last year.
In fifth place among Sporting’s most expensive sales comes a player who now plays for a rival club of ‘green and white’, namely midfielder João Mário, from Benfica, who was transferred to the Italians from Benfica in 2016, shortly after the European Championship. Inter Milan for 40 ME.
At the same time, during his first spell at Alvalade, Algerian striker Slimani earned 30 ME with the move to Leicester, soon followed on this list by Nani, who, more than 15 years after his transfer to Manchester United in 2007, continues to feature in the ‘top 10’ most profitable for Sporting, compared to the 25.5 ME paid by the ‘red devils’.
Gelson Martins, who left with the ‘lions’ in 2018 to sign for Atlético de Madrid, would eventually earn 22.5 ME a year later, while Brazilian winger Raphinha, currently at FC Barcelona, was paid 21 ME in 2019 transferred. , for Rennes and compatriot Wendel went to Zenit in 2020 for 20.3 ME.
Source: DN
