The case around the future of Facundo Pellistri (18 years old), the great jewel of Uruguayan football, has just reached its end a few hours after the closing of the transfer market in England. Few minutes ago The contracts have been signed and the attacker has committed himself for the next five seasons (plus an optional one) with Manchester United, which by club policy has tried by all means not to pay the termination clause, of 10 million dollars. In fact, you will pay for it something else: about 10.25; to change, as stated in the documentation, 8,750,000 euros. Peñarol will make it official at 8:00 p.m. on Monday in Uruguay, where the boy passed the medical examinations.
In this way some months of many negotiations. Pellistri, followed through Juni Calafat by the Real Madrid, who nevertheless never bid for him, he was in July near Manchester City. However, Peñarol rejected the English proposal because it was about 100% of the footballer's pass, which prevented him from receiving a percentage for a possible subsequent sale. Now 20% of the capital gain from an eventual transfer has been secured, an amount waived by the already former '10' of the team from Montevideo for going to United and in a most significant deference to the club that has formed him.
Before this move to Old Trafford, where he will arrive this Tuesday, Pellistri was even considered a new player of the Lyon. There was an almost total agreement between the parties, in the absence of only a few fringes that they hoped to resolve. After very long meetings, the last of more than six hours last Friday, the talks broke down. In those, the United, which in an express operation has acquired one of the greatest talents in South America.