2023-08-10 15:21:57
BarcelonaSegons has advanced the Balearic newspaper Last hour and has been able to confirm the ARA, the captain of Espanyol is leaving the ship. Sergi Darder will sign for a team from his homeland, Mallorca, in exchange for 8 million euros and 2 in variables. Of the money raised, 20% will go to Olympique de Lyon, the club where Darder played before packing his bags for the RCE Stadium in 2017. The Artà midfielder, who renewed his contract as emblem parakeet just a year ago, he will not play in the Second Division and is leaving for a sports project that charms him more. He will play close to home, in Palma, at the age of 29. The operation will become official in the next few hours. The blow was predictable, but that doesn’t stop it from being hard.
Darder was very clear that he did not want to leave Espanyol in any way. That’s why he opposed leaving for Barça, who moved to sign him a few weeks ago. He was aware that dressing up after suffering relegation would be considered little less than a betrayal by a fan who idolized him. The player himself, in fact, has great esteem for Espanyol, as he has taken care to demonstrate in public and in private. In fact, last summer, before renewing until 2026, he already rejected the interest of La Liga clubs such as Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Villarreal and Valencia, in addition to other clubs from Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia, who wanted to sign him as a free agent this summer.
Finally, the footballer has decided to play for Mallorca, which will pay a little more than half (between fixed and variable) of the termination clause he had in case of relegation and from August 1: 15 million of euros Before that date, his freedom cost 10, but no team came close to that figure for a footballer who will be 30 years old in December. With this loss, Joselu’s and the more than likely Braithwaite’s, Espanyol is forced to strengthen itself in order not to deviate from its priority objective, which is none other than to recover the lost category. The first step in this direction will be this Sunday (7:30 p.m.) at Carlos Belmonte in Albacete.
On the other hand, another who leaves Espanyol is the promising Wassim Keddari Boulif, Simo, who abandons the Parakeet discipline to return to Qatari football. The Spanish-Algerian central, only 18 years old, leaves for Al-Arabi and will leave a transfer valued at more than 4 million euros. The Catalan club, however, retains a right of trial and a percentage of a future sale.
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