Recently, Arsenal signed Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyökeres for €76.02 million, with EFL Championship side Coventry set to receive a €5.2 million share of the transfer fee.
Sporting CP signed Gyökeres from Coventry in the summer of 2023, with a fixed transfer fee of €20 million plus €4 million in variable bonuses (which have been met). At the time, the contract stipulated that Coventry retained a 15% share of any future transfer value increase.
In July 2024, Sporting CP paid an additional €3 million. Of this amount, €2 million was compensation for meeting targets (not part of the initial variable clauses), and €1 million was a fee for exercising a contract option, which reduced the share percentage to 10% – this is exactly the percentage Coventry is entitled to in this transfer.
Thus, the calculation of Coventry's earnings is as follows: Sporting CP signed Gyökeres for €24 million and have now sold him to Arsenal for €76 million (specifically €76.02 million), resulting in a transfer value increase of €52 million. 10% of this, i.e., €5.2 million, is the share Coventry is currently entitled to.
It is understood that Gyökeres' agent team voluntarily waived the originally agreed €7.5 million commission.
