Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 4:42 PM• Jonathan van Haaster • Last update: 16:45

Tonny Vilhena faces a move to US Salernitana. That reports the usually reliable transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio. According to the journalist, Vilhena is rented from Espanyol and the Italians have negotiated an option to buy. It is striking that Vilhena has only been under contract with the club from Barcelona since this summer, but is now allowed to leave.

According to the journalist, the 27-year-old midfielder will be medically examined in Italy on Wednesday. Technical director Morgan De Sanctis has agreed a rental amount of three hundred thousand euros with Espanyol. The purchase option would be about three and a half million euros. Di Marzio describes Vilhena as a ‘high level’ purchase. The ex-Feyenoord player can look forward to playing together with Franck Ribéry, among others, who is also under contract in the coastal city.

Vilhena may not be the only player with an Eredivisie background to join Salernitana. Friday reported il Corriere dello Sport that the club from Salerno is interested in AZ striker Vangelis Pavlidis. Salernitana would have about ten million euros for the Greek and want to make him the highest-paid player of the selection. Salernitana has had a new owner in Danilo Iervolino since January this year, who has expressed great ambitions for the club. The first success was already achieved by not being relegated to Serie B last season against all odds.

In any case, Vilhena brings the necessary experience with her. The ex-Feyenoord player has played twenty times in the Champions League, including preliminary rounds, and also played 22 times in the Europa League. Vilhena also has fifteen international matches for the Dutch to his name. In June 2016, he made his debut in the friendly match against Austria. The midfielder left Feyenoord after 258 games in 2019 for FK Krasnodar. After two and a half seasons in Russia, Vilhena moved on a rental basis to Espanyol during the winter break of the 2021/22 season, which took him over permanently this summer. Yet the Spaniards want to get rid of him again.


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