“I don’t know” was the response from Barcelona Sporting Director Deco when he was asked why teenage sensation Arda Guler ended up at Real Madrid and not Barcelona last week. The Blaugrana were in for Guler, and despite optimism in a deal for several days, Los Blancos completed the deal shortly after.
According to Sport, Deco feels he was used as a pawn in the Guler negotiation game. When travelling to Turkey he was under the impression a deal was half done, having reached an agreeement with Fenerbahce. Yet he left Istanbul considerably less so, feeling that agreement would be in jeopardy if another major player entered the race. Ultimately, he believes he was used in order to extract more money from Real Madrid.
Toni Juanmarti claims that the total cost of the deal, excluding Guler’s wages, could surpass €50m. The Turkish club are reportedly somewhat frustrated by the fact that the Gulers are taking home more in fixed fees than they are. Guler’s signing bonus is set at €8m, while his father will take home €15m in commissions.
Cifras del traspaso de Arda Güler.
20M traspaso
10M variables
15M comisión padre (y E.C.)
8M signing bonus
Y 6 años de salario.+20% de futura venta para Fenerbahce.
En el club turco, indignados con el padre: es mayor lo que se llevan los Güler (23) que el club en fijo (20). pic.twitter.com/4mC8tBpYwZ
— Toni Juanmartí (@tjuanmarti) July 10, 2023
Fenerbahce announced the terms of their deal, which amounts to €20m in fixed fees, €10m in variables and 20% of any future sale.
Either way, it is safe to assume the Guler deal is not cheap in general terms, although it may end up looking like a steal if he reaches his potential.
Since were oddly enough including wages in “total cost” to inflate the number for some journo-logic reason, why not include the revenue from merch, shirts and sport success in the calculations?
Ill bet that incomes from that will cover the costs alone and even give plus. Turkey is a huge football market.
Arder gular congratulations wellcome 2 real madrid young messi tukey
Lamine yamal from academy 15 yo.
I must have been seeing things. Surely he isn’t left footed.. wait Vini Jnr is left footed. Brahim Diaz left footed..Mbabpe left footed.. Good luck to him shinning with Madrid Castilla. Money grabbing at such a
Young age. What a shame.
Vini is right footed. Mbappe is mostly right footed
Vinícius Jr. left footed? Are you special or something?
Todd
Lol ye, its the shtstain of this site – the aut. lstic racist with many accounts, who on a daily basis proves what a mental midget he is.
delicious Barcelona tears, since he didnt sign for them (and they fought hard for him to sign, they just well, dont have anything to entice him with) now he is a “moneygrabber” and “we have players like him anyway”.
haha, keep the excuses up, they are at least to say invigorating.
Barca expected to get his price reduced from 17.5M to 2M , pay no agent commission and then push him out to another club for a year so that someone else pays the wages for the first year. The finance situation can be seen from the inability to sign Oriol Romeu for less than 10M. Reality is that Barca cannot get a player unless he arrives for free and gives up his salary. Except for Abumayang, young player is that desperate – especially a young future star.
Yeah, Guler didnt want to give up salary.
What a greedy fellow, right? Imagine signing to get x millions per year but after 2 months, he has to give up 20% because “we cant pay you”. Who wants to sign for that circus of a club? Nobody lmao.
Imagine the nerve on these fckrs. They are still living in 2011 thinking their name alone can sign them players for half price cuz theyll want to play with messi. However reality is a bit more bitter. After 0 CL trophies in 8 years and 2 EL losses its perfectly safe to say that they will need to overpay the little funds they have left in order to sign players. No more free rides LMAO. Meanwhile, Bellingham leaves money on table to sign for us. As will Mbappe.
Btw it was not only Romeu, it was also Ivan Fresna whose 10 mil price tag proved to be too costly. So amusing. Their econonical meltdown is hysterically funny to behold.
Fresneda* fk this autocorrect.
So money was the major issue. You have put a lid on the the discussion by yourself.
He learned from de Jong and didnt want go to a club who cant afford to pay him salary lolololol
* Except for Abumayang, no young player is that desperate – especially a young, future star.
Congratulations guler
Arda Will be a bench warmer in Madrid
Do not bet your house on that.
Barca holding on to messi for too long let them down they should have let Messi go having seeing Madrid letting RONALDO go just to cut cost and plan for the future Barca were so currupt and short sighted and lack sport management I hope they learn
Now we see that madrid of yours being unable to account for 122m of debts(covered up). i guess tebas has some explaining 2 do,as often this is general franco’s club after all.
Is it same Francisco Franco who helped your club out three times and was decorated with 3 gold medals in return, something no club, to my knowledge, have done in Spain? All this while helping the club building Camp Nou?
Going by the logic that you owe your existence to him, that makes Fc Barcelona Generals club.
well come to real madrid arda gulla