Alvaro Pereira's move from FC Porto to Chelsea looking unlikely says agent – Liga Sagres News
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 is looking unlikely according to the player’s agent, as the Blues have made an offer far less than his €30 million buyout clause.
Chelsea’s chase of Alvaro Pereira has been well-documented this summer. The London based side have been hot on the trail of the 25-year-old ever since the departure of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Yuri-Zhirkov-c37683 to Anzhi Makhachkala.
Pereira has himself insisted on a switch to Stamford Bridge, but the stumbling block is his €30 million transfer fee. The Uruguayan’s current employers. FC Porto are willing to do business with their English counterparts, but insist that for any chance of a swoop, the potential suitors will have to trigger his buyout clause.
With the Portistas refusing to comprise on their valuation of the defender, the negotiations have understandably come to a standstill, as Andre Villas-Boas is reluctant to fork out an exorbitant amount of cash for a player, who is untried in the rigours of the Premiership.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Álvaro-Pereira-c5297’s own agent, Alejandro Savich has lamented his client’s price-tag, citing that no one has ever coughed €30 million for a left-back, even in the current dire economic conditions.
"I do not remember in the history of football left-back a cost that price, on top of an economic environment like we live in and a player who has no EU passport.”
Savich then went onto say that the concluding the deal was in the hands of Antero Henry, although he had done everything in his power to ensure it was conducted quickly and thus cannot be blamed.
Lastly the representative compared Pereira’s situation to that of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809’s Luis Suarez, who was willing to move to Merseyside but his club, Ajax were not sanctioning the transfer. However Savich stressed that a player of Suarez’s calibre only set back the Reds by €26 million, a figure quite lower than that demanded by FC Porto.
"You know how is that Luis Suarez was Liverpool? 26million! It is ridiculous,” Alejandro Savich reiterated.
While the move seems to be off for now, Chelsea are likely to comeback with an improved proposal, as they do not have proper cover for first-choice left-back, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ashley-Cole-c6809.
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