Florentino Luís

[AKCJ]

16 minutes ago, JimJams said:

I didn't say obligation. But we could have the contract drawn up similarly to Fatawu. Where his was obligation to buy on promotion, this could be obligation on survival.  That's if we can't get it as an option with first refusal.  In this situation there's literally no better way to do it if we are actually trying to get the player. The alternative is just pay up.

But they're not going to accept that.

[JimJams]

Just now, AKCJ said:

But they're not going to accept that.

Ok.

[Finnegan]

Just now, JimJams said:

Ok.

 

Florentino Luis =/= Abdul Fatawu. 

 

Florentino Luis grew up in Lisbon and has been on the books at Benfica since he was nine or ten years old. He's been a major long term project for one of the top 5 youth academies in the world since before puberty. They know everything about him, he's played hundreds of youth games for Benfica and Portugal and he's been a first team stalwart for a couple of years now racking up seventy to eighty odd senior matches for Benfica. 

 

They will have a very clear idea of his financial value to them, how long they plan to retain him and what sort of package they'll be after when he goes. 

 

By contrast, Abdul Fatawu is a kid Sporting took a punt on from an overseas league who played next to no senior football. He then messed around for a year in their B team while they tried to get an idea of his value. They got it wrong. We came in and offered them about £15m, they laughed in our face and immediately cashed in. It was a gamble that his value wouldn't rise all that much because they weren't too impressed with what they'd seen and they thought we were overpaying. 

 

Sad trombone noise for them when he goes on to light up the Championship. To be fair, they don't often miss. 

 

There is zero incentive for Benfica to loan out Luis with the same clauses we got with Abdul. The only reason a selling club in their position agree to a loan with obligation is if they can use this sort of deal to significantly inflate the asking price. In this instance, the buying club is paying more for the convenience of being able to kick the transfer fee down the road in to a later PSR / FFP period in which they are struggling less. 

 

We may very well see Leicester make a deal like that this window for exactly those reasons but Benfica won't give us an out in the form of "obligation IF we survive." There's no incentive for them to do that at all. We'll be paying it regardless or they won't do the deal at all. 

 

[Dan LCFC]

20 hours ago, Finnegan said:

In fairness, immense stats. 

 

Can't see it as likely really. Benfica would want huge wedge. 

 

In a side who are going to dominate as often as Benfica they're really impressive defensive stats. We'd do well to get him in on that profile. We've not had a solid defensive midfielder since Ndidi's drop off at some point in 2021.

[s11nny]

Out of all the players we been linked with so far this is the one I want to happen the most! Anymore news on this?

[FoxinNotts]

2 minutes ago, s11nny said:

Out of all the players we been linked with so far this is the one I want to happen the most! Anymore news on this?

He’s not played in the prem before. Not domestic. So SC don’t want him 👀

[K789]

19 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

He’s not played in the prem before. Not domestic. So SC don’t want him 👀

Someone better tell caleb okoli