Thiago Neves: Man City to Beat Spurs & Atletico to Exciting £9m Brazilian Star in the Making?
Mark Hughes looks set to seal a swoop for Fluminese’s Brazilian midfielder Thiago Neves Augusto this week according to reports. The attacking midfielder can play centrally or on the left wing and should be available for around £9m.
The 23-year-old has been linked to a number of clubs including AC Milan, Manchester United and Palermo after some excellent performances in his homeland and in the Copa Libertadores. The 5 ft 11 star is renowned for his excellent passing ability and long-range shooting and could provide Martin Petrov and Elano with some stiff competition for a place in the City line-up.
Thiago was named the best player of Brasileiro 2007 by Brazilian sports paper Placar and was also selected in their team of the year. He began his career at Parana before a short stay in Japan with Vegalta Sendai before returning to his homeland with Fluminese.
He has scored 13 goals in 38 League games for the club and played a key role in Fluminese’s 2007 Brasilian cup success as well as scoring a hat-trick in the club’s Copa Libertadores final aggregate defeat to LDU Quito (the South American equivalent of the Champions League).
Neves also won his first cap for his country in a 1-0 friendly win over Sweden in March. He was also part of Brazil’s Olympic squad in Beijing and has been linked to both Atletico Madrid and Tottenham this summer. However, the lure of playing with fellow Brazilians Elano and Jo may well prove too strong to resist for the talented South American.
So would you like the club to sign this exciting young star?? Let’s hear your views.
Tags: AC Milan, Brazil, Fluminese, Man City, Manchester United, Olympics, Thiago Neves, Tottenham
August 26th, 2008 at 13:42
He looks quality, would solve out left wing problems and leave us looking for a defender, anchorman and striker before end of transfer window…not much then!
August 26th, 2008 at 13:52
Spurs are not after Nevez. We have enough attacking mids. We need a DM, F and CB.
August 26th, 2008 at 13:59
the article forgot to mention that he played in the right hand side in olympics
August 26th, 2008 at 14:32
He was played out of position at Olympics he is very much left footed
August 26th, 2008 at 15:05
Man city really don’t need a left footed player. We’ve just tried a light weight south american who looked good on Youtube, Nery Castillo - and he’s off to either Roma or Real Betis after four months where he played about 3 games, looked technically good but wasn’t suited to the physical game (like modric and dos santos?)
August 26th, 2008 at 18:04
There were only Athletico and City in for this player. Spuds always seem to come along later and drive the asking price up. You got Modric and Dos Santos and then you queered the pitch for Arshavin and now you turn up here.
August 26th, 2008 at 19:17
Spurs seem to have the most laughable transfer policy of any club. They literally throw money at clubs for the ‘flavour of the week’ type players. Arshavin did nothing until recently and he’s 27 - not exactly a young prodigy. He wasn’t even that great at the EURO’s and still Spurs like to pretend they’re a top club by expressing their interest in players like him. Then they go and sell players like Keane who were the reason they even had a chance of breaking the top half of the table in the first place. The start to the season they’ve had is about as promising as last years. But keep buying those over-rated players - at least it means shrewd buying clubs like Man City will avoid them!
August 27th, 2008 at 08:25
shrewd man city? Bianchi was shrewd, Samaras was shrewd…rubbish
August 27th, 2008 at 13:05
As a City fan I am chuffed about this. I watched the Copa Libertadores on TV and thought Thiago Neves was the best player on the pitch….and I was thinking how great it would be if City would buy him.
August 27th, 2008 at 15:52
It has been widely publicised Atletico are actively in the hunt for Fluminense’s Thiago Neves. So I think Steve,when he gets back from Olympic duty for Brazil, quite frankly you can forget him.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:41
He’s signing for Hamburg today