Brazil striker Evanilson could have a medical on Thursday after Bournemouth agreed a club-record £40.2 million switch deal for the 24-year-old with Porto, in accordance with a report.
Bournemouth pays £31.7m with potential add-ons of £8.5m for the Portuguese membership’s high scorer final season, BBC Sport has stated.
The Cherries bought their main marksman in 2023/24, Dominic Solanke, to Tottenham final week in a transfer price as much as £65m.
🇧🇷 It needed to be the hat-trick hero. Effectively performed, Evanilson 👏👏#UCLPOTW | @PlayStationEU pic.twitter.com/msrS6G80me
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) October 27, 2023
Evanilson: Porto to Bournemouth
Bournemouth supervisor Andoni Iraola has made Evanilson his eighth signing of the summer season as he bids to construct on a promising first season in cost which resulted in a Twelfth-placed end.
Iraola could have been involved by his facet’s defensive document – West Ham had been the one crew exterior of the relegation zone to concede extra – however a run of six wins and two attracts from 10 video games between February and April could have given him hope of ending increased in 2024/25.
Solanke was chargeable for 19 of their 54 top-flight objectives, with their whole fewer than any crew above them and two groups decrease within the desk.
Iraola was linked to a transfer for Arsenal ahead Eddie Nketiah however now seems to have turned to Evanilson, breaking a switch document set when Jefferson Lerma joined for £25m from Levante in 2018.
Thanks AFCB❤️. pic.twitter.com/CvNjE3WSk7
— Dom Solanke (@DomSolanke) August 10, 2024
Evanilson stats
Evanilson was the one Porto participant to succeed in double figures within the Liga Portugal final season, ending on 13 objectives and 4 assists.
Porto signed him from Brazilian membership Tombense for round £7.5m in 2020, and he went on to attain 14 instances in 30 top-flight appearances in 2021-22.
He contributed seven objectives and 6 assists in 2022-23 and scored one aim in 21 appearances throughout the Uefa Champions League and Europa League in his first three seasons on the membership.
These figures in Europe improved final season when Evanilson scored 4 instances and produced one help in seven Champions League video games.
All of these objectives got here in opposition to Royal Antwerp throughout the group stage, together with a hat-trick as a part of a 4-1 win in Belgium final October.
The Selecao have handed Evanilson two caps, together with his aggressive senior debut coming as an alternative of their defeat to Uruguay within the quarter-finals of the 2024 Copa America.
