The Spaniard intensified negotiations in the last part of the winter market, focusing efforts on the arrival of a defensive midfielder to strengthen the spinal cord, ‘lame’ after Keidi Bare’s injury. Without forgetting, in addition, that Pol Lozano will ask to leave and from the club they accept the activation of a possible transfer. Another loss in the middle of the field.
Sports management has several open fronts when it comes to finalizing the arrival of a defensive midfielder. One of the names that came up strongly was that of young José Gragera, a Sporting de Gijón midfielder who asked to leave.
The Spaniard would have done, putting an offer on the table for Gragera. But this is not the only club that wants him, as Sporting Braga are also bidding heavily. The pulse is served. It seems that the first offer from the Portuguese club is, at the moment, higher than the Catalans, according to sources close to the midfielder. But the Spaniard, in principle, will have the ‘advantage’ that Gragera was attracted by the idea of playing for the blue and white club.
Espanyol, according to COPE Asturias, can pay a maximum of 2.7 million, but Sporting wants to scratch at least 4 million. Braga also pushes hard, so the pulse is served.
Sporting and Gelu Rodríguez, the midfielder’s representative, held a long meeting on Thursday where the options the young midfielder could go to were considered. On Wednesday, Sporting president David Guerra confirmed that no offers had come in for Gragera and that the club would not sell him. A day later, the panorama would have changed.
Source: La Verdad
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