Barcelona stand silent. Atlético Paranense also. Brazilian outlet Globo, however, claims that one of the biggest deals in the history of South American football was completed today! The well-known TV network goes so far as to claim that everything has been officially signed, administratively regulated, and that it is only waiting for the clubs to come out and announce the news.Vitor Roque (18), whom the Brazilians consider a top prospect – and many emissaries of European clubs apparently share the same opinion – signed a six-year contract with the Catalan giants. According to the same source, the value of the entire deal amounts to 74,000,000 euros!It is not the first time that Roque and Barca have been written about in the same sentence, days ago there were announcements that the deal was very close to completion, but each time much lower sums were mentioned. Never more than 45,000,000 euros.74M€ paga Barça por el 🚨 80% de Vitor Roque… 💸El @AthleticoPR 👌 se queda 🚨 20% Derechos 🇧🇷!! 🎁💰40M€ Fijos (R$ 213,4M)21M€ Variables (R$ 112M)13M€ Impuestos y Tasas (R$ 69,3M)=====74M€ TOTAL (R$ 394,8M)Vía Globo Esporte 🇧🇷 @geglobo https://t.co/ypkT7Uly8L https://t.co/sTFQtnLbSb— Kingpmtol (@kingpmtol) July 8, 2023 Globo now exclusively reveals that the fixed part of the transfer will amount to 40,000,000 euros, bonuses (for the number of games, goals, trophies, entering the final part of the race for Balon d’Or and receiving the recognition itself) as much as 21,000,000, that is, taxes and various other fees for managers, which Barcelona bear, are an additional 13,000,000.When all that is added up, as much as 74,000,000 euros should leave the account of the Spanish giant!”This is, on paper, the second largest deal in the history of Brazilian football. Vitor Roque surpassed Endrick’s transfer to Real Madrid (with bonuses of 72,000,000), leaving only Neymar ahead of him, whose transfer from Santos to Barça 88,400,000 euros,” writes Globo.”However, as Atlético Paranense retained 20 percent of the economic rights to Vitor Roque, the management agency that represents the player, led by the businessman Andre Cury, claims that this is actually the biggest transfer in the history of Brazilian football. The entire deal was contracted by Atlético director Alexandre Mattos and one of the directors of Barcelona – Deco. Mattos spent the last three days in Spain and managed to significantly improve the terms of sale at the last minute”.##NAJAVA_MECA_7359253##Globo further states that the Brazilian club has told Barça that they have higher offers for Vitor Roque that have arrived in recent days, from Manchester United, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham. Thus, Mattos managed to raise the price from 45,000,000 to an incredible 74,000,000 euros. Admittedly, some not-so-easy-to-realize bonuses are also included, but if it turns out that Roque is the potential they think he is, Atletico could quickly get the full amount.All this happened after Real Madrid snatched the young Turkish Arda Guler from Barcelona, so the Nou Camp club didn’t have much room to negotiate…The Brazilians managed to get the super-talented attacker to stay in their camp for another year, although it probably wasn’t a problem, considering that Barcelona were aware that it would be difficult to register him this summer.Finally, Globo reveals that the exit clause in the contract with Barca amounts to a BILLION euros!Fifteen percent of the potential 74,000,000 euros goes to Vitor Roque’s first club. Even without that money, it is the biggest transfer in the history of Atlético Paranense. The previous most expensive was Bruno Guimaraes (to Lyon in 2019 for 20,000,000 euros).
