Rome wants Tiquinho, offered 20 million to Porto

Roma are looking for a striker, and would have offered 20 million euros to Porto for the Brazilian striker Tiquinho Soares, last season's rival of the Giallorossi in the Champions League double challenge (he also scored a goal in the match ended 3-1) The news, given by some Portuguese media, it has been confirmed by sources close to the footballer's family in the state of Paraiba. It should be specified that the player has long requested the Portuguese passport to become a community, but has not yet received the document and this is an obstacle to the transfer. In any case, it seems a more feasible deal for next summer than for the winter 'window' of the transfer market, but the parties would be at work.
Tiquinho is the Dragons' striker, with whose shirt he scored 58 goals in 118 appearances in official matches, and in January 2017 he arrived at Porto from another team in the Lusitanian championship, the Madeira Nacional. He has a contract until June 2021, with a termination clause of 40 million, or twice what Rome would have offered. In the current season the 29-year-old Tiquinho has already scored 13 goals in 26 games, and for him Porto has refused in the last few months an offer of 23 million euros from China. It must be said that the player would not have liked this destination, while the prospect of going to Rome, according to some of his family members, attracts him.