Football Transfer News | Cavani signs for Valencia; West Ham sign Paquetá, and more
The Hindu
Valencia signs veteran Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani on a two-year contract, West Ham signs Lucas Paquetá on a five-year deal, and Conte issues another update
Valencia signed veteran Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani on a two-year contract on Monday.
The 35-year-old Cavani had been without a club since his contract with Manchester United expired at the end of last season.
He previously also played for Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli and Palermo.
Cavani was at Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium as the team lost to Atlético Madrid 1-0 in the Spanish league on Monday.
The team coached by Gennaro Gattuso has scored only once in its first three league matches.
West Ham United have signed midfielder Lucas Paquetá from French side Olympique Lyonnais for a club record fee, the Premier League club said on Monday.
Financial details were not disclosed but British media said West Ham paid an initial fee of 36.5 million pounds ($42.76 million) with a potential 14.4 million in add-ons for the Brazilian who signed a five-year deal with a one-year option.
He has worn India’s blues, albeit in an Under-19 World Cup, with K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat as his teammates. He has proudly adorned the Lion’s Crest — the famed Mumbai cricket logo — in all three formats. He has played with Yuvraj Singh, against Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid and has the likes of Rahul and Joe Root in his illustrious list of dismissals. He is also a software developer for an IT giant, based in California. Virtually every middle-class Indian over the last three decades at some stage dreams of being either a cricketer or an IT professional. Saurabh Netravalkar has been combining two dreams, even after relocating to USA to pursue academics at the prestigious Cornell University in 2015.