Barça transfers Nico to Porto for 8.4 million

2023-07-29 20:11:31

Barça have transferred Nico González to Porto. Thus, the first Barça sale on the market is completed, an essential action (or actions) to be able to register the players that LaLiga does not allow due to excess wage bill, and to carry out new additions, as Xavi Hernández intends.

This sale has been consummated, after the official announcement of the transfer. Nico was the only transferable player who had not traveled to the United States (Clément Lenglet, in deals with Tottenham, for example, he is with the squad) and he has remained in Porto for several days until signing the contract this Saturday at the O Dragao stadium .

8.4 million or 8.5 million?

Barça specifies that it will receive 8.5 million euros (8.4 million according to Porto), a net benefit, in any case, for the calculations of the salary limit since Nico was a Barca youth squad. The Galician footballer has signed until 2028 and has a termination clause of 60 million (at Barça it was 500 million).

The Barcelona club reserves a repurchase right estimated at 30 million (four times higher than at the agreed price), as well as a percentage of the 40% of the future sale of the promising midfielder: it would be 24 million more if it were transferred by the 60 million of the clause. It is the value at which Porto has appraised Nico, considering his youth (21 years) and his quality for having already made his debut in the Barça first team. he went with Ronald Koeman, el 15 de agosto de 2021, on the first day of the 21-22 League against Real Sociedad. In that campaign he played 36 games out of a possible 53 and scored two goals.

The only one who leaves money

Last summer, Xavi Hernández told him that he would have fewer playing minutes and Nico went on loan to Valencia. At Mestalla he was only able to play 26 games (one goal) after suffering a fracture in the fifth metatarsal of the left foot. He finished the championship playing 11 of the 12 days as a starter and collaborating in the salvation of the Levantine team.

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Nico, son of the famous former Deportivo captain Fran González, arrived at Barça when he was 11 years old from the Montañeros de A Coruña. This summer he is the only player who has left benefits for the Catalan coffers.

Until now, Barça had only managed to release Samuel Umtiti in exchange for saving his token, as well as that of Jordi Alba, also with a current contract (2024), and that of Álex Collado. Pablo Torre has been loaned to Girona. In October, the club scored the 20 million he received from Atlético for Antoine Griezmann, half of the 40 million he agreed to last summer.