Nottingham Forest have agreed a deal for Cuiabano from Botafogo, with the left-back expected to sign a five-year contract at the City Ground.
It is understood that Forest paid to have an option for the 22-year-old Brazilian earlier in the summer and have now exercised it, beating Brighton to his signature. Cuiabano is expected to arrive in the UK on Sunday to complete his medical.
With the goalkeeper John Victor – in whom West Ham had rekindled their interest after backing out of a deal earlier in the summer – also on his way to the east Midlands after agreeing a four-year deal last week, that will make it four players who have been purchased from Botafogo in this window following the arrivals of Jair Cunha and Igor Jesus. They are owned by the former Crystal Palace co-owner John Textor.
Fulham are reported to closing in on a club-record £34.6m deal for the Shakhtar Donetsk winger Kevin. The 22-year-old Brazilian’s fee is expected to surpass the club’s record £27m they paid for Emile Smith Rowe from Arsenal last summer.
Manchester United are reportedly making a late move for the Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Martínez and are preparing a £40m offer for Argentina’s No 1. A move earlier in the summer had stalled over Martínez’s £200,000-a-week wages.
