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Ricardo Pereira

Wouldn't surprise me if we have a signing agreed and didn't want to announce the signing before confirming the Walker deal. After all, any selling club now knows that our pockets are £50m deeper, so potential prices for players may well be inflated.

If instead, a deal was in place but not yet announced, this would help us to get maximum money out of City for Walker, before then announcing the new signing; this post is of course, relevant to the signing of a new right back.
 
Pereira has a 22.5m release clause in his contract, apparently, so his price won't be going up as a result of Walker's sale.
 
I wonder if Porto might accept 17.5 mill with an extra 5 mill based on appearances or whatever....that will take the deal to the 22.5 mill buyout clause
 
I wonder if Porto might accept 17.5 mill with an extra 5 mill based on appearances or whatever....that will take the deal to the 22.5 mill buyout clause

IIRC from some past deal we were involved with, the base fee is what triggers the release clause, not performance-based add-ons - so it will have to be a straight 22.5 mil, I think. We could structure that over four or five years if necessary, but we'll have to pay that amount one way or another.
 

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I read somewhere that there may be 3rd party ownership issues with Ricky P and that's why we are walking away
 
In England

But not in Portugal.....maybe now it's not obvious official 3rd party ownership, more like super agents having a huge influence on where players go e.g. Mendes

No, globally - it was a FIFA thing. It got called out as 'modern slavery'

It came into force in 2015 though, rather than 2009 (though it was warned about/been on the cards for years).
 
Porto are playing hardball over Tottenham target Ricardo Pereira, Sky Sports News HQ understands.

The Portugal right-back is Spurs' preferred choice to replace Kyle Walker, who joined Emirates Marketing Project in a deal worth in excess of £50m this week.

Pereira has a release clause of £22m but Porto had previously indicated a willingness to negotiate a lower transfer fee for the 23-year-old because they needed to accrue funds.

The Primeira Liga runners-up have since sold Ruben Neves to Wolves for £15m and Andre Silva to Milan for £33.3m however, as well as others, which has strengthened their financial position.

A source involved with Pereira has told Sky Sports News HQ that Porto may accept an offer in the region of £16m, but another has said the club could hold out for the entire £22m release clause.

And Tottenham must decide if they are prepared to pay that much for a player who will initially act as second choice to Kieran Trippier.

Sky sources claim Spurs have also been interested in the Monaco right-back Djibril Sidibe but the Frenchman signed a new five-year contract on Friday - the same day Walker completed his move to City.

Sidibe was thought to be one of a number of Monaco players with agreements to be able to leave the club this summer but it is almost certain that agreement has been evaporated by his new deal and he would be expected to fetch an even bigger transfer fee than Pereira.

Tottenham do already have another young right-back to deputise for Trippier in the coincidentally named Kyle Walker-Peters, who is liked by boss Mauricio Pochettino and believed to be nearing first-team contention.

Sky sources understand the early summer plan was to loan Walker-Peters out for first-team experience but that decision has been delayed until Spurs' right-back dilemma has been solved.

Pereira has been tracked by a number of Spurs scouts during his two-year loan spell at French Ligue 1 side Nice. They have also scouted the likes of Mitchell Weiser, Jeremy Toljan and Benjamin Henrichs in Germany.

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...r-tottenham-right-back-target-ricardo-pereira
 
Seeing as we knew walker was going for months bit disappointing that a replacement doesnt seem imminent.Why would porto accept less than the release cause.If we aren't going to pay it move onto the next one.
 
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