DEST LEFT BARÇA FOR FREE
Sergiño Dest's 'farewell' confirms FC Barcelona's new sales policy
It has been 'confirmed' that PSV Eindhoven did not pay anything to FC Barcelona for the transfer of Sergiño Dest and that the Catalans have only benefited from a clause for a future sale and the saving of his salary. It is a more than common practice in Barcelona
The FC Barcelona carries a lot of years without achieving big income through the sale of players. More than the account. The past year concretised the exit of Ousmane Dembélé to Paris Saint-Germain by 50 million euros, but with the exception that the half corresponded him to the player and his agent after the clause that had included in his renewal in 2022. Of rest, to the culés has cost them 'horrors' can generate extraordinary income through the goodbye of his footballers.
With Sergiño Dest has gone back to confirm the history. It left yielded to the PSV Eindhoven in the last season and existed an option of purchase, no compulsory, of ten million euros. The Dutch had the intention to exert it, because it had left very good feelings, but suffered break of previous crossed ligament of his knee that will keep him out of action until 2025 and the plans changed.
The PSV accessed to remain with the footballer, but in conditions very distinct. The Barça finish yielding him, definitively, the rights of the player without cost any and with an only profit: a percentage of a future sale. Neither more neither less after having him fichado from the Ajax, in 2021, by 25 million euros between fixed and variables. For the Barcelona the movement was key, because they needed to save the wage of the player and, more important still, did not go in in the plans of Hansi Flick.
The Barça, without immediate income
The true is that, as we mentioned before, is not an unknown practice in the Barça. In the last years have characterised for obtaining very few profits of the movements of his players; by not being in conditions to negotiate or by not finding offers. They have opted by the exits free ensuring a percentage of a possible movement, for yielding 50% of the rights of his players or a clause of repurchase for 'ensure' can recover them in the future. They are not the only that bet thus in Europe, in any case.
In SPORT, remember the cases Ilaix Moriba (RB Leipzig), Estanis Pedrola (Sampdoria), Trincao (Sporting Portugal), Nico González (Carry), Jutglà (Witches), Aleñá (Getafe), Mingueza (Celtic), Junior Firpo (Leeds) or Mika Marble (Andorra), but the most stood out have been the one of Ez Abde, to the that sold him 50% of his rights to the Real Betis, or the case of a Chadi Riad, also to the Andalusian group, the one who recently left to Crystal Palace and left in the arks of the Barça around ten 'kilos'.
