Roma sporting director Monchi says the club are ‘considering legal action’ after Malcom chose to join Barcelona.
Roma appeared to have Malcom all wrapped up, with the former Bordeaux attacker due in the Italian capital on Monday evening to complete his transfer, but he ultimately signed for Barca after they came calling at the last moment.
“What happened with Malcom is easy to explain but complicated to understand,” explained Monchi at Robin Olsen’s official unveiling.
“He was a player we liked a lot and had the profile we were looking for. We started negotiations with Bordeaux and his agent.
“After a few days of work, we found an agreement at five yesterday. The agreement had been found with his agent and Bordeaux.
“The French side had given permission to the player to leave, and he was due to arrive at 11 last night.
“We were calm and convinced. Thirty minutes after the agreement with Bordeaux, my President called me telling me that it was better for them to make an official statement about the agreement.
“For us it was better, not because we’re quoted on the stock exchange but because they insisted and did so.
“After that, we were forced to do so too. An hour later, rumours of Barcelona’s interest started doing the rounds.
“I knew there were so many teams interested in Malcom, including Barcelona, and it’s for that reason we found an agreement as soon as possible.
“My surprise is when one of his representatives called me and told me that Bordeaux had blocked his trip to Rome.
“At that point I called the Bordeaux President and he told me a better offer from Barca had arrived and that we had to at least match their offer.
“I told him we had an agreement, but he told me we hadn’t signed anything. I called Pallotta and he told me that we could make a higher offer, against my opinion.
“I called the president and told him we could make a better offer. The President said he needed the documents signed with the new offer and, when I sent it to him, he said Malcom would arrive the day after.
“At 11, his agent told me that there’d be a meeting to fix everything, but after midday they told me we had to make another offer because Barcelona was pushing.
“Therefore, I said ‘that’s it’ because I didn’t want to go into an auction. Yesterday we did it because of our President’s wish, but we can’t go any further.
“We’re now considering whether to take legal action.”
Chima92
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Players who betray the trust of a certain club always end up frustrated n Confused at the end. Dont worry Roma. Malcom will be made Useless by Barca Soon as they have successfully done with Dembele who also Went against his forma club dortmund. Until these young Misleaded players Apologize n set things right with Trusts they have broken they will never Be at their best form again! u cant cheat Nature!
okotokro99
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Haters will say that Malcom will end up on the bench but will not say that Ceballos was the best player in last year U21 championship and sign for Madrid and he end up on the bench they all seasons the same thing is going to happen to their new signing Vinicius you are coming to talk about Barcelona
nosdksyz
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Willian had Tottenham medical before switching to Chelsea
Iyanda1759
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So what should Man united do to Chelsea when they signed John Mikel Obi from their very nose, he already trained at Old trafford for some time and had several meetings with Alex Ferguson, he even wore Manchester United jersey at press conferences, signed pre-contract documents but got tied down to a contract by Chelsea at the very last moment before he could sign a contract for Man United
Yunekmprs
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Peoples are so wicked with FC Barcelona. why didn't u pay the same amount the FC Barcelona paid? Real Madrid was responsable for Neymar been bought too high by FC Barcelona. they made the deal untransferable to FC Barcelona. did FC Barcelona goes to court ? so why AS Roma are crying want to go to FIFA...u signed a player without agrement been signed. without a writing papers been signed with the two party. Any case u don't know ! Man City hijacked Robiniho from Chelsea.
buockmt
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Any right thinking player would rather choose Fc Barcelona that Roma, so let Roma bid it. He's gone n probably never coming in the future. As Bordeaux President said they never signed any agreement with Roma before deciding to instead sell Malcom to Barça. Well, any judicial action taken by Roma will be a mare waste of time.
okotokro99
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This 😂 😂 😂 ❤️😍❤️
XxKleit12xX
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For everyone who attacks roma thinking whatever. They had an agreement with the player, his agent and the club bordeaux itself, an agreement is an agreement you can't change things at the last second.