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Brentford and Leicester explore a potential free move for £25m-rated Shakthar Donetsk winger Tete with FIFA under pressure to grant foreign players in Ukraine and Russia transfers away from the warring countries

 

Brentford and Leicester City are exploring whether they can sign Shakhtar Donetsk winger Tete this week.

The £25million-rated Brazilian wants to cancel his contract with his Ukrainian club as the war with Russia continues to rage and football is suspended.

FIFA have already announced that foreign players in Ukraine and Russia can leave on loan as long as they make a decision before April 7.

Shakhtar have 12 Brazilians registered and all are looking to find other clubs at least on a temporary basis.

However, talks are being held by some about annulling contracts amid calls from players union FIFPRO who say FIFA should take a stronger stance to protect players' welfare.

Tete and teammate Dodo are among those looking at permanent moves and Premier League sides have been approached to see if they can take them into their squads.

Early proposals include allowing them to train with prospective clubs while the Premier League determines whether to allow signings to be made now rather than hold off until the summer.

There is a concern that giving permanent signings a green light in March would be ethically wrong as rivals have already filled their squad quotas meeting the deadline in January.

Tete has played 28 games this season and scored ten goals. Though has still to be capped by Brazil at full level, he has two U23 caps and has trained with the national side.

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5 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

Can we swap with Perez?

I know he’s not been great for us but I wouldn’t want to stick him in the middle of a war zone! 😱

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23 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

If we pull this off, there's only one undisputed ITK on here (it's not me - I'm merely a purveyor of flair and the messenger)

Wait. Is this the one?!

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31 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

If we pull this off, there's only one undisputed ITK on here (it's not me - I'm merely a purveyor of flair and the messenger)

Sam Martin says hi.

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1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Yes sir

Have I missed something?

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17 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Have I missed something?

Congerton's flat got cleared again and someone found a poster of TETE on his wall and LEE WOZ ERE

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I've just discovered that Tete means "heat" in French so it's a hot oui from me.

 

(no I don't care that French is irrelevant here, but it just works, okay)

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Just now, UniFox21 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is entirely fair. You'd imagine a loan would work for all parties. At least for now anyway. Takes money off Shakhtar's wage bill, gives Tete a lifeline out of a warzone and bolsters our squad.

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11 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

At the moment with everything going on just bringing him in on loan would be a good thing to do even if we can't play him

 

Let him train with us, allow him to keep up his fitness and being able to train in a club environment, we can have a good look at him, and possibly even get a run out in some under 23 games?

 

Once things hopefully settle down he will then have been here for a bit which could make any permanent deal in the future easier

That would be logical. Get him on loan as a safe haven to train and integrate with the squad. There's a good chance he can leave Shakhtar on a free in the summer and we'd be all over that.

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55 minutes ago, CloudFox said:

That is entirely fair. You'd imagine a loan would work for all parties. At least for now anyway. Takes money off Shakhtar's wage bill, gives Tete a lifeline out of a warzone and bolsters our squad.

...I can't see how that could work, how is having him on loan or him having a cancelled contract going to benefit us!!!

Surely we are not going to bel allowed to play him as we already have our squad listed, it would not be fair on other clubs to recruit this way (even though I suppose they also have the opportunity to pick him up as well).

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4 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...I can't see how that could work, how is having him on loan or him having a cancelled contract going to benefit us!!!

Surely we are not going to bel allowed to play him as we already have our squad listed, it would not be fair on other clubs to recruit this way (even though I suppose they also have the opportunity to pick him up as well).

Can get a better look at him in training, and him being comfortable here could make any permanent future deal easier

 

And like CloudFox mentioned, it benefits Shakhtar and would also massively help out Tete himself

 

Even if we can't play him it would be a benefit to us, him, and possibly Shakhtar in the short term.

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7 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...I can't see how that could work, how is having him on loan or him having a cancelled contract going to benefit us!!!

Surely we are not going to bel allowed to play him as we already have our squad listed, it would not be fair on other clubs to recruit this way (even though I suppose they also have the opportunity to pick him up as well).

I see it as a 'try before you buy' situation. If he's allowed to play in the PL or ECL, great. If not, he's on something like £10k a week I believe, so hardly an issue for us to cover for 2-3 months.

 

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