According to all transfer window specialists, whether from France or elsewhere, the transfer is complete. Everyone mentions it as such, indicating that the player is expected this Monday in the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône, to sign a contract for the next 18 months. Luiz Felipe is therefore already considered an Olympique de Marseille player, but the great football book is filled with enough stories of about-faces or other disillusionments, not to get too excited about the finish. of the Italian-Brazilian central defender.
Luiz Felipe at OM, it’s as if it was done
A question will also be that of his salary with the Marseille club. Because Luiz Felipe previously played at the Al-Ittihad club in Saudi Arabia, in a country where player contracts are stimulated by petro-dollars. If OM has the advantage of being able to recruit the 27-year-old defender free on this transfer market, since Felipe and Al-Ittihad recently mutually agreed to separate; often injured, the player having only one appearance this season in the collective of Beenzema, Kanté or other Moussa Diaby, for the French who frequent him.
A salary of €6 million net per season with Al-Ittihad
To hire him, Al-Ittihad had paid compensation of 22 million euros, plus 3 million bonuses, paid to Betis in Spain, a few days before the fall of 2023. Luiz Felipe on this occasion, signed a contract over three years, until 2026, which earned him the equivalent of 6 million euros per year. But here expressed net of charges and taxes. It was around three and a half times more than he received with Betis and seven and a half times his previous salary with Lazio in Italy.
France
Soccer
