Sergi Canós, a midfielder for Brentford, has declined to join Anderlecht and has informed the Bees that he will only join Valencia this summer.
According to Cadena SER, Canós has violated the agreement Brentford and Anderlecht established by refusing to make the transfer.
They claim that the Nules winger has “already informed” Brentford that he will only leave London this summer in order to join Valencia, a team that has long been regarded as his dream team.
He has stated that he will see out his contract’s final year and leave on a free transfer in the summer if that transfer cannot be completed.
That’s left Brentford in a tough situation as Thomas Frank does not want the player in his squad, as was shown last season with the decision to let him join Olympiakos on loan in January.
The club activated an option to extend his contract by a year this summer as they aimed to get a transfer fee for him but the player’s ‘refusal’ to move to a destination other than Valencia is now causing them issues.
Canós has already ‘reached an agreement’ in principle on a three-year deal with the Spanish side and Brentford are now waiting for Valencia to call and ‘find the formula’ that suits both parties.
At the moment the two sides are separated as Brentford want a fee, but Valencia would prefer not to pay and instead give the Bees sell-on clauses and various other bonuses down the line.
Cadena state the same, explaining that Valencia need to offer ‘some gesture of compensation’ to the Premier League side while Canós needs to ‘forgive a small amount’ of his contract to make the move happen.
Further negotiations are needed, then, but his ultimatum to Brentford will surely see an agreement being reached at some point this summer.
