How Victor Lindelof’s £35m move to Manchester United saved his former Swedish minnow club from bankruptcy
Part-time side Vasteras were recently on the brink of extinction, but the 23-year-old's move to Old Trafford provided them with a lifeline
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VICTOR LINDELOF'S £30m move came at the perfect time for his former club Vasteras, who received a large financial windfall following his transfer to Manchester United.
The third-tier Swedish side inserted a sell-on clause when they sold the defender to Benfica for just over £250,000 in 2011.
Lindelof's former club were on the brink of bankruptcy before the transfer, but the cash received from the Manchester United deal has solved most of their issues.
As part of the clause, Vasteras would receive 20 percent of any future transfer fee for the in-demand 28-year-old.
The Swedish club is believed to have received £3.6m as part of the deal, according to The Mirror.
When Lindelof moved to Benfica, his former club received three tranches of £876,000 - the first being a transfer fee.
The next was when he played his third under-21 match for Sweden, followed by the third which was when he played 10 senior games for the Portugal international side.
Had the original contract remained they would have received seven million of the 35 million euros that the Premier League giants paid, but the Swedish club had to settle for less.
Following negotiations between Benfica and Vasteras, the part-time club agreed to slash their 20 per cent demand in half.
Vasteras chairwoman Christina Liffner told Reuters: "It's a safety net. Now I don't have to lie there sleepless the day before the wages are paid.
"In the end we negotiated a new contract and there is a confidentiality clause in it, but everyone understands that we had to go down a bit.
"We are definitely not going to go out and speculate, but if we got one percent (interest) or even a half, on a considerable sum of money, that's still more money," she said.
