Kubo is already in Donostia

Takefusa Kubo (Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 2001) is already in Donostia and will become a Real Sociedad player in the next few hours and the third signing of the summer for the txuri urdin squad. Although the agreement with Real Madrid was a fact last Thursday and with the player it comes from further back, the trip has been delayed a few days due to the strange fever that he has suffered. He has tested negative in the successive covid-19 tests to which he has undergone, so he has already been able to take this Madrid-Hondarribia flight. Txuri Urdin football director was waiting for him at the Gipuzkoa airport Roberto Olabe. The attacker will undergo a medical examination tomorrow morning and it is expected that on Tuesday he will also sign his contract for five seasons, until 2027, with Real Sociedad. The presentation will take place later at the Miramar Palace in Donostia in an act that will be open and the idea is that the footballer exercises for the first time with his new team on Wednesday the 20th. It is very unlikely that he can make his debut on Saturday the 23rd against Borussia Monchengaldbach.

6 million and Madrid keeps 50% of the capital gain

MD already reported exclusively on Saturday the conditions of the transfer: the Real in the end pays six million euros for Kubo to a Real Madrid that reserves 50% of the capital gain of a future transfer. That is, if Real sells him for 30 next year, the white club would receive half of 24 million, that is, 12. In addition, the white entity has preferential rights for the player, so it would be enough to match the offer economical of a third party to take the Japanese.

The termination clause of Kubo amounts to 60 million euros, the same as that of Momo Cho, Brais and the six recently renewed homegrown players. Aperribay y Olabe They negotiated with Real Madrid for the player last Thursday until the operation was unblocked. The 21-year-old Japanese was already convinced of coming to Anoeta from before, despite the fact that other First Division teams such as Osasuna and Valladolid, among others, had been interested in him. The Real already sounded out the signing of him in the two previous summers, but in the end they decided on other footballers.

Non-EU citizen

Kubo has Japanese nationality and, despite the fact that he was at Barcelona from 10 to 14 years old and has already been in Spain for four years since Real Madrid signed him, he does not have Spanish nationality, so he occupies a non-EU position. He does not represent any problem in the Real because he will be the only one, since the Australian Mother Ryan He has British nationality. In Madrid, the quota was covered with the Brazilians Military, vinicius y Rodrygo Goes.