Two summers ago, Sarpsborg player Bonsu Baah was sold to Genk for around 5 million euros. This week, the Belgian club cashes in 15 million euros on the same player. We have stopped being surprised by the world of football, which seems disconnected from the rest of the world. So when there are reports of a transfer where the sale price increases 40 times in one year, it falls into the series of sensational transfers that have become part of everyday life out there in European top football.
Last summer, Rapid Vienna signed Swede Isak Jansson for €250,000 from Spanish side Cartagena. 45 games later with 10 goals and 7 assists, the 23-year-old is set to move on.
READ: Solskjaer calls in Christian Eriksen
On Tuesday, Rapid Wien’s sporting director Markus Katzer confirmed that the club is demanding a club-record sum to sell the Swede this summer.
Rapid Wien announced on Wednesday that Jansson has been given permission to leave the club’s training camp to complete the transfer.
According to the media, Rapid receives ten million euros, which makes Jansson Rapid’s largest gambling sale ever. Ratcliffe is really struggling with his finances at Manchester United, but seems to have got Nice more in place. Last season finished in 4th place in Ligue 1, so maybe it’s within the realm of paying around “40 times” for a player after a season in the Austrian league?
