City set to sign Willyan da Silva Barbosa

Wednesday 2nd April 2014.

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topi ... rrangement

Willyan da Silva Barbosa. Known simply as Willyan for football purposes, is all set to sign up with Cardiff City.

Portuguese newspaper Record report on Tuesday that the 20 year old Brazilian striker will finalise a move to Wales on Wednesday.

Cardiff City will pay €2m for the player but may loan him back to his current club Beira-Mar for another season after the current campaign.

Torino tried to sign the player in January, just months after he made the move to Portugal, but they were knocked back and Willyan got a new contract. He also got a new agent, Omar Scafuro, and it's he who has confirmed the transfer to Record.

Scafuro also told the newspaper that Cardiff owner Vincent Tan sees Portuguese football as somewhere to invest. Record think that the Willyan transfer is the start of some cooperation between Beira-Mar and Cardiff.

They go on to say that Beira-Mar have another excellent young talent named Pité. The 19 year old Portuguese midfielder has been the subject of interest from other clubs in the country including Benfica, Braga and Pacos de Ferreira. Cardiff City would get an advantage if they struck up a relationship along with the signing of Willyan

Hardly a wealth of info but here is his wiki page:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willyan_da_Silva_Barbosa

I know it's only a game but I've been scouting him on football manager for 2 seasons and he's done alright in Spain.

Yes it's only a game

According to fm14 his potential is 4.5*/5 for a prem team.

He's the same height as Lionel Messi - 5' 6" !!


But that's probably where the similarities end!

For the price he can't be too similar

I can't believe no one found yesterday even if it is in Portuguese

http://www.ojogo.pt/Futebol/2a_liga/bei ... id=3790020

Still though, at least he isn't Norweigan or from Manchester United this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBEMaVM3t4

Only video I could find of him at the moment - Scored two goals in this game, his team is in the yellow.

Turns world class on football manager. Very happy with this

Decent signing. A lot of potential. I would like to see us tap in to the Portugese market, would be different to see such foreign players coming to our club

It's been denied by CCFC.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foot ... op-6908931

£1.5m?! He was signed for 250k four months ago! Thankfully the original article is nonsense

After getting excited for the cornelius transfer, and getting let down as he was a complete dud, I will never get excited about a future transfer I don't know until I see him play atleast a few games.

Cornelius cost us over 10 mil. This kid is. Costing us less than 2. I'm excited too see what he got. IF we sign him.

Cornelius cost us over 10 mil. This kid is. Costing us less than 2. I'm excited too see what he got. IF we sign him.

I was excited over velikonja as well and he cost a mil odd I have now learnt my lesson.

Cornelius cost us over 10 mil. This kid is. Costing us less than 2. I'm excited too see what he got. IF we sign him.

I was excited over velikonja as well and he cost a mil odd I have now learnt my lesson.

I'm still excited about him lol

Cornelius cost us over 10 mil. This kid is. Costing us less than 2. I'm excited too see what he got. IF we sign him.

I was excited over velikonja as well and he cost a mil odd I have now learnt my lesson.

I'm still excited about him lol

Cornelius cost us over 10 mil. This kid is. Costing us less than 2. I'm excited too see what he got. IF we sign him.

I was excited over velikonja as well and he cost a mil odd I have now learnt my lesson.

I'm still excited about him lol

He has the same birthday as me. Lol

He has the same birthday as me. Lol

Me too