FC Porto are currently in contact with Boca Juniors to try to negotiate deadlines for the payment of Alan Varela's clearance.

The SAD administration, led by Andre Villas-Boas, was surprised by the failure to pay a slice of the Argentine midfielder's pass, amounting to three million euros, dating back to last March, and is now trying to reach an agreement to avoid that. Any complaints to sporting bodies by FC Buenos Aires.

After the failure of the Pinto da Costa administration to adhere to contractual terms, Villas-Boas's team is trying to establish a relationship of trust with creditors and buy some time to resolve the enormous financial difficulties he faced as soon as he took office on December 28. maybe.

Varela was signed last August by FC Porto for eight million euros, plus another three million depending on goals, leaving the Argentine club entitled to 20 percent of capital gains from a future transfer. All this in a transfer process involving several intermediaries.

Porto paid three million euros upon signing, after missing the second installment of the same amount in March. There is also another tranche of €2 million, which expires in December, at the end of this calendar year.

The midfielder, who turns 23 on July 4, has signed a contract with the Dragons until 2028 and has become a regular in the first team in this first season: playing 44 matches, scoring two goals and three assists.

It is worth noting that Varela has a market in Europe and FC Porto have recruited another young Argentine defensive midfielder from Boca Juniors to block the way for a potential exit. This is Ezequiel Fernandez, 21 years old. However, the current debt owed by the club “Zenezi” makes any progress on a future signing difficult.