Understand why Antony’s transfer to Manchester United prevented São Paulo from trading three base players in 2022

São Paulo, the athlete’s training team, profited around R$ 100 million, since the contract stated that the São Paulo players would have the right to profit from a percentage when the Dutch sold the athlete.

With the amount collected, the São Paulo leadership understood that it would not need to sell its athletes trained at the base, such as left-back Wellington and defensive midfielders Pablo Maia and Rodrigo Nestor.

In an interview, the president of São Paulo, Julio Casares, revealed that some proposals had arrived for the three players, but that they decided to hold them, as they were waiting for that pix from Ajax in relation to Antony, but, if there was no way, he would go negotiate the athletes, because there would be no other way out.

These three athletes quoted to be sold to generate profits for São Paulo’s coffers are often used by coach Rogério Ceni, with Nestor being an absolute starter in the tricolor midfield.

In addition, Nestor received a proposal from Dinamo de Kiev, from Ukraine, while Botafogo even looked for São Paulo wanting to offer R$ 26 million for the midfielder.

In the case of Pablo Maia, the athlete was sought after by Fulham, from England, and Wellington has already been on the radar of Bayer Leverkusen, from Germany, and recently, from Besiktas, from Turkey.

Antony was sold to Manchester United at the beginning of the second half of 2022. The amount of R$ 100 million raised with the sale of the attacker was almost half of what the tricolor managed to acquire over the last year, about R$ 228 .6 million. The amount was fundamental in the surplus of R$ 37 million, managing to close in black for the first time in three years.

São Paulo has been monitoring the international market in order to acquire possible revenues from players who maintain economic rights, such as defender Morato, who is playing for Benfica in Portugal, and midfielder Gabriel Sara, who has been winning the affection of Norwich fans , from England, and striker Brenner, from Cincinnati, from the USA.

In the case of Bremmer, São Paulo has a 20% future profit when the Americans decide to sell him. In addition, the tricolor still holds 15% of Morato’s rights and another 10% of Gabriel Sara.

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