Freddy Adu to Benfica for Less than £1million

[Bender]

Real Salt Lake have confirmed Freddy Adu has been given permission to discuss a move to Benfica.

The United States international has been granted the opportunity to clinch a transfer to Europe after being left out of his club's MLS game with New England Revolution on Saturday.

Adu is now on his way to Portugal to negotiate personal terms, although his current club appear resigned to the teenager signing for Benfica.

"Major League Soccer and Real Salt Lake have given permission to Freddy Adu to travel to Europe to continue discussions with Portuguese club Benfica," read a statement from head coach Jason Kreis.

"This is certainly a scenario that does not surprise us, and we would like to thank Freddy for his time here and wish him the best of luck.

"Our organisation will continue to focus and concentrate on the second half of the MLS season, with our recent success against Everton and Boca Juniors serving as a springboard towards a fresh start.

"There are a lot of new faces on this team who believe in each other, and as a result think we have now begun to move in the right direction."

A fee of $2million (£985,000) has been agreed for the midfielder, who is expected to sign a five-year contract with Benfica.

[bazza76]

IF he is as good as people think, and is available for that amount, surely judging my the money we have spent on young players, we should have an interest at that price.

[NICKZS]

IF he is as good as people think, and is available for that amount, surely judging my the money we have spent on young players, we should have an interest at that price.

He's pretty **** from what I have seen of him.

[BrooklynRed]

Too small... watched him for years. He is tricky and quick but too small for an attacking midfielder, which is his preferred position. He has constantly been played out of position by his MLS teams because he is too small to play among men in the midfield; he doesn't tackle and is more a winger in the middle of the park. When he plays on the U-20's, he is among other kids and is able to impose himself on the game with his tricks, etc, but he will be found out at the next level unless he gets stronger or moves to the wing.

[red g]

IF he is as good as people think, and is available for that amount, surely judging my the money we have spent on young players, we should have an interest at that price.

but is freddy a young player ?

[Imy]

is he the next Cherno Samba?

[Marky]

He's ****e.

[Maestro]

Too small... watched him for years. He is tricky and quick but too small for an attacking midfielder, which is his preferred position. He has constantly been played out of position by his MLS teams because he is too small to play among men in the midfield; he doesn't tackle and is more a winger in the middle of the park. When he plays on the U-20's, he is among other kids and is able to impose himself on the game with his tricks, etc, but he will be found out at the next level unless he gets stronger or moves to the wing.

He's also very one-footed, IIRC.

[Parm]

Manure had a sniff at him and didnt take it any further, perhaps he is just a CM legend in the making?

[Ron_Mexico]

what happened freddy? used to be you were going to play for "either man u or chelsea." he'll get sent back to MLS on loan within 6 months

[desertscouser]

IF he is as good as people think, and is available for that amount, surely judging my the money we have spent on young players, we should have an interest at that price.

He's clearly rubbish. Ever since everyone was raving about him 2 yrs ago I had a gut feeling that he would eventually end up at Tranmere fc. Nothing has thus far changed my mind.

[kurtangle01]

He's really bad. I'm surprised that someones even willing to pay £1m for his services. He wouldn't get a game for our reserves from what I've seen of him.

[NIred1]

He's also very one-footed, IIRC.

Never really seen much of him, are we talking Adriano one footed here?

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Goes to show he's probably not rated.........

[hertsred]

I watched him when I lived in DC. He's small. He won't work for the team. His positional play is horrible. He can't tackle. he can do some nifty ball tricks, and he isn't the slowest player on the field. But...

It was all HYPE. plus from the rumours I heard he's actually two or three years older than he claims to be. His Ghanaian birth certificate is rumoured to be dodgy, alledgedly (in case any lawyers are reading this).