With signs that Ederson is heading for the exit, there is growing confidence that Manchester City will be on the market for a new goalkeeper very soon.
Earlier this week, ESPN reported that Al Ittihad and Al Nassr had approached the English Premier League champions, making donations to Brazil believed to be around £25 million ($32 million).
The reaction was that both sides are strangely open to the idea, but while Ederson is willing to move to the Saudi Pro League side, City are expecting a payment of around £40 million ($51. 6 million) in return.
That value immediately deterred Al Nassr, who signed Athletico Paranaense goalkeeper Bento on Friday, but rival Al Ittihad, home of N’Golo Kanté, Fabinho and Karim Benzema, are reportedly interested in a deal.
Ederson, of course, has been Pep Guardiola’s starting goalkeeper for the past seven seasons and has two years left on his contract, and the coach appreciates his ability on the ball almost as much as his shooting prevention prowess.
However, it turns out that City have wasted no time in finding a replacement following the loss of their man, with La Gazzetta dello Sport temporarily linking them with Italy captain Gianluigi Donnarumma.
After moving to PSG after the Azzurri won the 2021 UEFA European Championship, he established himself as a first team at the Parc des Princes and made 114 appearances for the club.
Donnarumma, a Ligue 1 winner in his three seasons there, has only reinforced his reputation as one of the world’s most productive goalkeepers, recording 29 blank sheets in 80 league games.
According to FBRef, they conceded just 0. 97 goals per 90 minutes last season, saving 80. 2% of the shots they faced. That number puts Donnarumma in the 98th percentile of Europe’s top five leagues, with Ederson conceding just 0. 87 goals per 90 minutes last season. In the game, he has only shot 67. 4 percent against him (25th percentile).
City will also be keenly aware that Donnarumma is still only 25 while Ederson is about to turn 31, while PSG’s €20 million ($21. 69 million) acquisition of Russian goalkeeper Matvey Safonov It will also help convince the French team to do so. company.
AC Milan will no doubt be following them closely, as the rules on “solidarity contribution” (set out in Annex Five of the FIFA Regulations) allow them to benefit from any potential decision.
This rule specifies that 5% of any refund “shall be deducted from the total amount of this refund and distributed through the new club as a solidarity contribution to the club or clubs concerned in their schooling years. “
This is because a club that develops a player in its academy is entitled to a refund of any long-term transfer fee for a player who registered with it between the seasons in which he turned 12 and 23, as follows :
Without concrete sums with which to paint, let’s say, for example, that City will pay PSG 60 million euros ($65. 09 million) for Donnarumma and then, according to FIFA rules, 5% of that sum would be the solidarity contribution.
In that case, the sum would be 3 million euros ($3. 25 million) and Milan would owe about a penny of that sum, since Donnarumma played for them between the ages of 15 and 22.
That would allow the Rossoneri to earn around 2. 25 million euros ($2. 44 million) for a player who let them loose just 3 years ago.
It would also see Manchester City sign arguably the world’s goalkeeper.
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