Earlier on Tuesday, we covered a story from Portuguese newspaper A Bola which said Tottenham Hotspur are still ‘very far’ from meeting Benfica’s demands for Pedro Porro.
Spurs were asked to trigger the player’s €45m release clause, and according to the report, they are nowhere close to reaching that price.
It turns out Tottenham could be looking for an alternative to make that deal possible. That’s today explained by newspaper Correio da Manhã.
They say the only issue stopping the move now is Spurs’ full payment of the clause, and with the London side unable to do that so far, it’s said they could look for ‘credit’, even if that makes the operation more expensive.
That’s likely to mean using a bank to afford that amount and then pay interest for that.
Correio da Manhã recalls that’s something similar to what Atletico Madrid did with João Félix.
The player had a €120m release clause and the Spanish club ended up spending €126m.
With Tottenham having a hard time to afford the transfer, there’s now some optimism that Porro will stay at Sporting.
That’s something that comes from newspaper Record, who claims that the Lions ‘trust’ that the player will stay at least until the end of the season.
