Monaco sign Joao Moutinho and James Rodriguez for combined fee of £60m

Gonna be an interesting summer with transfers like this.

 

To dodge paying Joao Moutinho's sell on fee they have sold Rodriguez for 59M and Moutinho for 1M

 

Not true!! 45 million euros James and 25 João Moutinho. Sporting Lisbon has a sell on clause of 25% of the values superior to 11 million so Sporting will get 3.5

Still think both should worth about the same but its not 59+1

 

FC Porto has reached an agreement with Monaco, playing in the French League, for the definite transfer of players João Moutinho and James Rodríguez.

To assure the economic and sporting rights of both athletes, Monaco will be paying 70 Million Euros (45 for James and 25 for Moutinho), in what is now the biggest business in history of Portuguese football.

From their official website.

http://www.fcporto.pt/English/News/news_eng_futjamesmoutinhomonaco_240513_75604.asp

 

Clever....loop holes aye.

 

I reckon spurs will end up regretting not signing moutinho when they had the chance

 

I don't think they had the chance. It's surprising he has gone for this fee if Spurs were genuinely interested though. He is worth more than the 25m euro as it is, but with 2 interested clubs I thought they'd be able to bump the price up.

 

Spurs couldn't have purchased him as he was part owned by an agent and not 100% by the club. Similar to the Falcao issue running currently

 

There are ways around it though. Surely all it would take is for Porto to buy the player outright for the fee that would go to the third party and Spurs give Porto the full fee.

 

£££££££

 

Thats the official story

 

How can Monavo afford this considering they've only just been promoted, aren't guaranteed Ligue 1 football next season and will sopn have to abide by the fair play rules?

 

Porto is in the stockmarket they have to give all the details of the transfers. So its two things, official and true

 

Monaco is a Uber Rich place so they can do it

 

They've been owned by a Russian Billionaire since 2001. Dimitry Rybolovlev.

 

Who cares?

 

People who like to see the football happenings across the Globe? It's the biggest financial deal in Portuguese Football history.

I for one thought this was quite surprising and interesting. Will be intriguing to see whether Monaco's spend-spend-spend strategy works and whether they compete with the likes of PSG, Lyon and Marseille next year for the rights of European football.

 

If Monaco do get Falcao as well, I'd say they will win Ligue 1 next season ahead of PSG.

 

Interesting football exists out of England you know.