This is a file that is starting to drag on… For several days already, the Spanish and Brazilian media have explained that Betis has reached an agreement with John Textor’s Eagle Football group for the transfer of Luiz Henrique, the 23-year-old winger playing within the Andalusian club. The Sevillians would thus receive 20 million euros including bonus. Only, we didn’t really know which club in the Eagle galaxy was going to join the Brazilian…
As the Brazilian press explained, Textor would have promised Luiz Henrique that he would go to OL… Except that obviously, the American businessman had planned to send him to Botafogo, another club he owns. “Fake journalism by people who weren’t sitting in his kitchen. This was always proposed as a signing for Botafogo, with a spell at Eagle…Luiz is a good young man, and we gave him time to make a big decision for his family”insisted on denying Textor immediately.
The player wants OL
Only, Estadio Deportivo adds another layer this Wednesday. The Sevillian media specifies that the agreement between Betis and Eagle is complete, but that it is the player who still poses a problem. However, he had agreed on his future salary, but he does not want to join Brazil, and wishes to join Olympique Lyonnais. He is even ready to play a year at Botafogo if that allows him to come to OL in 2025.
He refuses to sign a contract as a Botafogo player, and wants to sign as a Lyon player. Problem, still according to the Andalusian media, the DNCG is currently preventing Olympique Lyonnais from being able to carry out such an operation currently. As for Crystal Palace, it’s complicated because of Brexit laws. The media specifies that the parties involved in this deal hope to conclude this file in time, but it promises to be difficult…
