Wolves are closing in on the signing of Universidad de Chile winger Dario Osorio with the forward potentially set to join Sasa Kalajdzic in the Premier League, Chilean football reporter Rodrigo Arellano explains.
It’s been some time since there have been any updates regarding this particular deal.
Osorio’s name has all-but disappeared from discussions of late, with Wolverhampton Wanderers completing eye-catching deals for Goncalo Guedes and Matheus Nunes while closing in on a 6ft 7ins giant of a centre-forward who’s scored 22 goals in 39 Bundesliga starts over the last two-and-bit-seasons.
Kalajdzic, per Sky Germany, has completed his medical at Wolves. The Stuttgart striker will join the Molineux outfit for a cool £15 million.
And he could be joined, potentially on deadline day, by a turbo-charged winger nicknamed the ‘new Angel di Maria’ by some. Talk around Osorio might have gone quiet, but that does not mean Wolves are not still plugging away in the background, away from the burning glare of the media microscope.
Wolves close in on Sasa Kalajdzic and Dario Osorio
“We are already in the key hours of the sale of Dario Osorio,” Arellano writes.
“Universidad de Chile will sell 85 per cent of his rights. (These are) key days to close (the deal) with Wolverhampton Wanderers.”
According to TNT Sport, Wolves initially agreed a deal for 18-year-old Osorio back in July. El Cancha say that Mathew Hobbs, the club’s chief scout and head of recruitment, has now travelled to Chile in order to finalise the negotiations over a player who already has one cap for the Chilean national team. Osorio also scored six goals in 20 games at club level last term.
The main obstacle standing in Wolves’ way, it seems, is that Universidad de Chile are holding out for a substantial transfer fee. They also want a sizeable sell-on clause included in Osorio’s contract.
“The largest transfer of Chilean football in more than a decade,” journalist Juan Cristobal Guarello writes in La Tercera.
“Dario Osorio is good; really good. He carries the ball well. He knows how to turn, he has power, technique and strikes hits the ball in an extraordinary way. With the right support and work he can get his full potential.
“There is talk of ten million dollars (£8.5m) no less. A figure that we have not seen since the time of the birth of the golden generation.”
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