On Tuesday, Juventus officially announced the signing of Francisco Conceicao, on loan for the season from Porto. The clubs reached an agreement in the last few hours, and the Italians will pay the Dragons 7 million euros, and this season they will have to pay an additional 3 million euros if the team reaches the Champions League next season. It should also be noted that the agreement does not include an option to buy.
Juventus do not have the right to purchase the option, so the player will return to Porto at the end of the loan. Porto will assume responsibility for the solidarity mechanism and will state that it will cover the costs of intermediary services in the amount of 10% of the total cost, “the Dragons explained in a statement published on their official website.
Francisco Conceicao, 21, will become the 10th Portuguese to represent Juventus, the record holder of Italian titles (36) and current isolated leaders of Serie A with six points from two rounds, joining the current squad of centre-back Tiago Djalo, signed in January from French club Lille.
The son of Sergio Conceição, the former Blue and White coach, the winger was completing his second spell at Porto, where he returned last summer on loan from Dutch side Ajax, scoring eight goals and six assists in 43 matches, convincing the team to exercise the purchase option of 10.5 ME, which exceeds the five ME the Amsterdam club invested two years earlier when they finally acquired him.
Francisco Conceição took part in the pre-season work of the team coached by Vitor Bruno in late July, after playing for Portugal at the final stage of the European Championship in Germany, but was injured for about three weeks and missed the first four official games of the 2024/25 season.
Winner of the Portuguese league and two Portuguese Cups, the striker is linked to Porto for five seasons, until June 2029, with a release clause of 45 ME, an extension that was officially announced on April 23, four days before the most competitive elections in the club’s history, which saw current president André Villas-Boas overthrow Pinto da Costa, who had led the club for 42 years and 15 terms.
Francisco Conceicao is the Dragons’ ninth departure of the summer transfer window, and the third in an attack that also did without Iranian Mehdi Taremi, who strengthened Italian champions Inter for free, and Brazilian Evanilson, acquired by the English from Bournemouth for 37 fixed ME plus 10 variable ME.
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