Fernando Urbano warns Sporting over star sale: no big-money deal | OneFootball

Pote’s good form (goals against Bodo/Glimt and Alverca) comes at a decisive stage of the season and also under market scrutiny, with Aston Villa and Leverkusen keeping an eye on him. For Fernando Urbano, a sale of the Portuguese international will not be very profitable for Sporting.

“I don’t think that, also because of his age, Pote will become one of those players who brings Sporting a multimillion deal, and I have doubts whether he will leave. He is one of those players who has the profile to finish his career at Sporting,” he said on a Bola TV programme.

The A Bola journalist compared the forward to the situation of Morten Hjulmand. “I don’t believe Sporting will make a deal like the one they could make with Hjulmand; that one, yes, I think could leave, in principle at the end of the season, and things are already well defined,” he said.

It is worth remembering that in a World Cup year, with his place looking well on track, the Portuguese international is once again attracting outside interest, with Aston Villa and Bayer Leverkusen continuing to monitor the player.

This season, for Sporting, Pedro Gonçalves - valued at 28 million euros - has made 29 appearances. In the 2,096 minutes played, the footballer, who is protected by an €80 million release clause until 2030, has already scored 14 goals and provided seven assists for his teammates.

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