Álvaro Carreras is positioned as one of the largest sale of Benfica, the European club with the best income balance on the continent.
The sale of Álvaro Carreras is the last to be made of the European football Goldmine. Benfica has become the sales club par excellence and the management that is carried out from Lisbon is admired worldwide. Because the Eagles have exceeded € 800 million of a positive balance in the last ten years, that is, the difference between revenues from sales (more than € 1.3 billion) and costs (€ 625 million) from transfers, according to data from transfer market.
Carreras is the best example of the operation “Made in Benfica”. A young player with potential who joins Da Luz, develops, gets experience in large competitions and ultimately the target of a large club that has to dig deep in his pockets to sign him. If we add to this approach that the enormous youth system of the Portuguese club, which constantly produces talent at elite level, the result is a huge turnover in sales income.
Names such as Joao Félix (127 million to Atlético), Enzo Fernández (121 to Chelsea), Darwin (85 to Liverpool), Ruben Dias (71 to City) was … If the first is an example of a rough diamond in the lower categories, the end of more than more. Or Darwin, for whom they paid 34 to Almería and multiplied its value on the way to Liverpool. Carreras is the last: of the approximately six million he paid to United to the 50 he receives from Madrid. “Development and maximization of talent” is the motto Benfica.
“Portuguese football cannot retain stars, and that is why clubs have specialized in talent detection and sale of several millions of dollars,” explains the Portuguese clubs, which in recent years place four of their teams in the top ten sellers. The totals of Sporting and Porto are approaching € 400 million, while the total of Braga is more than € 250 million.
Naast de Portugese clubs zijn onder de topplekken andere klassieke verkopers zoals Ajax, die traditioneel de belangrijkste competities hebben geleverd, en die de afgelopen jaren Antony hebben overgebracht (95 naar United), De Jong (86 naar Barça), de Light (85 tot Juve) … om meer te verdienen dan een miljard en een positieve balans en een positieve balans en een positieve balans en een positieve balans en een Positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance and a positive balance of the Dutch, the dutinam, the dutinam. Zagreb is also in a top 10 of sellers in which only the French Lille and Lyon are members of the 'Big Five' competitions considered.
A trend that continues in the table when we expand to the Top 25. There is no sign of the Premier League, Borussia Dortmund is the only German club, there is a lot of South -American football (Palmeiras, Sao Paulo, Riverplaat, Santos, Paranese, etc.) and only one Spanish team, villaRreat. The Castellón team is the best example of a competitive and profitable team. This season they transferred Baena to Atlético Madrid (42 million) and Barry to Everton (30 million). In the past decade, many talents have been improved and left for large amounts: Bakambu, Bailly, Nico Jackson, Pau Torres, Sorloth, etc.
Best balance sheets in the past 10 years
1. SL Benfica (Portugal) 819 million
2. Ajax Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 505.
3 RB Salzburg (Austria) 402.
4. Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) 399.
5. FC Porto (Portugal) 372.
6. Losc Lille (France) 371.
7. Sporting Braga (Portugal) 261.
8. PSV Eindhoven (the Netherlands) 258.
9. Olympique Lyon (France) 255.
24. Villarreal (Spain) 150.
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The opposite applies to the clubs that have done the worst business deals between signing sessions and sales. And the Premier League takes the cake here. Moreover, the relationship between invested money and titles is not proportionate. Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City occupy the top three places with more than a billion lost. Only PSG, fourth, reaches those figures. Milan and Juventus are the Italian representatives at the top of a table with all Hilal from Saudi Aarabia.
Real Madrid, Down 399 After the investment in Carreras, and Barça, Down 349, move in comparable numbers, but far from the millions of the Premier League. To give you an idea, of the 25 teams with the worst record, there are 12 English, and there are fewer teams from Spain (only the big two) than from Saudi Aarabia, because besides all Hilal Cristiano Ronaldos are already Nassr and Al Ahli, the new thriving Arabic football club.
Worst balance sheet in the past 10 years
1. Chelsea (England) -1,321.
2. Manchester United (England) -1,318.
3. Manchester City (England) -1,148.
4 PSG (France) -1.017.
5 Arsenal (England) -931.
6 Tottenham (England) -820.
7 AC Milan (Italy) -609.
8 Juventus (Italy) -606.
9. Newcastle (England) -602.
10. Al Hilal (Saudi -Arabia) -577
14. Real Madrid (Spain) -399.
16. Real Madrid (Spain) -349.