The fixed €60m (ME) paid by Paris Saint-Germain to Sporting CP for the signing of Uruguayan international midfielder Manuel Ugarte is the fifth most expensive transfer for a player in Portugal’s First League.
The Alvalade-based club officially closed a deal with the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM) this Friday, even confirming the highest fixed sale in its history, just above the 55 IU invested by Manchester United during 2019/20. Bruno Fernandes, who was later joined by 10 ME on goals.
Manuel Ugarte, 22, rounds out the top five in the “ranking” of transactions handed over by national clubs to the capital market regulator, the table dominated by Benfica’s four sales since the change of world champion Enzo Fernández. qualifiers for Argentina, for Chelsea, for 121 ME in January 2023.
Also on that podium are Joao Felix, who joined the Spaniards from Atlético de Madrid for ME 120 in 2019, and Uruguayan Darwin Nunez, who was introduced last summer by the English from Liverpool in exchange for a flat fee of ME 75 plus ME 25. in variables.
The Eagles also scored 68 OE plus 3.6 OE in 2020 when Rubén Diaz signed three-time English champions and defending European champions Manchester City.
The Brazilian Eder Militao, who was paid 50 ME by the Spaniards from Real Madrid in 2019, marked the biggest transfer from Porto, which included Colombians Luis Diaz (Liverpool 2022) and James Rodriguez (Monaco) , 2013) in the amount of 45 ME each.
Sporting added the same amount with the Spaniard Pedro Porro (Tottenham) and Nuno Mendez (Paris Saint-Germain), who even initially left with a rental commission of five and seven ME, respectively, and Matheus Nunez (Wolverhampton) surrendered, immediately, 45. ME, an amount that is likely to change within five ME in variables.