Exit risk! Europeans eye Cuiabano and Vasco brace for windfall | OneFootball

Cuiabano’s excellent start to life at Vasco da Gama has raised alarm bells in the Rio club’s football department this Friday (27). The standout performances from the 23-year-old have been enough to draw serious attention from the international market, leading to direct contact from European clubs with the Cruz-Maltino board and with Nottingham Forest of England, the club that owns the player’s rights and loaned him to Brazilian football until the end of the current season.

Information published by newspaper O Globo and confirmed by portal ge on Thursday (26) revealed that scouts from German clubs were present at stadiums in Rio de Janeiro in recent weeks. The defender was the player who impressed observers the most among all athletes aged 23 or under currently playing in Série A. As an immediate result of those visits, giants such as Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund contacted both the English club and the Rio side to make their first official inquiries, competing for attention with two more clubs from Italy that are also tracking the player’s progress.

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Brazil national team attention and a leading role at Vasco

The full-back’s overwhelming impact under coach Renato Gaúcho goes beyond the European market. The player has taken on a starring role in the team’s resurgence in the Brazilian Championship, racking up an impressive five direct goal involvements in the last four matches played. After less than two months at the club, he already has one goal and four assists in just six official appearances for the team.

His level of prominence has led members of the Brazil national team coaching staff to attend the Giant of the Hill’s recent matches. The in-person monitoring is aimed at assessing the player’s talent as part of building a new and renewed cycle of players to represent the country shortly after this year’s highly anticipated World Cup in midyear. International interest in the gem is also nothing new, as he had already attracted attention from Brighton and French clubs when he played for rivals Botafogo in 2025.

Cuiabano celebrates the winning goal against Palmeiras – Photo: Matheus Lima / Vasco da Gama

Multi-million values and the purchase strategy

Given the fast and aggressive rise in foreign interest, Vasco’s board is studying whether to bring forward the major investment so as not to lose its newest star. The current loan agreement with Nottingham Forest includes a purchase option set at 10 million euros (R$ 61 million). If any foreign club submits a formal offer when the transfer window opens, the Rio club has contractual priority to match the bid and secure the player’s registration.

The amount is considered very high for the Brazilian market, but the club is carefully evaluating its budget structure in order to complete the deal permanently, a move that would extend the full-back’s contract until December 31 of the distant 2030 season. Behind the scenes, his perfect adaptation weighs in favor of staying at São Januário. The player is happy with the day-to-day environment and has confided that he does not look favorably on a return to Forest because of the difficulties he faced in England, although he does not hide his strong desire to experience a solid project in Europe in the future.

Cuiabano enjoys a great start at Vasco – Photo: Matheus Lima/Vasco

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