Top talent went to Galatasaray
Only on the Turkish Deadline Day, and thus a week after that in Austria, did top talent Yusuf Demir move from SK Rapid Vienna to Galatasaray in his parents’ home country. Hütteldorfer took 6 million euros from the departure of the 19-year-old, only Robert Beric and Maximilian Wöber generated larger fees in the history of the traditional club. Nevertheless, there was harsh criticism in the social media due to the agreed payment in installments – Rapid will initially receive one million and over the next four years successively the rest – and the late point in time with no possibility of hiring a successor. Sport Managing Director Zoran Barisic commented on this at a press conference on Friday.
“Now the net is obviously spilling over. Thank god I’m not part of it. There are eight million team bosses, a million virologists and apparently now hundreds of thousands of sports directors who know better,” said the 52-year-old cynically (quoted via “table football“). However, this form of installment payment is “usual and nothing unusual in modern football. We do the same thing in purchasing, it’s a completely normal transfer that took place.” Rapid made sure that the further installments would actually be paid.
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In addition, additional millions in income could come from bonuses and an agreed resale participation, said Barisic: “When we brought Yussi back from Barcelona, we extended the contract until 2024 and also anchored a fixed transfer fee. If you add bonuses and the percentage of a resale, there is a good chance that we will earn even more in the future than was agreed with the fixed transfer fee , could have made a permanent move there, but could not prevail after strong preparation. The loan was therefore terminated early at the beginning of the year.
Referring to the late sale, Barisic emphasized: “When the initial offer came in, it was actually out of the question for me that we would go into it. But then we said, if we can get the maximum out of Rapid, we will agree to it record champion. There had been no other offer to sell Demir before, only a Serie A club wanted to loan the U19 national player, who has also appeared four times for the ÖFB-A-Elf. But that was out of the question for Rapid. The club had already confirmed the day before when the transfer was announced that Demir absolutely wanted to accept the offer from Istanbul.
GF Sport Zoran Barišić on the Demir transfer: “Yusi’s contract also contained certain clauses after his return to SK Rapid. The fixed fee plus the additional bonus payments and royalties may exceed this.” #SCR2022 pic.twitter.com/4cyWEKDmBQ
— SK Rapid (@skrapid) September 9, 2022
TM community discusses Yusuf Demir’s transfer from Rapid Wien to Galatasaray
For Galatasaray, Demir has been the most expensive signing this transfer window, tied with midfielder Lucas Torreira. There were also well-known professionals such as Haris Seferovic, Milot Rashica, Dries Mertens, Juan Mata and Mauro Icardi. The fans in the TM community were more than enthusiastic about this. “Just got a big smile on my face. Was against Icardi at first, but the fact that we don’t pay a rental fee and only take over 750,000 euros from his salary is absolutely brilliant. The video of the new additions is just awesome. Wow man, I’m looking forward to this season now, I can’t get my grin off my face. Erden Timur and Dursun Özbek MASTERCLASS”, wrote “ultradana”.
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In the Rapid Forum, the criticism is not as severe as it is on Instagram, for example – but it is still there. “mannymania” means, for example: “For Zoran Barisic, this is actually a sign of inadequacy. Why doesn’t he manage to keep players? Yes, we can now discuss again whether he would have fallen into a motivation hole if the worst had happened, but it is striking how many players regularly swear at our sporting director. Now we have a huge squad with average players and we can’t manage to keep one of our few difference players after the transfer in Austria. The question slowly arises as to whether Zoran Barisic has already said goodbye to his job.
Forum godfather “MaSTeRLuK1899”, with the knowledge of Barisic’s statements at the press conference, strikes a more conciliatory tone: “I don’t think the deal is as wrong as it is presented here. The installment payment is secured several times, you have bonuses that can be easily achieved and which can double the sum again, and with Kühn and Zimmermann you already have the next top talents at the start. You also have to consider that there was hardly any interest in Demir this year and we would have had the theater again next year with the expiring contract.”
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