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Carvalho and Martins seek to terminate Sporting contracts

Lyndon Lloyd | Monday, 11 June 2018 38comments  |  Jump to last
Reported Everton targets William Carvalho and Gelson Martins, together with Bruno Fernandes, have become the latest players to inform Sporting CP of their intent to terminate their contracts with the club.

Rui Patricio and Daniel Podence have already begun the legal proceedings to cancel their employment with the Lisbon club following the astonishing training ground attack in which Sporting players were set upon by supporters.

It looked as though Carvalho, the player most likely to sign for the Blues this summer — Martins has also been linked but appears closer to joining Arsenal based on speculation — was going to remain contracted to Sporting rather than go the route of terminating but that is no longer the case.

If Carvalho is successful, he would be free to negotiate terms with another club and move as a free agent.

Amid allegations that the attack on the players was instigated by club president Bruno de Carvalho, in his letter to Sporting, Patricio cited the club's failure to protect player safety and that he now feared for his life as just cause for him terminating his contract.

A Bola are reporting that all three players will reverse their decision if De Carvalho resigns in the next seven days.

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