Send them GKN as punishment for making us wait so long for Lo Celso
I'm not sure it gives them that much leverage. I'm not a fan of our window closing sooner but one thing for sure is that the Premier League clubs have more money to spend than most. Betis will know if they dont sell to us they're less likely to get big money elsewhere. So the clock is ticking for them too if they want a premium for their player. If it wasn't a Premier League club trying to sign him they'd probably not hold out for so much in the first place.
https://m.diariodesevilla.es/realbetis/Betis-Celso-Borja-Iglesias_0_1379562473.amp.html
De Lo Celso to Borja Iglesias
Betis tightens the rope after the last Tottenham proposal of 52 million euros by the Argentine
Espanyol awaits the final movement through the tip
Tottenham insists on Lo Celso
The week of the closing of the market in the Premier seems decisive to define the final roadmap of Betis planning that is still pending the future of Giovani Lo Celso and that Borja Iglesias has the desired forward. Thursday afternoon ends the term of signings in England, a day before the start of the competition, and in Betis awaits Tottenham, the team that has more firm interest in the Argentine.
The English team has been behind Lo Celso for months, but the high demands of Verdiblancas, initially assessing the left-hander at 75 million euros, blocked the operation. With the passing of the weeks and after verifying that no other team approached that intended figure, Betis has tightened the rope after the last proposal of Tottenham, estimated at 52 million euros and with eight more in variables.
Although the proposal already falls within the market value of Lo Celso, Betis wants the English team to make a final effort to satisfy Mauricio Pochettino, the great supporter of the Argentine. From England, with Daniel Levy as a tough negotiator, it is transmitted that this offer will be the last one made by Tottenham, which began offering 40 million. In addition, the Spurs leader is also immersed in other draft operations such as the possible incorporations of Bruno Fernandes,the midfielder of Sporting of Portugal, and Ryan Sessegnon , the left wing of Fulham, or the transfer of Christian Eriksen, the Danish midfielder who ends his contract in 2020 and has been reluctant to negotiate a renewal.
With this panorama, the future of Lo Celso must be cleared in the next few hours. With a serious face, and accompanied by Sidnei and Emerson, the Argentine left yesterday the sports city after half past one in the afternoon , after he returned with the team from Casablanca, where he traveled but remained without dispute any minute.
The multiple edges of the Lo Celso contract, with percentages in case of sale for the PSG (20% of the surplus value), Rosario Central (3%) and another amount for the agent and the player, cause that the final negotiation is not simple for Betis to match the numbers provided on your road map.
After the transfer of Junior and the availability of those 18 million euros, and waiting for what happens with Lo Celso and Camarasa, Betis wants to advance definitively for Borja Iglesias , before Rubi's desire to have the forward as soon as possible. "We are waiting for that, if Betis wants something, he will tell us. We set some payment terms and from there we have not moved. The ball is on the other side. When things are good for the three parties it will reach a agreement. As long as this is not the case, everything is stopped, " said the vice president of Espanyol , Carlos García Pont, when asked about the situation of the negotiations with Betis.
With the agreement with Borja Iglesias agreed for weeks, Betis is waiting to raise the money needed to undertake the operation, although always without compromising other operations that it wants to address in this market. In addition to the striker, the technicians consider the arrival of a left side that covers the low of Junior and that is competition for Pedraza essential .
The economic injection that would involve the sale of Lo Celso would allow Betis to face the final stretch of the market with availability to undertake the arrival of that side and also any other option that was put to shot before September 2.
That’s ok because the guy who wrote it was plastered
Absolutely, but if we've struggled to agree a deal for lo celso for around 60m, I have absolutely no idea how we'd agree a 80m plus deal for coutinho, in the space of 2 days.
