Barcelona have turned down a €2m bid from Tottenham for midfielder Lucas de Vega, demanding at least double to sanction a deal.
That’s according to Sport, who say the Spanish club are resistant to selling the 20-year-old Brazilian this summer.
Tottenham were first linked with De Vega at the end of last month, with a report from La Verdad naming them as suitors and claiming that the youngster’s ‘dream’ was to make the move and ‘try his luck’ with Spurs.
Sport pick up on that today and state that Tottenham ‘made a formal’ offer for De Vega, which the newspaper has learned was around €2m.
Barça rejected that bid and instead ‘asked for double’ knowing that was an amount that Tottenham was ‘unlikely to reach’.
Indeed, their intention is to resist a sale and Barcelona B boss Francisco Javier García Pimienta has made it clear he considers the player good enough to be starting in his team next season following a successful loan spell at Cartagena last season.
Thus, Barcelona don’t want to sell, and Tottenham have ‘not made any movement’ since making their first bid, which it’s claimed ‘unsettled’ the Spanish giants.
Now, though, there is ‘tranquillity’ at the club as Spurs have not continued to push, although there is plenty of time for that to change as the transfer window rumbles on.
