Between the initial agreement with Benfica and this new transfer to the Premier League, the Núñez club will receive more than 50 million euros thanks to the midfielder. The leadership already has its destiny defined.
And at from Enzo Fernandez It is the most important sale in the history of Argentine football it is also -logically- for River. It is that the Núñez institution will end up receiving, in total, more than €50 million by the central midfielder, who was transferred from Benfica of Portugal to Chelsea of England on the brink of the closing of the European transfer market for a total of 121,000,000 euros.
River corresponds to a 25% of the transfer given that last July, when he sold the young midfielder who just turned 22 years, he kept that percentage of the pass. Therefore, the amount that the Núñez club will receive for the millionaire operation is €30 millionbecause the English club runs the termination clause.
To this amount must be added 18 million euros more: 10 are from the original sale to Benfica in August 2022 and another 8 correspond to bonuses depending on the number of games Fernández will play. The Argentine put on the ‘Águilas’ shirt 29 times, meeting the first two steps of that goal (10, 25, 40 and 50 appearances), although the Portuguese club will pay for that full agreement, because it was agreed that way.
And you also have to add 3.5% of the solidarity mechanismwhich is equivalent to about 4 million eurowhile the remaining 1.5% (close to 2 million euros) corresponds to Defense and Justicewho had a year and a half on loan.
Of the more than 50 million euros that River pockets for the total amount of the operation, to the Núñez treasury it enters pesified at the value of the official exchange rate (Today the price of the euro is trading at 203 pesos), which can vary according to the moment in which you receive the quotas.
This last part, the most bulky, will receive it in three or four parts, according to what is defined with Benfica in the next few hours. And of everything that enters, it must discount 25.7% tax (15% of the soccer player; 7% to the national State; 2% to AFA; 1.2% in CABA stamps; 0.5% to Argentine Soccer Players Associations).
A large part of that money (it will not be necessary to allocate it to the Monumental mega-work, which is already practically covered since it can be self-financed with genuine income) River will be able to use it to reinvest it in football. Both in its lower divisions and in further hierarchizing its squad from June and having a good economic ceiling to increase the coffers and sustain the dream of having the return of more figures that emerged from their quarry or a world champion like Nicholas Otamendi.
Enzo, precisely, was a player made in River. He arrived at the club with just 6 years and he was formed not only as a footballer, but also as a person. And after making his debut in Primera, he went on loan to Defensa y Justicia, where he had a fruitful step by playing at a high level and being champion of the Copa Sudamericana and the Conmebol Recopa.
Later he returned to River to be champion of the Professional League and the Champions Trophy and in just one year he made the leap to European football. He and also the Argentine National Team, with which he established himself in Qatar, being the revelation and one of the figures of Lionel Scaloni’s team.
“Being the most expensive sale in Argentine soccer and one of the most expensive in English soccer is a great pride for all of us who contribute a grain of sand in its growth. But it is all thanks to Enzo, who never gave up and who always went for more, and to his family, who always supported him ”he told Clarion Pablo Esquivel, one of its discoverers, who gave the alert to River to sign him when little Enzo was already unstitching at just five years old at the La Recova de San Martín baby club.
Enzo Fernandez, who grew up in a humble family in which he shared a roof with his parents and four siblings, rewarded his training. And by far. First, with football and values. now with money.