Progress - Lucas Moura wants to
join Manchester United and the club is now happy to sell
25 July2012
All the parties involved in a
possible transfer of Lucas Moura to Manchester United are gradually coming
together on the deal and a transfer which at the outset looked unlikely is now
looking like it could very well be on.
Yesterday quotes hit England from
Moura's agent, Wagner Ribeiro, which said that the transfer was off and his
client would be staying at Sao Paulo. He said that Manchester United wouldn't
offer any more and that the Brazilian club had basically blown the chances of a
transfer happening.
It sounded like a strop and
contradicted what the main Brazilian press were saying. The general consensus
was that a new slightly higher bid would be made today and that Sao Paulo would
be very happy to accept that.
Yesterday evening new quotes of
Ribeiro's came through from Brazil, firstly he said he would be in Manchester
this weekend. He then insisted that he wasn't travelling on business but rather
to watch the football match between Brazil and Belarus at Old Trafford, not
many believed him.
He later talked to Brazilian
radio, quoted by Globo Esporte, and said that Lucas Moura is the one who has
been pushing him to talk to Manchester United and that the player wants the
deal to happen.
"My boss is the player, I
always talk to him. The person who determines what I do, my guidelines, is the
player.
"He told me to go ahead when
I spoke in the interest of Manchester."
Over on Lancenet, the other major
Brazilian sport outlet, Sao Paulo's vice president has told them that the club
were never against the idea of a deal being done and that people have
misunderstood the situation, which sounds like a plea for Manchester United to
come back with another offer.
That offer will be submitted
today if previous reports are correct.
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