Maccabi Tel Aviv are about to feel the benefit of a clause written into a deal from three years ago, with ONE reporting that former winger Parfait Guiagon is closing in on a big-money move from Belgium's Sporting Charleroi to Saudi Arabia's Al-Taawoun.
According to ONE, the transfer is worth in the region of $5 million, and Maccabi Tel Aviv stand to collect roughly $1 million of that themselves — the product of a 20% sell-on clause the Israeli club inserted when it sold Guiagon to Charleroi in August 2023 for about €1.5 million.
The move has also been picked up independently by Belgian outlets, with voetbalprimeur.be and walfoot.be reporting an agreement in principle between Charleroi, Al-Taawoun and the player, citing transfer insider Sacha Tavolieri and describing a three-year contract on offer in Saudi Arabia. Those reports confirm the shape of the deal, even if the exact fee and Maccabi's cut come from ONE alone.
Guiagon, 25, has already said his goodbyes in Belgium. "Dear fans, teammates and the club, I want to thank you for the support. Charleroi will always be in my heart," he wrote on Instagram, in comments carried by ONE.
The Ivorian's route to a Saudi payday ran through Israel. He arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv's academy from Africa Sports d'Abidjan, had loan spells with Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam and Maccabi Netanya, and signed a contract extension with the Yellow-and-Blue in 2022 before being sold to Charleroi the following year. ONE puts his tally at 43 appearances for Maccabi's senior side across his time in Tel Aviv.
At Charleroi he became one of the Jupiler Pro League's more productive wide players, contributing goals and assists in bulk over two full seasons before this transfer approached. That form has not gone unnoticed at international level either: Guiagon earned his senior Ivory Coast debut in June 2025 and was named in Emerse Faé's 26-man squad for the 2026 World Cup, a marker of how far his stock has risen since his days in Israeli football.
For Maccabi Tel Aviv, the sum involved is modest by the standards of the club's transfer business, but sell-on clauses of this kind have become a quiet, useful revenue stream for Israeli sides selling young talent onward — rewarding the development work done before a player's career takes off elsewhere.
Neither Charleroi nor Al-Taawoun has yet confirmed the transfer officially, and the precise fee has not been made public by either club, so the numbers currently rest on ONE's reporting and should be treated as such until the deal is formally announced.
