The Goodison board puts in a £25.7 million all-in bid for Vitor Roque, blowing Everton out of the water
Sporting CP look set to outbid Everton in a move to sign Barcelona forward Vitor Roque, according to Que Deportes.
The Spanish news outlet reported on 15 August that Everton’s board have made an offer totalling £25.7million for the 19-year-old Brazilian with £21.4million of it to be paid up front with the rest made up in add-ons.
However, it is understood that Sporting CP “will try to move heaven and earth” to sign Roque and are now set to offer more.
Barca reportedly want up to £30million to sell the former Athletico-PR winger, who only joined the La Liga side last year.
Everton set to miss out on Vitor Roque
It makes a lot of sense for Everton to try to sign Roque.
He’s a young attacker who’s probably got a lot of re-sale value that could really help the club’s financial position going forward.
However, Kevin Thelwell is unlikely to have a lot of funds left to buy Roque before the 30 August deadline and offering what Barcelona want for the winger is likely to be unachievable.
But it is encouraging to see the Blues going after players like Roque. It’s not every day you see a talented Brazilian teenager who’s playing for Barcelona getting linked with a move to the blue half of Merseyside.
Everton’s summer has been a rather successful one.
ere, a bunch of new signings have been made and the PSR position is looking quite healthy thanks to the big-money sales of Lewis Dobbin, Amadou Onana and Ben Godfrey adding up to around £71million.
Sean Dyche is a great manager and we’d imagine that there’ll be a big improvement upon last season.
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