Chelsea in Brazil to pay €60m release clause for 16-year-old winger amid 'very serious' interest
Chelsea are planned to reimbursement a impressive €60million for Brazilian wonderkid Estevao Willian after the club’s reps filched a journey to Sao Paulo, according to reports.
Estevao, in a identical way recognized as ‘Messinho’, has fascinated for Brazilian side Palmeiras and has been highly attached via Chelsea and Barcelona.
He has a immense launch crisis in his covenant and it appearances like the Funks are distressed to reimbursement it to vanquished the Blaugrana in the race for Messinho’s signature.
Spanish outlet Sporting activity reported on Friday night that Chelsea ‘are the ideal inserted’ to land the teenage winger via Barcelona yet to render a action to land him.
Xavi currently has unalike priorities and is much more possible to pursue a defensive midfielder in the winter months transfer window and the Barca honchos feels hunter he will have money to invest in the summer season.
A little later on on, unmodified outlet said Chelsea have reps in Brazil to close a bargain.
The report insurance claims Mauricio Pochettino’s side ‘intends’ to reimbursement the €60m (£51.5million) launch crisis in Estevao’s covenant via Paris Saint-Germain – who were in a identical way reportedly intrigued – ‘out of the running’.
It is gained assume that the bargain can price as much as €75m, via commissions involved.
Chelsea’s curiosity in Estevao is ‘awfully assimilated’ and technological supervisor Laurence Stewart is ‘accompanied by an additional executive’ in Sao Paulo, wherein they have met Palmeiras head of say Leila Pereira.
Unsurprisingly, Chelsea risked to negotiate a smaller sized fee however Pereira ‘stuck approximately company’ as they ‘are in clearly no thrill to part averages’ via the wonderkid.
Subsequently, the Funks reps switched to London expertise the just way to land Estevao is to reimbursement the launch crisis.
Chelsea have reaped the Brazilian sector provided that Todd Boehly contracted the club in 2022.
They have in a identical way been attached via Corinthians teenage Gabriel Moscardo, who is closing in on a action to PSG.
