He Inter Miami paid to Atlético de Madrid an amount close to 15 million euros for its transfer. The mattress club agreed to formalize an operation in which the US painting could not deal with the payment of that amount right now and had to adhere to a assignment. Not even that gesture by the club, it seems that it was valued by Of Paul.
According to US media, the Argentine will receive around 12 million dollars in his new destination, in a contract for four seasons, which will link it to Inter Miami Until 2029. In the mattress box he charged around 6.5 million per season.
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Your contract with the Atlético de Madrid He won in 2026 and no agreement had been reached for renewal. In addition, he wanted to continue his career with his friend Leo Messi, To prepare the World that will be played precisely in USA.
Why did you have to opt for assignment? Well, on account of the regulations of the Mlswhich has a salary stop system and more restrictive signing rules than European leagues.
The American competition allows the existence of three files of ‘Designated players’with high wages, which exceed the cost of the template. To put it in context, only the file of Of Paul in it Athletic already exceeded the salary expense of the entire template of Inter Miami.
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How do you make players like Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba either Luis Suárez? Hosting that figure of the ‘designated player’, whose salaries do not compute inside the salary stop of the rest of the companions.
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The problem in this regard is that, the team chaired by David Beckham He already had his three players with this special file: Messi, Busquets and Dawn. It happens that the Catalan midfielder, Sergio Busquetswill leave it in December, when the season ends in USAand release the file that will remain to Of Paul.
Hence, the Of Paulit was not a direct signing from the Atlético de Madridbut a assignment until December, when the Inter Miami will pay the 15 million to the mattress team.
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Until then, the Athletic It will receive an amount, which has not transcended, for the assignment of the player to the American painting. And could not have waited to December? Well, for accounting purposes, the mattress team was interested in being now, even if it was not charged until December, because it enters the income part of the previous season, something that will help in the ‘Financial Fair’ Fair ‘and in the salary expense of the coming course. In the eyes of FIFAif demonstrated, with documentation, that a transfer began to negotiate before June 30, counts for the current season (in this case 24/25) although it closes a month later.
