Heads up, Sporting! Brazilian club bids €19m for Jota Silva | OneFootball

Nottingham Forest has rejected an offer from Botafogo for Jota Silva. The Portuguese international forward is one of the main transfer targets for Sporting in this transfer window, as he is a special request from Rui Borges to the club’s management.

According to information reported by the newspaper Record, the Rio de Janeiro club made an offer for the ‘number 20’ of the tricky trees worth 19 million euros fixed. This amount could be increased by another 1M for every 20 games played for Botafogo. In total, the deal could reach a maximum value of 23M.

Sporting’s latest proposal, however, had different terms from Botafogo’s. In a final push for Jota Silva, the Sporting board presented a loan valid for one season, with a fee of 2 million euros, with the possibility of another 2M based on objectives: 1M if he played 50% of the games for the Alvalade club and another million if he reached 15 goals.

In the case of the proposal presented by Frederico Varandas’ management, the deal also included a mandatory purchase clause in the summer of 2026, which would see the former Vitória de Guimarães winger join Sporting permanently for 16 million euros. Even so, this deal was rejected by the owner of the tricky trees, Evangelos Marinakis.

Jota Silva – valued at 15 million euros – took part in 37 matches for Nottingham Forest last season: 31 in the Premier League, five in the FA Cup, and one in the English League Cup. Rarely a first-choice option in England, the winger scored four goals and provided two assists. The player came off the bench in the first round of this season’s Premier League.

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