Fasten your seat-belts Liverpool, you’ve been picked out by A Bola for a big summer transfer rumour. Nobody loves a rumour more than the Portuguese media, and with clubs in the country providing a steady stream of information to their favoured outlets, nothing stays secret for very long.
Of course, that also means there’s a lot of player marketing work done by the media, but if a footballer is leaving or arriving in Portugal then the vast majority of the time the story will be led by a Portuguese sport newspaper.
Gelson has a buyout clause of €60m, but Sporting president Bruno de Carvalho will start talking at around €50m. In fact, he’d probably snatch the collective Liverpool hand off for such an amount early in the transfer window.
Liverpool ‘have a lot of money to invest’ believe A Bola, and Gelson has been identified. It’s claimed Liverpool scouted Sporting last season, and there’s truth in that, but they weren’t there every week.
