Olympique Lyonnais will announce the arrival of a recruit from Ukraine this Thursday. This is Head, the Brazilian attacking midfielder of Shakhtar Donetsk.
The secret was well kept, but if Olympique Lyonnais decided to meet with great fanfare this Thursday at the start of the afternoon, it was for a major change in the workforce. The day after the announcement of Maxence Caqueret’s serious injury, OL will use the possibility offered by FIFA to recruit a player from the Ukrainian league to complete their squad. Due to the war in Ukraine, the football authorities allow the players present in the stopped championship to continue their career elsewhere and without compensation, football obviously no longer being the priority for the Ukrainians. This possibility was offered for a few more days to European clubs, and OL will try to energize their group with an external contribution to seek European places at the end of the season.
Final details with OL settled
???? See you this Thursday afternoon from 2:30 p.m. for a press conference
in the presence of @JM_AulasVincent Ponsot and Bruno Cheyrou.???????????? #OLPLAY ???? https://t.co/szeffqZvpc pic.twitter.com/jiMX8OSNlr
— Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) March 31, 2022
In the Ukrainian league, several players have interested OL in recent days. Bruno Cheyrou therefore set to work, notably establishing contacts with Manor Solomon, the Israeli international, or David Neres, the Brazilian international from Donetsk. It will be an offensive player, but neither of the two a priori. According to Portuguese journalist Jorge Nicolas, who works for the Yahoo portal, OL managed to convince Tetê to sign for three months, with an option for at least one additional year to sign in July. His representative, Pablo Bueno, was seen in Lyon and the final details were settled on Wednesday, which explains why Jean-Michel Aulas took the liberty of announcing a press conference for this Thursday afternoon. The player and his agent have also started following Lyon posts on social media, which is always a big 2.0 clue for future transfers.
OL grids Leicester, Milan and Benfica
As mentioned here, OL have been eyeing Ukraine for a few days. It shouldn’t and David Neres but it could be Shakhtar Donetsk Brazilian Tété.https://t.co/svSjS0fP9Q
— Sebastien Denis (@sebnonda) March 31, 2022
A rather attacking midfielder, Tetê has been evolving since 2019 at Shakhtar, where he arrived against 15 million euros from Grêmio. Now 22, the Brazilian was very popular this spring, since Benfica and AC Milan were eyeing him, as were AS Monaco and Leicester. A rookie who will necessarily do good for an OL who are struggling to be as enterprising and effective offensively as in the past, even if obviously, Tête will not be immediately in his best shape after a month of forced break
