When Benfica sold Darwin Nunez to Liverpool for an initial fee of €75m, everyone knew the Eagles wouldn’t keep all that money.
It was well known that the striker’s former club Almeria would have 20% of the profit, limited to €10m, plus the intermediation and solidarity mechanisms would still take a cut of the remaining amount.
So back in June, when bringing more details of the transfer, Benfica claimed they’d keep €54.13m from the amount received from Liverpool.
As explained by Mais Futebol at the time, €10m was being sent to Almeria, with another €3.75m going to the solidarity mechanism and €7.12m to Gestifute, who intermediated the deal.
It turns out that as Benfica today released their 2021/22 Accounts Report, they revealed they only got €40.5m from the move.
And with an ‘update’ on those numbers, due to ‘effect of the financial update, taking into account the stipulated collection plan, which will be recognised as a financial income in future years’, they’re actually keeping less.
Speaking to members and press, club CEO Domingos Soares de Oliveira said: “The impact of the Darwin sale in this report is around 37 million euros.”
So even though the Eagles initially seemed like having agreed a huge deal with Liverpool, they ended up being able to account for much less, for one of the stars of the summer window. Still, there’s another €25m in bonuses which could reach the Lisbon side.
