Mika Faye is a Porto target, as MD advances. The Senegalese central defender of Barça Atlètic is very popular at the historic Portuguese club, which is nevertheless in the global task of settling its accounts to make the entity sustainable under the ownership of the members. This is how he explained André Villas-Boas, new president of Portoin a interview with Now. “Porto is a members’ club and can survive and be sustainable as a members’ club, although to continue this existence as a members’ club we need to win sportingly,” he explained. One of the reasons is the adjustment of the salary bill of his staff, a common evil among many historical figures on the European scene and what helps to understand the movements as they are forming: with the departure of Pepe, 41 years old and with a high salary, he will let in Faye, 19 years old and clearly more affordable.
Pepe has a net worth of three million euros which explains his departure from the club. “There is another path and there is also concern, in a way, on the part of the new FC Porto to reduce salaries and expenses, I explained this clearly to Pepe and he understood it,” elaborated Vilas Boas.
The new coach, Vitor Bruno, took over from Sergio Conceiçao with a mission to live up to the club’s prestige by betting on the future. Vilas-Boas praised Bruno for “understanding the files, what the current squad is and what it wants and needs.” “To build a winning team, therefore, we know very well from our conversations with him what he wants and we are intervening in the market in this sense,” he said.
Even without going into specific names like Faye’s, it seems clear that the way is to give entry to the projects of great players in exchange for letting some celebrity know that the departure significantly eases salary In general, the need to generate income to comply with UEFA control is in the historical line of the club With the advancement of MD, one of the keys to the possible deal with Porto regarding Faye is that Barça wants to reserve a purchase option, a point where. the dragons disagree because they want to have control over the future of the young 19-year-old defender.
Source: La Verdad
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