Mohamed Salah joins Trabzonspor on €17M-a-season deal

Egyptian star to receive €10 million annual salary, €7 signing payment for each season

Turkish football club Trabzonspor confirmed on Thursday that it had signed Egyptian star Mohamed Salah on a deal guaranteeing him €17 million ($19.6 million) per season. Trabzonspor’s publicly listed football subsidiary announced the agreement in a filing submitted to Borsa Istanbul and published through Türkiye’s Public Disclosure Platform (KAP). Salah will receive an annual salary of €10 million and a signing payment of €7 million for each season. The forward will also be eligible for conditional bonuses during each season, although the club did not disclose the value or performance criteria attached to them. A separate image-rights agreement will give Salah a 20% share of proceeds from products bearing his name and sold through Trabzonspor’s retail company. The club will additionally pay an agency fee equivalent to 5% of the player’s gross remuneration. Trabzonspor announced earlier that it had opened transfer negotiations with Salah and shared a video showing him wearing the club’s claret-and-blue No. 61 shirt aboard a plane. “Trabzon, are you ready? I can hear you. See you very soon. Everywhere is Trabzon,” Salah said in the video, using a popular slogan associated with the Black Sea club. The agreement completes one of the most high-profile transfers in the history of the Turkish Super Lig.