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Ass: Barcelona wants to sign a 16-year-old player who left the team. Porto threatens to break off diploma

6:08pm, 14 June 2025Football

June 14 According to the Spanish media Ass, if Barcelona signs 16-year-old Cardoso Varella, Porto will cut off all levels of relations with Barcelona.

To understand the ins and outs of this dispute, we must trace back to the situation when the player left Porto. Cardoso Varella was once a young genius in Porto's youth training camp. Many important European teams are interested in him, and Barcelona and Manchester City are interested in him. Porto wanted to renew his contract but failed to reach an agreement with his agent and the player disappeared after that.

Then Cardoso Varella appeared in Croatia. His agent Andy Barra is also the agent of Joan Garcia and Olmo. The agent brought Varrera to NK Dinamo Odranski Obrez in the Croatian Division.

Porto believes that the purpose of this operation is to find a "transfer club" to temporarily settle down before selling the players to the giants. Porto and the Portuguese Football Association filed a complaint with FIFA, which blocked any transfers of the player until the ban was later lifted. Porto has always insisted that the relevant parties took advantage of the players' families' financial difficulties and "forcedly took him away".

Cardoso Varella has signed with Dynamo Zagreb and participated in the competition normally. Barcelona has never lost interest in the player, and Deco was negotiating his transfer with Andy Bala yesterday. Barcelona will pay a transfer fee of €5 million, which may amount to €15 million under certain additional terms. It was this negotiation that angered Porto, who believed that the player's farce in Croatia was ultimately just to get him to join Barcelona.

If Barcelona sign Cardoso Varella, they may be in huge trouble. According to Portuguese media reports, Porto chairman Boas has issued a request to the Barcelona club and the Spanish Football Association to confirm whether Barcelona will obtain Varella's ownership. Porto threatens to cut off all levels of ties with Barcelona and will file a lawsuit.

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