Benficas Transferplus grows
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Brazilian Série A is richer by another million transfer and climbs up in the ranking of expenses in the world in a global comparison: Benfica Lisbon comes from Benjamín Rollheiser (24), who moved from Argentina to Portugal a year ago, to FC Santos. While the Brazilian upper house in the current transfer window according to expenses so that the French Ligue 1 trumps after the European winter change period, Benfica also goes up with its transfer balance in a global comparison. For Rollheiser, a transfer is to flow that is slightly above the price that was paid in 2024.
FC Santos is to shell out 11 million euros for the wing striker. The club, which Superstar Neymar was able to get from Saudi Arabia in January, only made a transfer in the double-digit million range for the second time in its history. The only obligation that was even more expensive (Leandro Damião) was more than eleven years ago. For Série A, the total edition for obliged players of all clubs increased in the current transfer window with Rollheiser and the Camilo (25, for 1 million to Grêmio), which was also changed on Wednesday) to EUR 214 million – third place of all leagues worldwide and record within one Transfer window for the Brazilians. The clubs of the French Ligue 1 had invested just over 202 million euros in January. The Bundesliga teams made 181.35 million (6th place). Background: This is how the shopping frenzy in Brazil comes about.
For Benfica, revenue with the sales of Rollheiser, for which one had paid 10.5 million euros last year, increased to more than EUR 160 million this season – global number. After transfer balance of income compared to expenses – an increase of 86.32 million – the Portuguese are even third behind league FC Porto.
Rollheiser’s balance sheet in the first half of the Portuguese league reads very much like that after the second half of the past season. Nine times, but only once from the start, the Argentinian was used and scored one goal. In the current season, six mostly short stakes were added in the Champions League. Here, too, he was in the starting XI. His contract at FC Santos runs until the end of 2028.