Portuguese side Benfica have signed Facundo “Chucky” FERREYRA from Shakhtar Donetsk. The transfer fee is reported to be around €20 million.
Bem-vindo, Ferreyra! pic.twitter.com/QKAns78Y1Q
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) June 6, 2018
The former Velez Sarsfield striker has been playing for the Ukrainian side since 2013 (including a brief loan with Newcastle United). Last season he recorded his best ever campaign for them, notching 30 goals in all competition. His goals helped Shakhtar in clinching the Ukrainian Premier League and Cup double for the second successive season.
FERREYRA will be following in the footsteps of an illustrious list of Argentine players who have played for the Eagles such as Pablo AIMAR, Javier SAVIOLA, Angel DI MARIA, Eduardo SALVIO and Nicolas GAITAN, among others.
Apart from SALVIO, he will be joined by German CONTI and Franco CERVI who will be wearing the famous red shirt of Lisbon next season.
In transfers theme:
two young and talented CBs to Italy:
Nehuen Paz from Newell’s to Bologna
Cristian Romero from Belgrano to Genoa
the second is young and talented like Foyth. Once both in U-20 team. Maybe together in senior NT in future.
With Conti it’s already three new center backs in Europe.
If sampoali is continuing we will likely to see mammana and foyth than Conti.
We need more “Argentine gangs” in top European clubs for future.. as of now Teams like Benfica & Inter only have helped.. it’s a shame that Barcelona couldn’t find an Argentine pair for messi… Even real Madrid had a Higuain -Maria duo in their career best..
Messi Mascherano