Money for Nothing - Richarlison Set For Huge Turkey Pay Day With Career In Dire Straits

Richarlison is Having His Salary Tripled… How the Fuck Has He Managed That?

The fallout from a wild transfer deadline still hasn’t tied itself up a full three days after the window slammed shut - remind me again why we love it so much?

With the Camara, Balogun, Chelsea and Everton shenanigans and the tug of war between Crystal Palace and Sunderland for Lyon’s Malick Fofana well and truly behind us now, the situation surrounding Tottenham’s Brazilian forward Richarlison still remains a hot topic, and more importantly, unresolved.

The striker has been relegated to Spurs’ U21’s squad after he failed to secure a move away from the North London club on deadline day, and yet somehow, he now looks set to join Trabzonspor, and even more remarkably, he is forecasted to earn three times his current paycheck. How on earth did this happen?

🚨🇹🇷 BREAKING: Richarlison has agreed to join Trabzonspor with salary agreed, x3 more than what he currently earns at Tottenham.

Spurs rejected two bids worth £15m and £20m; new proposal anticipated soon.

Trabzonspor want Richy as priority. 🤎🩵🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/iytk7smdpF

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) September 2, 2026

Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

Tottenham, it must be said, had an excellent transfer window, and in bringing in Man City duo Omar Marmoush and Savio, as well as Mykhaylo Mudryk on loan from Chelsea, Richarlison's spot in the starting XI quickly became an apparition - with Dominic Solanke and Mathys Tel also waiting in the wings, there was simply no room for the club's top goalscorer last season.

So Richarlison started looking for a move, and quickly his former club Everton enquired about their former man, a player who scored 53 goals in 152 games for the Toffee’s, and became fan favourite at Goodison Park for his feisty character and moments of brilliance.

The two clubs had even agreed a fee; however, despite the fact that he had in the past referred to David Moyes’s side as his “favourite club”, Richarlison declined the offer to return to the Merseyside outfit, and is in fact to blame for the whole Balogun/Camara saga.

Had he accepted the move, Monaco would have sold Camara to Chelsea and kept Balogun, and all parties would have been left happy. However, Richarlison’s refusal to move back north sparked the bizarre stand-off.

So Richarlison refused to go to what he even admitted was his ‘Favourite Club’ which potentially ruined #THFC’s deal for Ndiaye, which meant Everton then moved on to Balogun who failed his medical, so Monaco agreed to sell Camara to Chelsea instead, just for Balogun’s medical to… https://t.co/5E9n87lQl0 pic.twitter.com/U0Q89u4Wu3

— Hotspur Lane (@HotspurLane) September 2, 2026

The issue with his decision? No other English clubs came in for him on deadline day, meaning that the Brazilian either put up with training with a bunch of kids in the developmental squad, or secured a move abroad, leaving behind a league in which he has competed for the past nine years in the process.

Elsewhere in Europe, however, the transfer window remains open, and Turkish side Trabzonspor quickly took an interest in the wantaway striker. Now, the Turkish league is far from a Premier League player’s second choice in which to play, particularly for a player who, at 29, is supposed to be in the prime of his career, but Richarlison’s pickiness has left him with precious little in terms of choices, and now it seems like he has no alternative if he is to play some first team minutes this season.

High-Rolling

The upside? The Turkish club have offered the striker a contract package that will triple his current earnings - let’s be honest, it’s not a bad offer from a nation which plays in what many consider to be a “retirement league”.

Richarlison currently earns around £90,000 a week at Tottenham, still a very healthy wage in any context, but £270,000 just sounds a whole not nicer to a man who is looking to set his future generations up with all they need.

Trabzonspor have been making some serious moves during their transfer window, which ends tonight, having already brought in Mohamed Salah and Fabinko on free transfers, while also boasting the talents of well-known names such as Ozan Tufan, Andre Onana and gigantic centre-forward Paul Onuachu, bringing them back into contention for the Turkish league title, which in recent times has been dominated by a Victor Osimhen left Galatasaray.

The reported near £300,000 a week offer continues an increasingly notable trend of the turkish league actually having money to spend - alongside Osimhen, some of the league's star include Leroy Sane, Ilkay Gundogan, N’Golo Kangte and Romelu Lukaku, all of whom’s services come with a huge wage.

Since when did Turkey have this sort of money? I know that some owners are gambling huge amounts of money on goalkeepers to score penalties in bizarre feats of match-rigging, giving a nice little boost to the transfer budget in the process, but to offer Richarlison more money than Chelsea are paying captain Reece James seems a little… unhinged.

🇹🇷 The Turkish Süper Lig is quickly becoming a destination for some of the best players in the world. pic.twitter.com/4QqNapyKKq

— Speedline (@speedlne) September 3, 2026

The Brazilian is a competent centre forward without a doubt - the player has 119 club goals across his career, and 20 for the Brazilian national team - but despite top-scoring for Spurs last season with 12 goals, the 29-year-olds performances have quite rightly drawn more criticism than praise for Tottenham fans, no doubt in part because when he scores, it’s sods law that the opposition score immediately after. Never get your hopes up if Richarlison nets a late “winner”.

Yes, in the Turkish league, against a lower standard of defending and in an objectively less physical league, Richarlison could blossom, and rediscover the 20-goal per season striker that he used to be, but even if he finds that form again, the astronomical wage still likely won’t seem worth it.

Richarlison has, understandably, already accepted the wage package, not wanting to miss out on a generational pay day, but Tottenham are more stubborn when it comes to getting an offer that is too good to turn down.

Roberto De Zerbi’s side have already turned down two bids for the reserves-shackled forward, the latest of which numbered £20 million, and it looks like they are going to hold firm for bid in excess of £25 million if they are let their £60 million investment leave at a lost, a fee which would bring their total sales this window to about £210 million.

Richarlison just simply doesn’t look good enough for the Premier League anymore, making Tottenham’s desire to isolate and get rid of him somewhat understandable. However, Trabzonspor’s eye-watering contract offer boggles the mind. Have they actually watched him play? Do they know the late goal curse he is bringing with him?