On Sunday, we’ve covered stories from two Portuguese newspapers which said Anderson Talisca’s move to Wolverhampton was done. The player was said to be only waiting for his flying tickets to go and sign his contract with the English side.
After a long saga and promises of announcements “in the next few days”, we must admit we were pretty happy to see this coming to an end. But it seems it was just another false alarm.
Benfica played Braga for the Portuguese Supercup last night, and with the win, most of their players got a medal for the title. Talisca, who didn’t make part of the squad, couldn’t get his.
A Bola explains his situation on Monday, saying he’s about to become a father and is sorting a move out of the club. But when talking about the transfer, they claim it should be settled “this week”.
“This week” is probably worse than “in the next few days”, so we can just guess it won’t be finished so soon. Both the Benfica president Luis Filipe Vieira and Talisca’s agent Jorge Mendes were seen at Wolverhampton’s first game of the season in the Championship on Saturday, so the whole story may not be a lie.
However, it’s hard to know what the problem with the transfer is, and if the FA are really denying to back a work permit, the €25m move should end up collapsing. If the move is for a value of €25m, then Talisca could likely get a work permit for a Premier League club too.
