'Over €40m' – Romano jacks up price of in-demand Chelsea star again; sporting directors ready to cash in
Transfer insiders go head to head over Portugal international price
Renato Veiga's price keeps climbing upwards as interest in the defender increases.
It happened again yesterday – Plettenberg the pretender wrote yesterday morning that Atletico Madrid had joined Bayern Munich in the race to sign Renato Veiga from Chelsea with a speculated price of €35m.
Romano wants his own back by adding further exclusive detail – and in this case he's claimed that Chelsea want 'over €40m' for the versatile defender.
That would work out as something like €35m plus some add ons and bonuses, but it's still a pretty significant difference.
Veiga wants out because he feels he's too far back in the pecking order both at left back and centre back to be a regular ahead of the World Cup next summer, for which he wants to play week in week out to secure his place in the Portugal first team. Chelsea are happy to cash in on an asset which has seen its value skyrocket since he arrived from Basel a year ago.
Sporting directors will be delighted with quick flip of bargain buy
Whether it's €30m, €35m or €40m, a sale at that level will represent a great success for our sporting directors.
They bought Veiga as a pretty much total unknown a year ago, juiced him up with some Conference League games and a loan to Juve, and now are set to cash in majorly on him.
That's good scouting, good business on the buy price, and good development of the prospect with steady minutes at a high level. Great work all round.
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