Francisco Conceição (144 Viewers)

Oct 3, 2014
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FC Porto have agreed to let Juventus sign Francisco Conceicao for €32m, split into four instalments of €8m each, higher than the €30m release clause.


Instead, Fabrizio Romano reported FC Porto have accepted the offer of €30m to be paid over four instalments, an even longer schedule than the three suggested earlier today by O Jogo.

According to O Jogo and Sky Sport Italia, the full fee paid is actually going to be €32m in four instalments of €8m each.
This also meant that Francisco Conceicao had to provide written confirmation he would not take the full 20 per cent cut of the transfer fee that he was owed if the move was completed outside of the release clause.


It was reported this morning that he had agreed to give up half that sum, so only take €3m rather than €6m.

He joined Juventus last summer on a one-season loan at a cost of €10m that did not have an option to make it permanent built in. built in.
 
Jul 15, 2002
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When I see this guy play and especially during the CWC, I said to myself there is no way this player is worth a penny less than 30m. Usually release clauses are up front one off payments. So despite recent media reports, I am not surprised in the slightest we paid over for the benefit of spreading the payments over four years.

It goes to show how the media had no idea.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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So we tried to negotiate a discount on the already agreed 30m and have some how ended up paying more? :lol:
probably because the 30mil release clause would have had to be paid all this summer and the board instead negotiated 2mil more paid out over 4 years? :boh: sounds like a good deal to me if we get to keep him and it only takes 6mil from this year's budget.
 

mondo1

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May 14, 2006
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lol every fuckin time

All sources claimed we’d pay less than 30 mil - just this morning they were talking about 23-25 mil and in the end we end up paying more…. But if we sell players it’s the other way around


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cimenk

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Jul 23, 2008
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probably because the 30mil release clause would have had to be paid all this summer and the board instead negotiated 2mil more paid out over 4 years? :boh: sounds like a good deal to me if we get to keep him and it only takes 6mil from this year's budget.
Yes, probably negotiation about the installment. Porto really know how to sell. They wont really use him anyway but after his loan for us there a lot club in PL interested. A club like Wolves and Everton
 

Bianconero_Aus

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May 26, 2009
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I don't understand. If there's a release clause, you trigger it and pay the exact amount of the release fee. How did we end up paying more than the release fee?
Because technically we didn’t trigger the clause. So instead of paying the €30m in one hit (which is how these clauses are activated) we negotiated a deal to pay them a standard transfer fee over four years and gave them slightly more in the process to help sweeten the deal for them.

This still works out better for our balance sheet in the short term and will free up funds elsewhere for other players I assume.
 

Bianconero_Aus

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May 26, 2009
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About fucking time. How many billable hours did that take?

Glad he is staying. If we sign Sancho (please don't) I fucking hope Chico isn't sent to the bench.
It’s increasingly looking like Sancho is the Nico replacement. Our latest offer is €17m, I can see us getting over the line for something like €20m imo. We clearly see Sancho as one of the AMs behind striker and obviously not as a wingback type of player. So that leaves us with 4 players vying for 2 positions (Yildiz, Chico, Sancho, Koop), maybe Adzic too if he isn’t sent on loan?

We really should be looking for an LCB and CM asap as well tbh. Not to mention an RWB to deputise for Costa or vice versa.
 

Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
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"#Juventus reached a preliminary agreement with #Porto for the final purchase of Francisco #Conceição.
Despite the rumors that were pointing towards figures between €20-25M, #Porto has always asked for at least €30M, as the release clause of the player would increase to €45M.
#Porto had received several offers for #Conceição from #Everton, #NottinghamForest and #Leipzig, that were waiting to see if #Juve would close the deal or not and the Portuguese club would have never accepted offers lower than the release clause, preferring to let it expire and to sell the player at higher figures or at least the value of the new release clause at €45M.
#Juventus closed the deal for a sum that could be closer to €31-32M, including taxes.
The key difference is that #Juventus will pay this figure over 4 years, making the deal fiscally lighter compared to paying the full release clause in a single payment.
For the official announcement, #Porto is waiting for a signed document by #Conceição that confirms that he is waivering the 20% of the transfer fee, as part of the agreements on the clause.
#Conceição has shown a strong desire to join #Juventus and a great love to these colors, rejecting offers from the clubs mentioned before.
Initially, the previous #Juventus management had no plans to buy #Conceição and if #Giuntoli was still there, #Conceição would have not been purchased. But the new management decided to move forward with the deal."

[@FabrizioRomano on YouTube via @PuebloJ]
 
Mar 16, 2013
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Because technically we didn’t trigger the clause. So instead of paying the €30m in one hit (which is how these clauses are activated) we negotiated a deal to pay them a standard transfer fee over four years and gave them slightly more in the process to help sweeten the deal for them.

This still works out better for our balance sheet in the short term and will free up funds elsewhere for other players I assume.
The problem is, we likely owe money on our balance sheet on similar deals we made a few years ago.
 

Alin

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Jul 27, 2015
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I feel like there’s no reason to get worked up over this, we got him for the right price regardless.

Most rumors were saying from the very beginning that we were always going to pay the release clause as previously agreed, only that we did not want to pay it all in one transaction and instead asked Porto to accept the payments in installments, which obviously took some time to fully define.
 

PhRoZeN

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Mar 29, 2006
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"#Juventus reached a preliminary agreement with #Porto for the final purchase of Francisco #Conceição.
Despite the rumors that were pointing towards figures between €20-25M, #Porto has always asked for at least €30M, as the release clause of the player would increase to €45M.
#Porto had received several offers for #Conceição from #Everton, #NottinghamForest and #Leipzig, that were waiting to see if #Juve would close the deal or not and the Portuguese club would have never accepted offers lower than the release clause, preferring to let it expire and to sell the player at higher figures or at least the value of the new release clause at €45M.
#Juventus closed the deal for a sum that could be closer to €31-32M, including taxes.
The key difference is that #Juventus will pay this figure over 4 years, making the deal fiscally lighter compared to paying the full release clause in a single payment.
For the official announcement, #Porto is waiting for a signed document by #Conceição that confirms that he is waivering the 20% of the transfer fee, as part of the agreements on the clause.
#Conceição has shown a strong desire to join #Juventus and a great love to these colors, rejecting offers from the clubs mentioned before.
Initially, the previous #Juventus management had no plans to buy #Conceição and if #Giuntoli was still there, #Conceição would have not been purchased. But the new management decided to move forward with the deal."

[@FabrizioRomano on YouTube via @PuebloJ]
Conceicao was supposed to sign the rescinding agreement in his contract before midnight. Noone confirmed that he has signed it in time. Can you imagine the deal collapsing because of something as simple as this.
 

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