Done deal! Sporting academy graduate heads to Sevilla, Varandas cashes in | OneFootball

Done deal! Sporting academy graduate heads to Sevilla, Varandas cashes in | OneFootball

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·22 August 2025

Done deal! Sporting academy graduate heads to Sevilla, Varandas cashes in

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It’s a done deal. Flávio Nazinho, former Sporting player, will strengthen Betis. The left-back has an agreement to sign a contract with the club from Seville, in a transfer that brings Cercle Brugge a sum of six million, plus bonuses based on objectives. Sporting will receive almost 1 million.

"Real Betis has reached an agreement to sign Nazinho as the new left-back from Cercle Brugge, here we go! Deal in place for 6M plus add-ons and a sell-on clause", wrote Fabrizio Romano, an expert on transfer market matters.


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Sporting is rubbing its hands with glee. That’s because the club’s SAD, when selling the player to the Belgian club in June 2024 (for €2M), secured 15% of any future capital gain, which means Flávio Nazinho will bring in around 900 thousand euros to the green and white coffers.

Besides his good season with the Belgian vice-champions, with 37 games, one goal, and six assists, the player was also one of the standouts for Portugal’s under-21s, coached by Rui Jorge, who last month reached the quarter-finals of the European Championship in that category. The player was even on Roma’s radar.

Before heading to Belgium, Flávio Nazinhonow valued at 3 million eurosplayed 11 matches for Sporting’s first team. In total, the left-back clocked 383 minutes for the green and white senior squad, under the management of Ruben Amorim.

Nazinho shone for the under-21s:

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