Transfer News: Riccardo Calafiori’s Move To Arsenal In Jeopardy, Roma Wants Its Share Of The Profit. Serie A FC club Roma has stopped Arsenal’s bid for star defender Riccardo Calafiori with a legal notice. Roma feels entitled to a cut in profit of Calafiori’s move to Arsenal from Basel. The Rome-based FC had a 50 percent sell-on clause when they sold the 22-year-old footballer to Basel. It earned £1.2 million when Calafiori moved onto Bologna.
And now with Calafiori’s move to Arsenal from Bologna, Roma wants its share of the cut, a whopping £6.7 million. Now, Basel and Roma have deployed lawyers to cut their clubs some of the profit. But this will only frustrate Arsenal and delay the onboarding of the Italian footballer.
Calafiori was with Roma for only one season, he made 18 appearances. The footballer said Basel wasn’t his choice and he only moved there because it was the only team left. However, Riccardo is all praises for Basel, saying he found his continuity and rhythm with the club, and played 30 games in a season.
Basel earned four million euros from Riccardo’s sale (in fixed fee), and 50 percent in bonuses of what Bologna will earn from the player’s resale. And Roma believes it’s entitled to 40 percent of Basel’s proceeds from Riccardo Calafiori.
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If all goes well, the Italian defender will sign a five-year deal worth €50 million. He made a mark for himself at the recent UEFA EURO 2024 tournament in Germany, and emerged as a player to look out for.
Former Italian footballer Leonardo Bonucci wanted to see Calafiori with Juventus. He lauded the young footballer as a great defender. Bonucci believes he will be a point of reference for the Italian national team for the next 15 years.
