Loïc Badé has decided to stay at Sevilla and turn down a potential move to Aston Villa this month.
That’s according to ABC Sevilla, who report that the defender has informed Sevilla he does not intend to leave for Aston Villa.
The newspaper states that Sevilla will be left without the ‘great winter sale’ they had been targeting for a couple of weeks.
Loïc Badé had been lined up to be that sale and Aston Villa director of football Monchi had informed the club that they wanted to sign the defender.
However, Badé is said to have thrown a spanner into the works. He does not want to make the move according to ABC. Nobody had expected him to make this decision given the current comparison between the two sides and the ‘much higher salary’ on offer at Aston Villa.
An agreement worth €32m, consisting of €26m plus variables, had been agreed but the French defender has ‘rejected the English team’.
Monchi has continued to work on the deal and showed no hesitancy to increase his offer but instead found the ‘unexpected problem’ of Badé’s refusal.
This feels very much like a Sevilla specific stance, and good media relations for the club. It’s questionable whether Monchi would have even made the offer if he wasn’t sure Loïc Badé wanted the Aston Villa move.
In addition, nobody else in Spain is reporting this yet.
