Overview
- Both clubs confirmed the transfer Sunday, with Galatasaray saying it paid a €38 million fixed fee and signed Leão to a four-year contract.
- Galatasaray disclosed the contract pays Leão €10 million per year and includes performance-linked bonus structures described by the club.
- The deal gives AC Milan 20% of the profit on any future sale and triggers solidarity payments to Leão’s formative clubs, with Sporting due about €1.14 million and Lille roughly €190,000.
- Some media outlets reported higher totals for fee and salary, with one Italian report valuing the move at about €45 million and a €12 million annual wage, creating a gap between club disclosures and other press figures.
- Leão has arrived in Istanbul and will join Victor Osimhen and Leroy Sané in Galatasaray’s forward line, closing a seven-season spell at Milan that included a peak in the 2021–22 title campaign and later form and injury issues that helped prompt the move.