Cerro Porteño director: Talks for Vegetti ongoing, deal tricky

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·8 January 2026

Cerro Porteño director: Talks for Vegetti ongoing, deal tricky

Cerro Porteño has opened talks with Vasco for the signing of forward Pablo Vegetti. The information was confirmed by the Paraguayan club's director of football, Enrique Biedermann, who described the negotiation as complicated.

“He is a player we are talking to, but it is a difficult negotiation. We are in negotiations,” Biedermann stated in an interview with the Paraguayan channel ABC Deportes.

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According to the director, the main obstacles to advancing the deal are the high salary of the striker and the player's strong identification with Vasco. Vegetti, 37, has a contract with the Rio de Janeiro club until the end of 2026.

The forward is a request from coach Jorge Bava, the current manager of Cerro Porteño, for the transfer window. Despite the interest, the Paraguayan board recognizes that the operation will not be simple. “It’s difficult, but not impossible,” the director emphasized.

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Photo: Matheus Lima/Vasco.

Contacted by ge, Vasco has not officially confirmed receiving a proposal for the player at the time of publication.

Vegetti ended the 2025 season as the top scorer in Brazilian football, with 27 goals. A recent idol of the club, the Argentine has scored 60 goals in three seasons with the cross-maltese shirt, being the second-highest scorer for Vasco in the 21st century, only behind Romário, who scored 120 times.

Despite the impressive numbers, the forward lost his place in the starting team during the second half of the season under the command of Fernando Diniz. At one point, he went 18 matches without scoring, returning to the net with the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Fluminense in the first leg of the Copa do Brasil semifinals.

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