Sevilla ‘cannot carry out’ an operation to sign Leicester City midfielder Boubakary Soumaré in the summer, despite a desire to do so.
That’s according to Estadio Deportivo, who back up reports from Spain that Sevilla currently don’t have the money to activate a €15m clause in his loan deal.
The newspaper explains that Soumaré is one of the open fronts that Sevilla has for the summer market, when a rebuild of the squad is expected.
The midfielder is currently on loan from Leicester and has bene growing in the team, particularly under Quique Sanchez Flores and there is a willingness to sign him on a permanent basis.
They have an option to do so via a €15m purchase clause in his deal but at the moment it would be ‘impossible’ for the Spanish side to activate it.
That’s because Sevilla are currently in financial difficulties, which are only set to worsen next year as they won’t have the income from a European competition.
Thus, they can’t afford to activate that clause, nor can they activate other clauses they hold for Lucien Agoumé and Hannibal Mejbri.
Sevilla are not focusing on them for the moment and have to focus on lightening the squad, getting rid of large salaries to help loosen up the budget and bring it in line.
With that as the focus, signing Soumaré on a permanent basis would be ‘complicated’, at least in the current circumstances. Everything can change in the coming months and if the Leicester man was to make an effort to make the transfer happen, it might be possible.
He gave up 40% of his wages in the summer to make the loan deal happen and the idea is that he’d have to do that again, or perhaps barter with the Foxes to get a permanent move to Seville.
