Gino Pozzo will not exercise the € 11 million ransom by 30 June The Dutch talent is recovering from his knee injury at the end of April
UDINE. Udinese will not exercise the redemption right for Jayden Braaf from Manchester City by midnight of next Wednesday 30 June, term coinciding with the deadline of the dry loan made by the English club to the Friulians last January, but it is still very close to the annual renewal of the Dutch talent’s loan, close to turning 19 on August 31. So good news arrives for all the Zebretta fans who have had the opportunity to test the qualities of a boy who landed in Friuli with the desire to conquer spaces and considerations, and who unfortunately had to postpone his “take-off” in black and white to the most beautiful, stopped by the rupture of the cruciate ligament in his left knee, just after finding his first goal as a professional in Benevento, last April 25th.
A few days after his first Italian goal (the youngest of the Serie A 2020-2021 edition), scored with that delicious dry dribbling to return, followed by the left jab at the near post, Braaf was in fact injured in training, or rather, was mowed clean from the back in a match at Bruseschi, as evidenced also by the video that the same player posted on Instagram. By chance of fate, at that moment the former Under 23 of the City ended his season, he finished shortly thereafter under the knife of Professor Cugat, in early May, and therefore was no longer able to put himself at the service of a Gotti who would have undoubtedly granted him the field, ownership and therefore visibility, also thanks to the injuries that have decimated the offensive department.
It was therefore the injury, the one that will bring Braaf back to the field not before the beginning of November, that led to the renegotiation of the loan, de facto postponing that on the right of redemption in favor of Udinese, initially set at 9 million pounds (11 of euro) and on which Gino Pozzo should have ruled by Wednesday. It’s bad to say it, but what would have decided and what price would City have given if Braaf had scored more goals in his last month of the championship? The answer can already be guessed from the modest onerous request that the City would like to place for the renewal of the loan, a sum on which we are discussing, but which will not be an obstacle. All this, remembering that the club is always looking for a new striker as well as Maxi Romero, which will be made official next week. Interest Christian Kouamè of Fiorentina, while Sydney Van Hooijdonk it is closer to Bologna.
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