“Offer what we didn’t have this year”

In agreement with the Uruguayan club and the athlete, Botafogo is awaiting the striker’s arrival in Rio de Janeiro to undergo medical examinations and sign the contract. The negotiation is worth around $3 million (around R$16 million) with the sum of fixed amounts and contractual bonuses for future targets. The news was initially given by ge.

Director of Sports Management at Botafogo, Alessandro Brito has explained what made Botafogo look to hire Villaba. Without confirming the agreement, the director said that the idea is for the team to once again have players with the characteristics of others who have already left the team, such as Luiz Henrique and Júnior Santos.

— We are really in negotiations. This hasn’t happened yet, but it’s one of our goals. He’s a winger who plays on the right side and we understand that he’s an athlete who can offer what we didn’t have this year, which is a little depth, attacking in space. We have had this a lot in recent years, from Júnior Santos (Atlético-MG), Luiz Henrique (Zenit-RUS), the other Luis Henrique (Inter Milan-ITA), several players who played in this position and who had these characteristics of speed, depth and offensive space. It was on this basis that we set the goal of bringing in someone with this profile — said Brito in an interview with ESPN.