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Forward will sign for three years and three months with Tianjin Teda
The deal with Soares is closed and the forward will even play for Tianjin Teda, China, for the next three years and three months, which is to say until the end of this season and three more seasons.
FC Porto will raise around 10 million euros, a value yet to be confirmed, but which for a time was established as a reference for the transfer of the team’s top scorer last season and the dragon’s top scorer since his arrival in January. of 2017. There were 64 goals in total, almost 20 per season on average, a third of them headed, a characteristic that distinguished him from the others and allowed him to remain the first regular option, now with competition from André Silva, now from Aboubakar and, more recently, Zé Luís.
Less than a year after the end of the contract, Soares had a couple of interested teams, but at this stage, four months after his 30th birthday, he also favored the economic component. He will earn around three million euros clean a year, in a total pie of 10 million euros.
The possibility of renewing for FC Porto arose some time ago, but it quickly became clear that the dragons would not have any economic argument to convince him, nor did they intend to prevent the player from signing the contract of his life, even because of the high professionalism that he always revealed. even in other stages when he was harassed. In fact, Tiquinho’s commitment was so great that Sérgio Conceição even thought of him for the starting eleven at the start of the season, which could even have happened if FC Porto showed up in 4x4x2.
The transfer has already been crossed out and has now been closed. On Sunday morning the forward no longer participated in the joint training with the B team that Conceição was preparing for all those who did not play with Braga.
The player may still return to Olival on Tuesday to say goodbye, but he is guaranteed to follow Tianjin Teda this week, which is in last place in Group B of the Chinese Super League with just two points from 11 games. Sandro Lima (ex-Gil Vicente) is the other Brazilian forward on the team. The departure must be official between this Monday and tomorrow Tuesday.
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