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For Conor Gallagher at Atlético de Madrid, all that is missing is the official announcement. The 24-year-old midfielder, trained at Chelsea, will sign a five-year contract with the Mattresses. But in parallel with this file, the Madrid club has studied other avenues for its midfielder, such as that leading to Javi Guerra. According to Miguel Angel Corona, sporting director of the Valencian club, for The AthleticAtlético even tried to cancel the transfer of Gallagher to finalize that of the 21-year-old Spaniard.
” There is an agreement (between the clubs) on Sunday between the president of Valencia and the main shareholder of Atletico. On Wednesday morning, due to the delay in the return of the documents from Atletico and some comments, we asked Atletico why it was taking so long? They told us that they were trying to break the agreement with Chelsea and that if they did not succeed, they would not be able to complete the transfer of Javi Guerra.explains Corona. So we stopped everything, because we hadn’t talked about it in recent days, during our conversations on WhatsApp, by email, by phone. (…) We withdrew to protect ourselves. “Not sure that the England international (18 caps) will appreciate hearing this story.
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