Zaragoza block Saidu’s exit: no deal with Goztepe or Mallorca

Real Zaragoza have informed Yussif Saidu that he will not be leaving this summer. As Sport reports, the club had been working on a possible exit for weeks, but the two main routes—talks with Goztepe and a potential move with Mallorca—failed to reach agreement.

Two loan deals, one dead end

Both proposals were structured as loans. For Goztepe, the offer included a loan fee of around €500,000 and an option to buy Saidu for €3.5 million, with Zaragoza keeping 30% of the player’s registration fee if the purchase was triggered. Mallorca, meanwhile, was expected to submit an offer with similarly scaled terms.

Zaragoza—led in the negotiations by Guido Baroli, the club’s new-ownership director—asked for several changes: the purchase obligation should be tied to fewer matches (15 instead of 20), payments would need to be adjusted if the loan was converted, and the future percentage owed to the Dansoman Wise would drop from 25% to 15%. Goztepe improved its numbers in the final days, but did not meet all of Zaragoza’s conditions.

Deal effectively broken

According to Sport, Zaragoza’s decision reached the Turkish club this Monday, and Saidu’s camp considered that path over as well as Mallorca’s. The player remains under contract with Zaragoza until 2030, and while Turkey’s window runs slightly later than Spain’s, the article states the operation is now off the table.