OFFICIAL: Bojan to Roma...

Bojan Krkic è un nuovo giocatore della Roma. Il Barcellona ha confermato con un comunicato pubblicato sul sito ufficiale che l'attaccante spagnolo si trasferisce in Italia a fronte del pagamento di 12 milioni di euro. In realtà per Bojan non arriva alla Roma a titolo definitivo ma con una formula molto particolare, che sembra quasi 'camuffare' un prestito biennale.

Il Barcellona infatti, come specificato nel comunicato, si è assicurato il diritto di riscattare il giocatore al termine della stagione 2012/2013 per 13 milioni di euro, con la Roma che potrà bloccare il riacquisto dell'attaccante versando nelle casse blaugrana altri 28 milioni di euro, per un investimento totale di 40 milioni di euro.

Meglio farà il giocatore con la maglia della Roma, più difficile sarà per i giallorossi trattenerlo oltre il 2013. Bojan, il cui addio, come era previsto, è arrivato subito dopo l'acquisto da parte del Barcellona di Alexis Sanchez, terrà una conferenza stampa nella sala Ricard Maxenchs del Camp Nou per salutare i tifosi

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Apparently you've signed Bojan, for a total of 12 million. However, in 2013 Barca will have the right to re-sign him for 13million, in which case the only way you will be able to keep him if they do take up that option will be to pay Barca a further 28million, thereby making the total transfer fee to accumulate to a total of 40 MILLION!

As a Serie A and football fan in general, this is absolutely outrageous and immoral on Barcelona's behalf, by first placing a buy-back clause of only 1 million extra and secondly by ensuring you will have to pay a further 28 Million to keep the player whom you had already bought 2 years prior. This shows a complete lack of respect to Roma and is certain to leave a bitter sweet taste in many Romanisti (as it would to any recieving club)

EDIT: It its apparently the obligation to take up the buy back clause rather than the right

Unless he outscores all of Italy's best strikers, I don't see us fighting Barca on his clause. He'd need to have an absolute blinder of a season in order for us to shell out that kinda money for him. Only time well tell if he can do that for us.

The upside to this is if he has an average to poor season, Barca probably won't take up the option to buy him back which means we would be free to extend his contract and free ourselves of that clause, being that it's only for the 12-13 season.

That's really annoying. I think we shouldn't consider him as a roma player yet. If he scores 15-20 goals this season he will be gone most probably as he as Barca in his heart ... He is just using Roma as the stepping stone... Poor business from Sabatini

McLewis wrote:Unless he outscores all of Italy's best strikers, I don't see us fighting Barca on his clause. He'd need to have an absolute blinder of a season in order for us to shell out that kinda money for him. Only time well tell if he can do that for us.

The upside to this is if he has an average to poor season, Barca probably won't take up the option to buy him back which means we would be free to extend his contract and free ourselves of that clause, being that it's only for the 12-13 season.

Mate, the buy back is obligatory its basically a glorified loan.

Immaculate_Mole wrote:

McLewis wrote:Unless he outscores all of Italy's best strikers, I don't see us fighting Barca on his clause. He'd need to have an absolute blinder of a season in order for us to shell out that kinda money for him. Only time well tell if he can do that for us.

The upside to this is if he has an average to poor season, Barca probably won't take up the option to buy him back which means we would be free to extend his contract and free ourselves of that clause, being that it's only for the 12-13 season.

Mate, the buy back is obligatory its basically a glorified loan.

Well the verbiage in the the articles say that Barca have the right to sign him back. It does not mean we are obligated to send him back there, hence the huge clause they inserted in there. If they wanted a loan, I'm sure they would've just said so and we would've went with it. The most interesting thing about it is that it's only for the 12-13 season. It says nothing about seasons beyond that so like I said, if he has a stinker with us. We could either sell him and cut our losses or show faith them and tie him to an improved contract. Either way, I don't see Barca taking him back if he has a poor season with us, which means they won't activate their right in that clause.

McLewis wrote:

Immaculate_Mole wrote:

McLewis wrote:Unless he outscores all of Italy's best strikers, I don't see us fighting Barca on his clause. He'd need to have an absolute blinder of a season in order for us to shell out that kinda money for him. Only time well tell if he can do that for us.

The upside to this is if he has an average to poor season, Barca probably won't take up the option to buy him back which means we would be free to extend his contract and free ourselves of that clause, being that it's only for the 12-13 season.

Mate, the buy back is obligatory its basically a glorified loan.

Well the verbiage in the the articles say that Barca have the right to sign him back. It does not mean we are obligated to send him back there, hence the huge clause they inserted in there. If they wanted a loan, I'm sure they would've just said so and we would've went with it. The most interesting thing about it is that it's only for the 12-13 season. It says nothing about seasons beyond that so like I said, if he has a stinker with us. We could either sell him and cut our losses or show faith them and tie him to an improved contract. Either way, I don't see Barca taking him back if he has a poor season with us, which means they won't activate their right in that clause.

I only know what the barca official site said

The Italian outfit will pay 12 million for the player and the agreement includes an obligatory repurchase clause to be exercised by FC Barcelona at the end of the 2012/13 season, for a cost of 13 million.

This purchase can be blocked by AS Roma, but in such a case the overall cost of the transfer will rise to 40 million euros.

So imo it seems like a glorified loan and Barca are desperate to sign Fabregas so selling Bojan for 2 season's will help them do that.

How i interpreted it anyway.

All right, my bad. It's obligatory.

Still....if Bojan stinks it up in two seasons....they're not going to push us on this. I'm not at all worried about it in all honesty.

what happens if no parties wants him...e.g. he turns out a huge flop, and roma doesn't want him, neither will barca?

I waited a little bit before commenting on this in order to get understand all the details of the transfer. Wow is all I could say. 12 million now and a further 28 million if we want to keep him, that is disgustingly high for young player who still has lots to prove. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited that Bojan is going to join us, but for that price, I'm very disappointed. There is no way in hell that we are going to dish out another 28 million on him next year no matter how well he does this season. We're probably going to try to re-negotiate that figure and we'll surely be in for another Borriello-like saga but much worse. I think we'll only have Bojan for this season and he'll be back off to Barca next year... extremely disappointed by how this transfer turned out. First Barcelona held up the transfer because they couldn't come to an agreement with Udinese (so they wasted a lot of time which Bojan could have used to adapt to into life with Roma, even though we knew that Bojan was gunna join us no matter what happened with the Sanchez transfer) and they slapped on a crap buy-back clause with a huge option to buy clause for us. Quite disgusted...

ErPupone wrote:I waited a little bit before commenting on this in order to get understand all the details of the transfer. Wow is all I could say. 12 million now and a further 28 million if we want to keep him, that is disgustingly high for young player who still has lots to prove. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited that Bojan is going to join us, but for that price, I'm very disappointed. There is no way in hell that we are going to dish out another 28 million on him next year no matter how well he does this season. We're probably going to try to re-negotiate that figure and we'll surely be in for another Borriello-like saga but much worse. I think we'll only have Bojan for this season and he'll be back off to Barca next year... extremely disappointed by how this transfer turned out. First Barcelona held up the transfer because they couldn't come to an agreement with Udinese (so they wasted a lot of time which Bojan could have used to adapt to into life with Roma, even though we knew that Bojan was gunna join us no matter what happened with the Sanchez transfer) and they slapped on a crap buy-back clause with a huge option to buy clause for us. Quite disgusted...

Bah, who would of figured an owner with no knowledge on football...

to much for Bojan ...with those money you can get beast

What happens if barca are unwilling go take him back for 13m and Roma don't want him either ? Doesn't make sense does it?

^ from the looks of it, Barca will be forced to take him back no matter of they want to or not.

ErPupone wrote:^ from the looks of it, Barca will be forced to take him back no matter of they want to or not.

At the end of the day guys, you get a promising player for 2 years. Please have faith in him because he's a great player and will hopefully perform really well for you. Don't be surprised if he scores 30+ goals in this period.

Let's see it from another view:

we get Bojan, he helps Roma scoring goals winning the Serie A, the Copa Italia and Europa League title next season. the season after, he scores many important goals helping ROma again to another Serie A title and Copa Italia, and Roma even wins CHampions League. Barca pay Roma 13 million.

in this scenerio Roma would be the winners of this deal, r <tleast not losers? (lol i know its highly unlikely but this is football)

The BoyWonder wrote:Let's see it from another view:

we get Bojan, he helps Roma scoring goals winning the Serie A, the Copa Italia and Europa League title next season. the season after, he scores many important goals helping ROma again to another Serie A title and Copa Italia, and Roma even wins CHampions League. Barca pay Roma 13 million.

in this scenerio Roma would be the winners of this deal, r <tleast not losers? (lol i know its highly unlikely but this is football)

Serious ?

You'r saying like if Bojan was Messi.

Saturday 23 July, 2011
Roma reveal Bojan details



Roma have revealed the financial details of the Bojan Krkic deal, including the fact Barcelona can buy him back for €17m in 2012.

Initial reports of the move surprised many and the statement released by the Giallorossi this afternoon brought further clarity.


“A.S. Roma S.p.A. announce a contract with Barcelona to buy player Bojan Krkic Perez for €12m, to be paid before July 1 2013.


“As part of this agreement, Barcelona have an exclusive option to buy back the player at a cost of €17m in 2011-12 or €13m in 2012-13, to be paid in two instalments on January 31 and May 31 2014.


“This option to buy back is mandatory for Barcelona for the second season, but includes a counter-option for Roma to maintain rights to his sporting performances.


“Roma’s option is to be taken up by June 20 2013 for another €28m to be paid in three instalments on July 1 2013, January 31 2014 and July 31 2014.


“As for the player, he has agreed a four-year contract which expires on June 30 2015 worth €3.2m for 2011-12 and 2012-13, then €6.3m from 2013-14 to 2014-15, in addition to individual performance-related bonuses.”


It seems this statement actually means that Bojan will receive a total of €3.2m wages over the two campaigns, so €1.6m per season.


If Roma make the move permanent, he’ll double his wages to €3.15m per season.

del_boy wrote:

The BoyWonder wrote:Let's see it from another view:

we get Bojan, he helps Roma scoring goals winning the Serie A, the Copa Italia and Europa League title next season. the season after, he scores many important goals helping ROma again to another Serie A title and Copa Italia, and Roma even wins CHampions League. Barca pay Roma 13 million.

in this scenerio Roma would be the winners of this deal, r <tleast not losers? (lol i know its highly unlikely but this is football)

Serious ?

You'r saying like if Bojan was Messi.

no i am not saying messi alone wins trophies 4 barca, does he? (y not argentina den?)

what i am talkin is if bojan proves to be much better than 28m euro in the next 2 years and roma ends up winning a lot of trophies. it could happpen then it would not be such a bad deal 4 roma

I honestly cannot comprehend the terms.

Can anyone tell me in layman's terms ?

We pay 12m now for him and in 2 years time, Barca can buy him back for 13m....if we want to block their purchase of him, we have to pay 28m to keep him.

I want him to explode the years being with Roma, scoring like 30+ goals per season, prove all the doubters wrong .He will be a very important player for us, in any case I still want Vucinic to stay, he suits so much the Luis E. style.It will be Vucinic-Totti-Bojan, the last one is much more versatile and could acomodate to any place in the attack.

Roma's attack is going to be scary good