Official: Ferro, the central defender who arrives half a year late to Valencia

Benfica's central defender Francisco Reis Ferreira ‘Ferro’ is already a player of Valencia until the end of this season, as confirmed by the club che. But the news ‘comes’ six months late.

They say that since at that time (with Geoffrey Kondogbia still in the team) the Javi Gracia's first request He was a central defender, the club had ready the loan of this tall Portuguese defender, thanks as many other times to the super agent Jorge Mendes. But they also say that at the last minute Peter lim, the maximum shareholder of the club stopped the operation.

Nor is that Javi grace will be shown in the previous days excited. Without knowing if it was because of him or another possible signing, he pointed out that better than training young people from other clubs was to do it with the Academy players.

The coach has never seen bad reinforcing the center of the defense but now it was not his first priority. For him, Gabriel Paulista It is fixed and it takes turns Mouctar Diakhaby Y Hugo Guillamón as their companions. Even so, it sure does not make you disgusted upon arrival.

In any case, his priority is now for a defensive midfielder to arrive, a third signing that it seems could be the Uruguayan from Cagliari Christian Oliva after the additions of ‘Ferro’ and the Italian forward Patrick Cutrone.