Atlético to Porto gift: 12 million for 35% of Samu. An economically indefensible operation that can only be understood from the need to enter immediate money to face some imminent signing. In total the Melillense striker He has left the Portuguese club for 32 million euros. A true bicoca taking into account his age and international projection. Atlético wins 31, because he bought it from Granada for six, but gives the feeling that In the long run it will end up pulling the hairs.
Porto has executed today the clause that allowed him to acquire 15% of Samu's rights for 5 million euros, according to the contract signed last summer. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but the irregular thing is that Atlético has sold him the 20% of the player for the ridiculous figure of 7 million euros. To give a practical example: if tomorrow the Porto sells the striker for 50 million, a low figure in the striker market, and more than his age, Atlético had entered 10 million. So that it is profitable to have yielded its 20% for 7 the port must always sell it below 38 million.
Remember that Porto bought 50% of SAMU rights for 15 million euros last year, but that the agreement included two clauses that allowed it to increase 15% more in each case for additional 5 million. In total, and that was expected, for 30 million euros obtained 80% of the pass of the Melillense attacker, an absolute international with Spain. From now on with 32 it already has everything.
It should be specular, because it is the only reasonable explanation, that Atlético urgently needs those 12 million of Porto to face an imminent signing, surely for a first payment for which it lacked liquidity. However, that comes within the land of the hypothesis because, at the outset, the Madrid club has not yet made official the sale of Samu's rights, something that has carried out the Porto, and also with hairs and signs, as it forces its status as a club that lies in the stock market.
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