Benfica secured the signing of Ukrainian international goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, who signed a five-year contract, the national football champions announced on Thursday, paying 10 million euros (ME) to Shakhtar Donetsk.
“Sport Lisboa e Benfica — Futebol, SAD informs that it has reached an agreement with FC Shakhtar Donetsk for the acquisition of all rights of the player Anatolii Trubin, for the amount of 10 ME, to which the sum of one million euros must be paid added paid according to predefined objectives”informed Benfica’s SAD in a statement to the Securities Market Commission (CMVM).
The SAD incarnate reveals that Shakhtar Donetsk “he is also entitled to a percentage of 40% of the value of any capital gain obtained on a future transfer of the said player”with a goalkeeper contract that runs until June 30, 2028, including a termination clause worth 100 ME.
Trubin, 22, is the third Ukrainian player in Benfica’s history, succeeding midfielder Sergey Kandaurov, who represented the Reds between 1998 and 2001, and striker Roman Yaremchuk, who joined from Ghent in 2021 but left Luz a year ago.
The goalkeeper terminated his contract with Shakhtar next year, having completed all his training with the Donetsk club, for whose main team he made his debut at the age of 18, in May 2019, under the hand of Portuguese coach Paulo Fonseca, and became Ukrainian champions in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2022/23.
It is the fourth reinforcement that Benfica has brought in for the new season, after the Turkish midfielder Orkün Kokçü (ex-Feyenoord), the Argentinian Ángel Di María (ex-Juventus) and the Czech defender David Jurásek (ex-Slavia de Praga).
In Luz, the Ukrainian giant (1.99 meters tall) joins Odysseas Vlachodimos, Samuel Soares and André Gomes in the goalkeeping squad of the national champions and meets Brazilian David Neres, his former colleague at Shakhtar.
Source: DN
