Wellington lost his position due to poor performances even before he had the last serious injury. São Paulo signed Denilson and Fabricio because they thought Wellington weren't up to the task. He had no problem regarding his contract, he had his contract renewed on his good spell a couple years ago, his contract is only now expiring again. He was never benched over political things, only poor techinical performances. Wellington recently played against Atlético Mineiro on São Paulo's elimination of Taça libertadores and was eaten alive by Ronaldinho Gaúcho. SP management got fed up with him once more, the coach relegated him to fourth option, as I've mentioned before, simply because, according to the president, Juvenal Juvencio, Wellington is frightned to play the big games and make a lot of mistakes. Wellington was lucky enough because Fabricio had 2 serious injuries (wasted all the season) and Denilson, the starter, was having problems to renew his loaning spell from arsenal, that's when he played, awfully, and got injured.
The second point where you are wrong: we already offered 8 M euros for the player 1 year ago, according to João Paulo de jesus Lopes, SP's sporting director and that offer was refused. That offer means signing only 40% of the player. São Paulo wants 14 M euros for 40% of the player. Even if we signed him, we would still have to pay more money to 2 other clubs, Atletico madrid an Shaktar, that has their share of the player.
We're talking about signing Naingollan fully for 15 M euros, and wellington's 40% for 14 Euros. That's not a bright idea, don't you agree?
I'll say it again here what I said in other inter forum , I apologize for how long this comment will be, but I hope it makes my opinion on the matter clearer:
About Wellington
Yes, it's true that he has had 2 major Knee injuries and has failed to impress after the second one. Actually, he was already above average even at his prime, but São Paulo was playing well a few years ago and Wellington kindda just bonded in...although he made a lot of mistakes, it was passable, because the team was winning. Now the team is struggling and Welling is 4th option on the DM deppartment (Behind Denilson, Rodrigo Caio and Maicon)
People are seeing a video and getting excited, but let me ask you guys something: How awesome would Gargano be if you edit a video with all the ball he has stolen in Inter?
Gather up all the Gargano's defensive skills and he would look like the new misture of Simeone and Maldini. See him play a full match and you'll see that Gargano has his flaws..... see my point?
I mean, just for curiosity, São Paulo's president, Juvenal Juvencio, is known in Brazil for over selling shit players for clueless european teams. Let's just hope we are not one of those teams.
Curiosity number 2: Denilson, (Former arsenal DM) was a free agent a few weeks ago when his first loan with São Paulo ended and his Arsenal contract ended as well), São Paulo got him for free. Do you guys think it's a good thing to pay 14 m euros for 40% of his back up?