Five years ago,
this kind of deal would be considered a great purchase by any Premier
League team, including Chelsea. according to ESPN Brasil's Mauro Cezar Pereira.
In the latest report on the Pato front claims that player and Chelsea's
representatives - the latter led by club director Marina Granovskaia -
have reached a verbal agreement on Tuesday, with an impending deal only
needed to be put on paper to be finished by both parties.
Pato's
transfer was delayed due to an incomplete deal between AC Milan and
Chinese club Jiangsu Suning for striker Luiz Adriano, which was
conducted by Pato's agent Gilmar Veloz.
The terms are believed to be in
the range of £8 million to £10 million as a transfer fee, as well as a
three-year long contract. His current club Corinthians have the rights
to receive 60% of said fee after paying approximately £10.7 million to
have Pato in their squad back in 2013.
The 26-year-old player hasn't
had the same injury issues from his AC Milan years, but these were dealt
with at the cost of losing his speed in similar ways to previous
Chelsea player Fernando Torres.
In the Brazilian League, he played
mostly as a left winger for loan club São Paulo, claiming in an
interview last year that he doesn't have the physique nor the frame to play as an in-and-out #9.
While his goalscoring record
hasn't been that bad, many of his goals this year have come in matches
against teams teams from São Paulo state regional championship that
aren't even in the Brazilian League lower divisions.
He also bagged a
lot of goals in the Brazilian league under now-Mexican national team
manager Juan Carlos Osorio's tenure, in which the team had great
offensive fluidity and freedom, but was quite loose on the back-end.
His transfer might have value
for the little amount of money involved, but this remains to be a
worrying trend nevertheless.
If Pato is the best name that we can come
up with as a January transfer window
'adjustment' signing, it's hard to think that our prospects going
forward are too bright - or maybe that's just the panic taking over.
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