President confirms Bournemouth and Luton were ‘options’ for player – But insists no official offers ever made
Bournemouth and Luton were options for Ecuadorian youngster Óscar Zambrano, but neither have made official offers for him.
That?s according to the president of the Quito University Sports League Isaac Alvarez, who has insisted he personally never received any offers for the highly rated midfielder.
Zambrano has found himself surrounded be speculation over a transfer since last summer, when Luton first showed an interest in him.
That never came to anything, and he remained at LDU Quito until the January transfer window, when transfer rumours began to surface again.
This time it was Bournemouth at the forefront, with it claimed that they had managed to secure a ?5m deal to sign him and would be doing so quickly.
That claim led to a series of back-and-forth disagreements between the player?s agent and various people involved in the potential transfer, with Zambrano?s representative insisting that nothing was going on and the other side insisting he was blocking the move to the Premier League. Ultimately nothing came of it as Bournemouth failed to get their man and Zambrano remained where he was, with it later claimed his agent would prefer to send him to Germany anyway.
“A lot was said about him, in recent months my phone received many calls, and I did not answer, because at that time I was not in charge of player transfers,? he said.
?An official proposal signed by someone had arrived from Óscar, I never saw it and that I have maintained that.
“An official propo...
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