Ante Rebic is closing in on a move to Besiktas and it is an exit that will have an impact on AC Milan’s balance sheet for the year.
Fabrizio Romano is reporting that Besiktas and Milan are confident that they will get the Rebić deal closed and sealed by the end of the week as negotiations are advancing between the parties involved.
Meanwhile, TRT Spor in Turkey are reporting that Beşiktaş will pay €500k to the Rossoneri for the former Eintracht Frankfurt man, with €1m in potential bonuses. The 29-year-old is expected to travel to Istanbul over the weekend.
What do those figures mean? As Calciomercato.com writes, Milan have chosen to accept a low figure in order to facilitate his exit and solve a problem that could have also affected the dressing room.
Rebic arrived on loan at first and then he was purchased permanently in the summer of 2020 in an operation which, officially, sees the cost of his card entered in the budget for €0m (basically free, while André Silva went the other way).
It was a move that made it possible to bypass the 50% of the future resale owed to Fiorentina. During the season, however, there were bonuses triggered which took the cost to €6.7m.
By virtue of a five-year contract, today Rebic’s residual value in the accounts is €2.6m and that means Milan will be initially accepting a capital loss of about €2m.
However, this is where salary comes in. Rebic would have earned €3.5m net from Milan for the final two years of his deal. Having taken advantage of the tax advantages of the Growth Decree, that means a cumulative total of around €9m.
