Atletico offers €23 million for Aguero (29 Apr 2006 16:27 GMT)
Atletico Madrid is reportedly set to sign 17-year-old Independiente striker Sergio Aguero for about €23 million (US$28.9 million).
Spanish sports daily Marca said Friday that Atletico offered the Argentine prodigy a six-year contract.
Marca said Aguero has already been courted by European clubs including FC Barcelona, Villarreal and Bayern Munich. He would join countrymen Leo Franco, Maxi Rodriguez, Luciano Galletti and Ariel Ibagaza at Atletico.
That is a claim flatly denied by Independiente president Julio Comparada who is adamant no deal has been agreed with the Spaniards.
"I deny totally what has been said in Spain in the last hours," Comparada told Todo Noticias. "Nobody can say that negotiations have been agreed. I am very surprised about what has been said in Spain, I don't know the reasons. I have spoken to the president of Atletico Madrid a while ago and nothing has been agreed. When we end our participation in the Torneo Clausura we are going to analyse the different proposals that we have and then we will see how this continues. But at the moment Aguero still belongs to Independiente".
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