Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Barcelona will make tomorrow a new offer for São Paulo attacking midfielder and Brazilian international Hernanes (23).
After a first offer of 11 million euro° was rejected by São Paulo, who said to be only willing to talk about the buyout fee of 25 million euro° (read more here), Barcelona would now launch a second bid of 15 million euro°, hoping to wrap up the deal in the end for a fee of 17-18 million euro°.
The paper thinks that all parties involved could reach an agreement this time and that Hernanes, whose contract with São Paulo expires in 2012, could be a Barcelona player in the coming days.
Brazilian sports paper Lance says that São Paulo has been upset about the whole transfer because the club thinks that sports marketing agency Traffic, who ownes 8 per cent of the rights on the player (with the club holding 75 per cent and the rest belonging to the player) has been trying to push the deal through (read more here).
São Paulo sports director Marco Aurélio Cunha says that ten days ago an agent contacted the club wanting to inform them about the 11 million euro° offer made by Barcelona: "We didn't listen to it. Since when does Barcelona needs intermediaries to show that they are interested in a player of São Paulo? We want to negotiate face to face."
The paper claims that a transfer of Hernanes is now nevertheless close with an official proposal by Barcelona expected to arrive soon.
Read more:
Sao Paulo holding on to Hernanes buyout fee
Hleb option falls back
Hernanes is not a priority
Monday, 30 June 2008
New offer for Hernanes coming up
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11 million euro =
17 million us dollar
9 million british pound
25 million euro =
39 million us dollar
20 million british pound
15 million euro =
23 million us dollar
12 million british pound
17-18 million euro =
25-27 million us dollar
13-14 million british pound
So are we planning to sign the trio of Hernanes, Hleb, and Arshavin? Surely one of these players would have to be left out. The odd man out for me would have to be Hleb simply because he is the oldest and Arshavin can do everything he can do plus score goals.
My guess is that we are keeping balls in the air in case somebody gets stupid. Zenit is making jokes by offering Arshavin+20 million for Messi, and Arsenal are being difficult about Hleb. Throw David Silva into the mix and you can see that we aren't serious about all of them.
Even if they sign Hernanes he's certainly not going to be in their first team plans. It's going to take him time to get acclimated to the system, so I don't forsee him as part of any first team plans other than seeing spot action in some of the recopas.
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