Bournemouth agree €47m Evanilson deal with Porto

Bournemouth have agreed a deal value within the area of €47million (£40.3m; $51.7m) to signal striker Evanilson from Porto.

The Premier League facet are out there for a ahead to exchange Dominic Solanke after the Englishman accomplished a £65m transfer to Tottenham Hotspur.

Evanilson, 24, has spent the final 4 seasons at Porto, scoring 60 objectives and offering 21 assists in 154 video games for the Portuguese facet.

Bournemouth had additionally focused Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah as a possible Solanke alternative.

Evanilson joined Porto in September 2020 Tombense and the Brazil worldwide broke into the Porto senior crew through the 2021-22 marketing campaign.

Final season, he had his most prolific marketing campaign thus far, scoring 25 objectives and offering seven assists in 42 video games. 4 of these objectives got here within the Champions League as Porto reached the spherical of 16. He has gained six trophies with Porto together with three Portuguese Cups and the Liga Portugal in 2022.

Evanilson’s type led to him incomes his first of his two senior caps for Brazil in June 2024 and he was included in Dorival Junior’s provisional squad for the 2024 Copa America match.

Bournemouth start their Premier League season towards Nottingham Forest on the Metropolis Floor on Saturday.

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