Stoke City have made an enquiry for Real Zaragoza’s Yussif Saidu, while Burnley and Leicester City also have him on their radar.
El Periódico de Aragón’s Thursday print edition reports on the 21-year-old midfielder and the growing interest in him this summer.
Loan offer acceptable
Turkish club Amed SFK have contacted Real Zaragoza over the last ten days to sound out potentially signing Yussif Saidu.
While they have never submitted a formal written offer. Instead, their interest has only been expressed via a verbal proposal. They made it clear that they were willing to take the 21-year-old on loan.
The plan involved paying a €300,000 loan fee and included a purchase option of €3m. That would be either mandatory or easily triggered.
Zaragoza have not ruled out a loan deal. But they proposed a counter offer consisting of a €500,000 loan fee and a mandatory €4m purchase at the end of the season. That would effectively get them the €5m they started the summer asking for.
Stoke City, Burnley and Leicester City
Negotiations have not advanced, though. Attention has now turned to other potential bidders. Stoke City have also asked about the terms of a potential deal. Leicester City and Burnley, alongside an unnamed German club, also have the player on their radar.
For now, however, these are merely inquiries rather than concrete moves. It seems Real Zaragoza are now waiting to see if Stoke, Leicester or Burnley turn that into something more concrete.
The Spanish side have shown a willingness to negotiate a deal should anyone come forwards for the central midfielder. A loan deal with a mandatory option would be easy for the two Championship sides to match at least.
Leicester may struggle more given they’re now in League One, and struggling financially, but it is again not a major outlay for English sides. The question now is whether they are willing to move concretely in the final weeks of the window.
