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Darwin Nunez: Why Benfica will imminently earn just €55 million of €100m total move to Liverpool

Darwin Nunez moved to Liverpool after reachingan agreement to go to the Premier League powerhouses for an accumulatedtransfer fee of €100 million. However, it appears that his former side Benfica will not acquire the entire sum of the transaction. Here, find out why.

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By martina alcheva

Darwin Nunez of Liverpool
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The terms of Liverpool‘s costly purchase of Darwin Nunez have been published by Benfica. When compared to a player who last competed for Almeria in La Liga two years ago,those numbers might be considered to be absolutely staggering.

What is interesting is that the Lisbon-based team haveset a number of restrictions on the move to guarantee that they make a profit after parting with their best striker. Nunez has agreed to a six-year agreement that would pay him about €163,000 per week at Anfield.

The Portuguese sidehavealso placed a number of terms on his transfer, which is why the Reds have forked out an initial payment of €75 million, in addition to a further €25 million in readily reachable add-ons. However, the Liga Portugal giants will only earn a total of €55 millionfrom the upfront payment and will not collect the whole amount of the transfer price.

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Why Benfica will coup only€55million from Darwin Nunez’s sale

This is due to the fact that Nunez’s old club,Penarol of Uruguay, will make a profit of€2million from the sale. Meanwhile, another one of the 22-year-old’s ex-sides, Almeria, will rake in €10 million after negotiating a condition in their contract to sell to Benfica.

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The Eagleswould suffer a further setbackto their financial stability as a result of the loss of an additional 10 percentof the original charge to ‘intermediation services.’ This loss equates to €7 million.Benfica will be seeking to recoup some of their losses via performance-related add-ons, which could bring the overall worth of the contract to €100million if all of them are fulfilled.

English newspaper The Mirror suggest that they include €10 million for individual and group performance goals, €5 million after he plays 10 games under Jurgen Klopp, and another €10 million once he hits the 60-game milestone.

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What Benfica said aboutNunez’s sale

“Sport Lisboa e Benfica – Futebol, SAD (“Benfica SAD”) confirms, following the statement released on June 13, 2022, that the transfer of the rights of the player Darwin Nunez to Liverpool is confirmed FC, for the amount of €75million. It is further explained that Liverpool FC will be entitled to retain the solidarity mechanism for further distribution to the clubs that participated in the player’s training.

“Additionally, Benfica SAD will have charges for intermediation services of 10% of the sale value deducted from the solidarity amount and will also have to deliver to UD Almeria the amount corresponding to 20% of the value of the capital gain obtained with this transfer, up to a limit of €10million,” the Portuguese club explained in astatement:

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