Last week, we covered claims from the Brazilian media explaining that Fulham have made advances in their efforts to sign Fluminense’s André Trindade.
The 22-year-old is the product of the club’s youth system, and has been with their first team since 2020. His desire is to leave Fluminense and make a switch to Europe this summer.
Rádio Itatiaia claim the Brazilian club ‘hope to complete’ the 22-year-old’s sale to Fulham soon.
Fluminense president Mário Bittencourt has confirmed that the Premier League side have made an offer for André, which hasn’t convinced them so far. He makes it clear that there are no negotiations with Fulham as they have requested for more money to sanction the Brazil international’s sale.
“There’s no negotiation. There’s a proposal that was made [by Fulham], Fluminense made a counter-proposal and there has been no response to it yet. It’s been about 10 days,” he said, as quoted by Rádio Itatiaia.
“Fulham are the club that have been looking for André since last year, as well as Liverpool. In January they made a new bid. At the moment, what we have is a piece of paper from Fulham with a proposal, and a piece of paper from Fluminense with a counter-proposal. We don’t have an answer yet.”
According to Rádio Itatiaia, Fluminense are expecting £25m for André. On Thursday, Goal in Brazil reported Fulham have tabled a €25m [£21.2m] bid and they would have to raise the offer by a few millions to get the deal over the line.
Last Thursday, Trivela reported the player’s agent was in London to hold talks with Fulham over his client’s personal terms.
The president has revealed he’s aware of these claims and adds that this shouldn’t come as a surprise, even though there’s still no agreement in place between the two clubs.
“I saw a recent report, published by an English journalist, that the player was already talking to the club,” Bittencourt explained.
“That’s normal, it’s part of the negotiation between player and club. If so, how much salary he would like to earn, etc. It’s a negotiation that Fluminense is not part of, between the player and the possible future club. The three parties have to come to an agreement.”
