A closed contract, an agreement to be sealed, another round of negotiations for what has always been the main objective of the market this summer. Sporting leaves on Sunday for a ten-day concentration in the Algarve, where they will play private matches with Saint-Gilloise (13th), Villarreal (14th), Roma (19th) and Portimonense (20th), but will arrive with a much more composed squad for the works of Rúben Amorim. So much so that, having overcome the last barriers that are being tackled with those responsible for Francisco Trincão’s Barcelona, with Jorge Mendes as intermediary, the group is “practically” closed.
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For now, two unofficial processes are about to conclude. Rochinha, attacking midfielder for V. Guimarães, will travel to Lisbon for the usual medical examinations after the agreement reached by the lions with Minho, who will receive two million euros for 100% of the pass but they keep 10% of added value in a transfer of the 27-year-old player who went through FC Porto and Benfica in training.
The one who is already in Alcochete is Franco Israel, a 22-year-old Uruguayan goalkeeper who is an international youth squad and who has been in Juventus’ Primavera since 2020, when he arrived from Nacional for 2.2 million euros. After weeks of negotiations with the group bianconerithe green and white SAD assured the signing of the South American obtaining 60% of the pass for 650 thousand euros. After the departure of João Virgínia, who was ending his loan from Everton but had a release clause of five million, Sporting managed to close another of their priorities, uniting Israel with the starters Adán and André Paulo, with the young Diego Callai, 17 years old. It is a strong bet for the club.
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The goalkeeper was already in Alcochete this Monday (the agent himself published an image on social networks at the Academy facilities), carried out medical examinations and tomorrow he will have the first training session, bearing in mind that Rúben Amorim gave the squad a day off after the two one-hour private matches behind closed doors against Casa Pia (1-1) and Vilafranquense (1-0). The “stoppage” will serve so that all internationals who join later, after the commitments of the respective teams after the end of the season at club level, undergo medical examinations: Coates and Ugarte (Uruguay), Matheus Nunes ( Portugal), Gonçalo Inácio (Under-21 National Team) and Jovane Cabral (Cape Verde). João Palhinha, the other released international, already works with the new team, Fulham.
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with all this, Francis Trincao became (even more) the priority of the Verdiblanco referees, in what was always Sporting’s main objective but which would certainly involve more time in the negotiations with Barcelona, with Jorge Mendes, the player’s agent, as an intermediary. At this point, after surveys and specific offers that were being rejected by the Catalans, there is greater proximity between the parties for an agreement that, although it may start with a transfer, will have a mandatory purchase option closer to 20 million. of euros allocated by the group coolie. The newspaper Sport assures that this understanding is closer, to the Observer some sources linked to the process only assure that the international wants to come to Alvalade and that his salary falls within what the club has as a limit. At the moment, the left-back works in Xavi Hernández’s squad.
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There is still a scenario that seems increasingly clear: confirming the threshold of 20 million, albeit in installments, Francisco Trincão could become the most expensive signing in the history of the Alvalade club, surpassing the purchase of Paulinho from sp. Braga in January 2021… if there is no proposal made by the striker. In the agreement reached with Minho, in addition to the 16 million for 70% of the pass, the definitive transfer of Borja (valued at three million) and the transfer of Sporar, it was also defined that, in the event of a formal offer of EUR 25 million or more for the striker who is rejected, Sporting will still have to pay 7.5 million euros to Braga for the remaining 30% of the pass, which would raise the final amount paid to a barrier higher than that which will be invested in Trincão. However, and since he arrived at the club, Paulinho has not received any offer.
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If the situation of the 22-year-old is resolved, as everything indicates at this point, Sporting will maintain its Squad “practically” closed with the exits of João Virgínia, Feddal, Palhinha and Slimani to be occupied by Franco Israel, St. Juste, Morita, Rochinha and Trincao. Even so, there are two possibilities of more changes that are not left aside: the sale of another player, with Matheus Nunes in the lead after the approach made by Wolverhampton that did not materialize in a specific offer of 45 million fixed plus five million . variable, which would lead to one more contract; or a “business opportunity”, looking mainly forward from midfield despite very positive indications that younger players have left, including Ghana international Fatawu.
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Source: Observadora
