Alverca could enter the top-4 biggest sales in Portuguese football without the “big four”

Bastien Meupiyou could be about to become Alverca’s biggest ever sale and one of the most expensive sales of all time in Portuguese football, if we exclude Porto, Benfica, Sporting and Braga.

The Ribatejo SAD will be analyzing a proposal from the Borussia Dortmund by the French central, worth 12 million euros, which could reach 17 million if certain objectives are met, according to .

The deal is not yet closed and the German proposal was not accepted, especially because there will be other clubs interested in the 20-year-old defender. But, if confirmed, the transfer would represent a historical fit for the Ribatejo club.

Wolverhampton, the club from which Alverca signed Meupiyou last summer, holds 50% of the player’s pass. Last season, the French defender established himself as one of the team’s figures, with 32 games played in Alverca’s return to the Primeira Liga.

If the sale is confirmed, Meupiyou will surpass the club’s previous record, set in January, when Alex Amorim left for Genoa in exchange for eight million euros. Meupiyou would be like this 4th best-selling player by a Portuguese league club, if we exclude from the equation the big three and the “big fourth” of recent years, SC Braga, which is also starting to get used to big sales.

With an immediate transfer of 12 million euros that could reach 17 million, the young central defender’s transfer to Dortmund would be only behind that of Shoya Nakajima (Portimonense – Al-Duhail, 35ME), Pablo Felipe (Gil Vicente – West Ham, around 20ME) and Edmond Tapsoba (Vitória SC – Bayer Leverkusen, 20.2ME). This, of course, excluding sales of the four big ones in Portugal.

Meupiyou would push FC Porto’s current right-back, Alberto Costato fifth place on this list, as the Portuguese full-back went to Juventus for 12.5ME + 2.5ME in goals — the second biggest sale in the history of the Guimarães emblem. The transfer of Rafa Mujica from Arouca to Al-Sadd — 10ME plus bonus of 2.5ME dependent on the Spaniard’s performance.

Counting Braga, the story is very different

After the historic sale of Nakajima from Portimonense, it is the Minho team who break records without the big three involved.

This decade have already been sold Roger Fernandesto Al-Ittihad, for a record amount of 32 million euros plus 2.5 in goals, but also Vitinha (Marseille, 32ME), Trincao (Barcelona 30.9ME), Rodrigo GomesWolves, 15ME), Alvaro Djaló (Athletic Bilbao, 15ME + 5,5ME).

Still according to data from Transfrmarkt, all these transfers finally broke Braga’s sales record, which had been maintained since 2012 with the sale of the recently retired Lace to Atlético Madrid, for 13.5ME.