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After the La Liga giants reached an agreement for the Bordeaux winger, Monchi explained why his Serie A team missed a signing
Monchi said the Roma are considering a lawsuit. with the Brazilian instead of Barcelona.
Bordeaux announced Monday an agreement, reported at 38 million euros, had been agreed with the Serie A subject to a medical and personal agreement.
But shortly after the League The statement of one of the two was published, the interest of Barcelona emerged and the La Liga champions have agreed to conclude a contract worth € 41m (£ 36.5m / $ 48m) on Tuesday
. with the Catalan giants and sports director Monchi is frustrated by the way Roma's decision for the 21-year-old player has collapsed.
"I'm really sorry for what happened, but I think we had a full agreement with Bordeaux – a d then offered even more than that to do it again," Monchi told Roma TV .
"President [James] Pallotta made the decision to make the best bid possible, but when trading became an auction, we decided to withdraw from it.If someone wants to come to Rome c & rsquo; Is awesome, but ultimately, he does not want to come to Rome so we do not want them.
"I want to tell our fans that we continue to work hard, working to identify a player who wants to come to Roma and who is equal or even better than Malcom."
"Now, in the club, we look at our options and see if we have a legal case, it is true that nothing has been signed, but there are many messages with the agents and their president. who deserve at least to be evaluated. "
Monchi explained that Roma are unhappy with the way Bordeaux handled the business. "What happened with Malcom is easy to explain, but maybe a little harder to understand," Monchi said. "It's a player we liked a lot from the football point of view," he said. "We started a negotiation with Bordeaux and the player, through his agent, more or less a week ago, after three or four days of intensive negotiations, yesterday around 17:00 [Italian time] we found an agreement, with the agent, with the player and with Bordeaux.
"The agreement was concluded, and we had permission for the player to travel to Rome for medical purposes." A plane was due to depart at 9:00 pm and arrive at At 11:00 pm everything was sorted out and for this reason we were calm and gathered together
"Once we found the agreement with Bordeaux, about 30 minutes later their president, Stéphane Martin, m & # 39; called to tell me that there were a lot of rumors around the agreement. it is better to make an official statement.
"I told him that for us it would not be ideal – since we are listed on the stock exchange and we have to follow certain rules – but he insisted, and finally tweeted to announce
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"For this reason, we have also followed the same statement. Everything was done, but about an hour after the announcement, there were suggestions of a new Barcelona interest.
"It is true that a few days ago I knew that many squads were interested in Malcom – Barcelona because of this, we got the agreement as quickly as possible: this was was done, and I was very surprised when one of the representatives of the player called me to tell me that Bordeaux had withdrawn permission to the player from "I called Martin, and he told me that an offer from Barcelona was better than ours and that if we did not make our offer, we would not have the player.I told him we had an agreement, we had reached the agreement, but he said that nothing had been signed and that, despite the exchange of some documents to sign, nothing could be done. "
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