Earlier on Moday, we covered claims from AfricaFoot regarding Brighton & Hove Albion interest in Slavia Praha’s El Hadji Malick Diouf. They said they’d spoken to the player’s agent who had relayed that interest, and there was talk of a €16m offer from Brighton, with a potential further €2m in bonus payments.
Now Slavia have had their say, with the suggestion €16m isn’t enough from Brighton but a similar figure could be deemed enough if it came from Liverpool or Chelsea.
It would appear the Czech club’s chairman Jaroslav Tvrdík would be more understanding if Liverpool or Chelsea converted their interest into an actual offer themselves.
Tvrdík has been speaking to the Czech media and made it clear Slavia Praha don’t need to sell so will only do so on their terms.
Quoted by Infotbal, Tvrdík said: “After the departures of Kinsky, Jurásek and Ousou, we have €25m in transfer revenue, which is perhaps a record year in ten-year history. I don’t even feel the slightest pressure to sell anyone. At the same time, we don’t want to weaken the defence with Malick after Tondo. So I hope he doesn’t leave. We quite consciously put a high price tag on him.”
He then suggested that price should be €20m+, before again making it clear he’d be more understanding if what he deems to be a huge club arrived for the defender: “If Liverpool and Chelsea, who were also interested in him, had come with an offer of around €17-18m, I would have hesitated to approach it differently from the perspective of promoting the club or the player’s interest.
“If Chelsea comes, we wouldn’t keep anyone. Nothing will change, it’s just not possible objectively. One has to admit that the Czech league and Slavia have some limits. Even PSG , when it comes to breaking the bank, won’t keep their player and he’ll go to Real Madrid. We’re part of a football chain and we’re not at the top of it,”
