Real Madrid remain keen on Manchester City’s Pedro Porro, even if he is set to join Sporting on a permanent basis in the summer.
That’s according to A Bola, who say the Spanish side are not perturbed by the agreement in place or the fact the full-back has just signed an improved contract with the Portuguese side.
They explain that Porro has just signed a new contract with Sporting until June 2025, which is set to come into effect when he joins the club on a permanent basis in the summer.
He’s been with them on loan from Manchester City for the last two seasons, and that deal will be made permanent for €8.5m at the end of the season after the two clubs agreed on a price in the initial loan agreement in 2020.
Sporting have been so impressed by what they have seen, though, they have already tied Porro down to a new deal at the club that will see him linked to them until 2025.
That new contract includes a pay rise from €500,000 a year to €800,000 a year and, crucially, a €45m release clause.
The latter is to ward off interested parties, and there is one big one, Real Madrid, who have long been suitors and ‘promise not to give up’ their pursuit of him.
The €45m clause ‘does not scare’ the Spanish giants, and while it is unlikely they will match it, the interest from elsewhere means they will ‘not cool the interest’ either.
It is because of all of this that Sporting have moved to improve his current deal, and the last step in the process is paying the €8.5m required to sign the player on a permanent basis from Manchester City.
That is all ‘scheduled’, though, and when it finally does go through, they can presumably turn their attention to a possible huge profit if the likes of Real Madrid come calling.
