Liverpool’s attempt to sign André from Fluminense last year is still a subject at Fluminense.
As club president Mario Bittencourt this week spoke to the local media, he detailed what happened around the midfielder, as they held him until the end of the Copa Libertadores campaign.
Quoted by Globo Esporte, the club chief claims it was all worth it, as they won the title. And he even gave some details of how much Liverpool had put on the table.
“We had an offer for André of €30m from Liverpool and we said ‘no’ because we had agreed with the player that we wouldn’t sell him because we wanted to win the Libertadores. Since then, we’ve had a second offer, from an English club, for well under €30m, which we turned down because we felt it was below what Fluminense expects for the player,” said Bittencourt.
The important thing is that Fluminense are fully prepared to sell André now, with Globo Esporte featuring a story saying the club have 24 hours to do so.
They expect the midfielder to be their biggest sale in history, and consider a good offer to be over €35m. The problem is that since that hasn’t arrived at their table yet, they’re starting to think no European club would spend that in the middle of the season.
We shall now see if Liverpool will show up with a few million more, although we wouldn’t rule out that the same summer offer would be accepted this time.
