Midfielder Varandas wanted at Sporting set for €6m Braga move | OneFootball

Demir Tiknaz is very close to joining Braga, with negotiations between the Minho club and Besiktas making significant progress in recent days. The agreement for the transfer of the 21-year-old Turkish midfielder is in a very advanced stage, after the player had already been linked to other Portuguese football clubs, including Sporting.

On the table is a proposal around six million euros, according to the newspaper 'A Bola', which also foresees that Besiktas will retain a percentage of the player's economic rights, between 10 and 20%. The player is set to sign a contract with a minimum duration of three and a half years, valid until 2029.

Trained at the Istanbul club, the midfielder has caps for Turkey's youth teams and has already debuted for the main team. His first experience outside his country happened last season, precisely in Portugal, playing for Rio Ave, where he stood out with 33 games played, four goals, and two assists.

Braga kept the player under observation and decided to move forward with his signing in this market, with the process well underway for the midfielder to be officially announced in the coming days as a reinforcement for the warriors of Minho. In the last summer market, Frederico Varandas believed that the young player could be a good solution to fill the probable departure of Hidemasa Morita.

In the current 2025/26 sports season, wearing the Besiktas jersey, Demir Tiknaz - valued at 6 million euros - played 16 games for the Istanbul giant, in which he contributed with one goal and one assist over 624 minutes of play.

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