Sevilla’s new signing Sergio Ramos is indeed heading to Türkiye, as was reported in the final days of the transfer market.
Former Besiktas vice president Serhan Cetinsaya, who resigned, held a press conference on the issue.
Ramos, 37, returned to Sevilla after the transfer window closed, following a surprise call from sporting director Victor Orta.
During the summer, Sevilla publicly insisted they would not sign Ramos but eventually recruited him.
It is believed he will earn a total salary of around 2 million euros per year.
However, Cetinsaya told Diario AS that he has more attractive offers elsewhere.
“We worked hard to complete the transfer of Ramos.
We had a deal but it didn’t happen.
As a Besiktas fan, I’d love to see it.
We negotiated for 18 or 19 days.
Money is secondary.
Ramos received another offer worth 27 million euros but he didn’t even think about it.
Real Madrid icon Guti, whoeshares the dressing room with Ramos, also helped explain what it’s like to play for Besiktas.
Guti spent one season in Istanbul after leaving Real Madrid in 2010 before retiring.
“Guti spoke to Ramos on our behalf.
That’s a special reference.
On the afternoon of Monday, August 21, we received a response “Congratulations to Besiktas” on the transfer.
Ramos gave us the green light.
We even talked about his agent’s bonus.
We prepared the contracts through our lawyers and submitted them.
They invited us to their home in Madrid to complete the remaining procedures and bring Ramos to Türkiye.
We discussed at length how much we would pay if he scored more than 25 goals.
He asked for a large amount of money because he thought he would score 25 goals.
Ramos is nothing short of ambitious in his forays, but that might be overkill even for him.
The details of Cetinsaya’s account of events suggest that the negotiations certainly progressed.
“Six clubs compete for Sergio Ramos.
Galatasaray is one of them.
When we started negotiations, he couldn’t sign for a team that didn’t play in the Champions League, but we convinced him.
Although Sergio Ramos wanted a two-year contract, we agreed on a 1+1 contract.
At the end of the first year, we have the right to unilaterally terminate the contract.
We promised him 4 million euros, 1 million euros for a signature and 6 million euros would be paid by the sponsor in exchange for recording an advertisement.:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/C5ZL6L46RBCFZEIZP67TNYOGZE.jpg)
Considering the possibility of not being able to find a sponsor, the president was skeptical about this 6 million euro amount and we withdrew from the transfer according to the president’s decision.
However, Ramos seemed genuinely emotional upon his return to Seville, breaking down in tears as he spoke about his grandfather.
While some extremists have yet to forgive him for the past rivalry when he was at Real Madrid, 23,000 fans turned out to watch Ramos, showing that there was also strong support for the deal This.