Posted on May 05, 2025 at 21:22. / Modified on May 05, 2025 at 21:30.
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The transfer of a football player between two clubs is many happy. In the summer of 2023, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) sold its Franco-Sénégalese defender Abdou Diallo to Al-Arabi SC. If the press mentioned at the time a transaction of 15 million euros, the Qatari club in reality only paid 8.1 million euros, according to FIFA documents consulted by Time. In addition to this compensation, Al-Arabi paid a total of 421,000 euros in solidarity contribution to six other clubs than PSG.
Introduced by FIFA in 2001, the principle of the solidarity contribution is simple: as soon as a player is transferred from one country to another, 5% of the amount of the transfer is divided between the clubs where the player was dismissed from his 12 years to his 23 years, and which we consider his training clubs. For Abdou Diallo, it is the FC towers, the US Chambray-lès-Tours, AS Monaco, Borussia Dortmund, PSG, FSV Mayence and Zulte Waregem, who shared the 421,000 euros according to a calculation established by FIFA: 5% of the 5% per year of license for clubs where Abdou Diallo evolved between his 12 and 15 years, 5% for teams aged 15 to 23.
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