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“Right here we go quickly.”
Fabrizio Romano has revealed Actual Madrid’s deal to signal former Manchester United defender Alvaro Carreras is ready to be accomplished this week.
However the place the Crimson Devils had been hoping to financial institution a welcome windfall from the transfer, owing to their 20% sell-on clause for the Spaniard, this quantity might lower as new particulars have emerged from the negotiations between the Iberian golf equipment.
A €50 Million Launch Clause
Carreras, 22, joined Benfica from United final summer time after spending the second half of the earlier marketing campaign on mortgage on the Estadio da Luz.
The mortgage deal had included an obligation to purchase clause if Carreras performed no less than 50% of the Eagles’ matches. This was triggered and Benfica signed the left-back on a everlasting deal price a possible £7.5 million.
United retain a 20% sell-on clause for the Carrington graduate in any future deal price greater than £5 million. A buy-back possibility price round £16 million was additionally included.
Carreras’ contract with Benfica accommodates a €50 million (£42m) launch clause, entitling the Crimson Devils to £8.4 million whether it is activated. And after the Spain U-21 worldwide’s spectacular marketing campaign in Portugal final season, Actual Madrid appeared set to do exactly that this summer time.
The La Liga big have recognized Carreras as a key goal to assist new head coach Xabi Alonso remodel the membership’s defence, after offers have already been agreed for Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) and Dean Huijsen (Bournemouth).
A Twist within the Story
Benfica had been believed to be pushing for Carreras’ full launch clause to be triggered with a purpose to sanction his departure from Lisbon, rewarding United with that welcome £8.4m pay day for his or her former star.
🚨💣 EXCLUSIVE: Actual Madrid are closing in on Álvaro Carreras deal… with Rafael Obrador to Benfica included as a part of negotiations.
Fastened price plus Obrador deal on the ultimate levels with golf equipment set to finish the settlement in subsequent days.
Carreras to Actual, right here we go quickly. 🤍🧨 pic.twitter.com/7cbmfkIJC6
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 8, 2025
Tweet: “EXCLUSIVE: Actual Madrid are closing in on Álvaro Carreras deal… with Rafael Obrador to Benfica included as a part of negotiations. Fastened price plus Obrador deal on the ultimate levels with golf equipment set to finish the settlement in subsequent days. Carreras to Actual, right here we go quickly.”
Nevertheless, Romano reveals Los Blancos have now included fullback Rafael Obrador – a 21-year-old left-back for his or her reserve crew, Actual Madrid Castilla – as “a part of negotiations” for Carreras.
Obrador will head to Benfica whereas Carreras arrives on the Bernabeu in the other way with the “golf equipment set to finish the settlement within the subsequent days,” Romano states.
Crucially, the Italian switch professional reveals Obrador’s change will “formally be a separate negotiation” to Carreras, with “a hard and fast price” agreed for the Benfica defender.
This implies United’s sell-on clause for Carreras won’t be formally impacted by Benfica signing Obrador. However, conversely, it may result in the Portuguese membership accepting a decrease price from Madrid for the previous United star.
If Madrid had triggered the discharge clause, as had been hoped at Outdated Trafford, there could be no want for negotiations. Equally, the deal for Obrador wouldn’t influence on Carreras’ transfer on this state of affairs.
This implies Madrid are virtually definitely paying beneath the £42 million launch clause, with Obrador heading in the other way to assist sweeten the deal.
Due to this fact, United are set to overlook out on the total quantity of £8.4m for his or her former pupil, although a substantial price continues to be anticipated because of the market valuation of Obrador – a youth participant but to make a senior look at his present membership – compared to Carreras’ personal worth.
If Benfica had been to decide on to simply accept a drastically decreased price for Carreras to safe Obrador on a equally low cost deal it might lower the quantity the Eagles needed to pay United as a part of the sell-on clause.
Nevertheless, FIFA have regulations in place to stop this tactic with part-exchange transfers involving sell-on clauses required to replicate the market worth of the respective gamers concerned. This implies United can nonetheless anticipate to to obtain nearly all of the projected price from the deal between Madrid and Benfica.
However forward of a pivotal switch window at Outdated Trafford, the place each penny will rely, the Crimson Devils are more likely to be annoyed {that a} deal agreed final 12 months might not pay the total dividends it had appeared to vow this summer time.
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