In the field, Tricolor Paulista has been able to respond after the arrival of Hernán Crespo, approaching the fight for Libertadores in Brasileirão and has five consecutive wins in the competition
After registering a deficit of R $ 287 million by 2024, and seeing the total debt amount rose to R $ 968.2 million, adopted a different posture on the market this season: betting on free players or at no cost for their hiring. This strategy makes the club not have to bear the type values to reinforce its cast this year. Calculation does not consider gloves and salaries offered with each new reinforcement. Since the end of last season, Sao Paulo has announced the arrival of (formerly Shanghai Port), Wendell (former Sport), Juan Dinenno (former Cruzeiro), Cédric Soares (formerly Arzenal) and Enzo Díaz (loaned by River Plate). In addition, former Sao Paulo and Atalanta has already performed medical examinations and is another athlete close to being announced by the tricolor team.
All other clubs in the series A had to bear at least one hiring this season. This is the case, which also suffers from a billionaire debt and was little reinforced for 2025. Cacá, who was loaned by Tokushima Vortis, was definitively bought earlier this year, for $ 24 million. Besides him, Hugo Souza was definitively acquired from Flamengo after loan period. In the field, São Paulo has been able to respond after the arrival of Hernán Crespo. In the Brazilian Championship, the club approached the fight for and adds five consecutive wins, while deciding in Morumbi, next week, the place of the quarterfinals of Libertadores against Atletico Nacional.
The only trip after the Club World Cup was eliminated against Athletico-PR for the Brazil Cup. The elimination, which was not foreseen by the club in the budget for this season, made Sao Paulo stop winning $ 4.7 million with the classification on Wednesdays. The strategy in the transfer market is further justified by this negative financial result. Sports goals are set in the club’s budget for a particular fiscal year. In general, they are less bold in relation to the real ambitions of the team for the season, but they serve to limit management spending in the year and, consequently, prevent money to bear money to bear reinforcements, debt, salary sheets, among other points.
For 2025, the management of established the same goals of the last year. Last season, however, the club only failed to reach the Paulista Championship final, as it was in the ‘cutting note’ of the other points in budget planning. Already in 2024, adding state and Brazil Cup, the loss already reaches the house of $ 6.2 million-the state runner-up would yield a bonus of $ 1.5 million to the coffers.
Early eliminations, however, do not only affect the value of awards. By failing to reach the decision of the Paulista Championship and the quarterfinals of the Brazilian Cup, the club no longer added an income for the box office in these two matches, which would be played in Morumbi. Last season, for example, São Paulo added R $ 2.8 million with the net income of the quarterfinals, against Atletico-MG.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Fernando Dias
