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Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2
Hey Icy, I'm curious about how often Atletico and Real do business. How upset would Atletico fans get if they sell their star player to their major rivals? All other factors relatively even, wouldn't they be better served to sell Aguero to any other team?
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Atletico has stated that they won't ever sell Aguero to R.Madrid as the fans wouldn't ever accept it. But in Spain players have a release clause, so R.Madrid can pay it (45Million Euros) and the player is free to sign with them.
But...R.Madrid president has a honor pact with Atletico one about never using that clause against each other so... it's all about if R.Madrid will honor that pact or not.
Also related to that release clause there are some issues too and lawyers are discussing about it in the news. It's a bit complex but i'll try to explain:
The release clause is always paid by teams but the written law says that as it's the player who is paying to void his contract, it must be the player who pays that clause, not the buying team. In that case, R.Madrid can give the 45M to Aguero and he pays it but... it'¡s not that easy. If R.Madrid gives 45M to Aguero, it's like a salary, so Aguero needs to pay taxes over it. So to get 45M to pay Atletico, Aguero would need to receive from Madrid like 70M, that is way over his price.
Atletico has said that if Aguero comes with 45M to void his contract and signs with R.Madrid, they will denounce him to the tax authorities to make sure that R.Madrid didn't give that to him without paying the taxes.
So yes, there is a big war over it. Atletico doesn't want Aguero to come back as he is already hated by the fans for saying he wanted to leave, but on the other hand, they don't want to sell him to R.Madrid. The problem is that there aren't a lot of teams who can pay 45M for him besides R.Madrid, Chelsea, Juve, etc. Fans wouldn't probably accept either that Aguero is sold for less than 45M as R.Madrid is offering it already so... really complex and nobody really knows what will happen.