Benfica have agreed a deal to promote defender Ruben Dias to Manchester Metropolis for 68 million euros ($79.2m) with Nicolas Otamendi shifting in the wrong way in a separate deal for 15 million euros, the Portuguese giants have introduced. In an announcement late on Sunday, Benfica stated that the deal for Dias would additionally see Metropolis pay an additional three.6 million euros in potential bonuses.
“The settlement relies on the participant agreeing a contract with Manchester Metropolis,” the Lisbon membership stated.
Dias, 23, is a product of Benfica’s famend academy and has been capped 19 instances by Portugal. He scored Benfica’s opening aim in a 2-Zero win over Moreirense on the weekend within the Portuguese league.
City boss Pep Guardiola will see him because the lacking piece in his defensive jigsaw, with the necessity for reinforcements accentuated by Sunday’s shock 5-2 home defeat by Leicester City.
Otamendi, 32, has not been utilized by Guardiola in both of Metropolis’s Premier League video games thus far this season. The Argentine worldwide has spent 5 years in England and has beforehand performed in Portugal, turning out for Benfica’s bitter rivals Porto between 2010 and 2014.
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His transfer continues to be topic to a medical, Benfica stated.
Benfica coach Jorge Jesus stated on the weekend that promoting Dias was crucial for the membership to steadiness their accounts after a defeat by Greek facet PAOK within the third qualifying spherical of the Champions League ended their hopes of reaching the group stage.
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