Overview

• Sporting agreed a loan with an obligation to buy but missed the registration cut-off by seconds, causing the transfer to collapse.
• Sporting president Frederico Varandas said final documents arrived around 11:45 p.m., leaving too little time to validate and upload them before midnight.
• The proposed package reported by multiple outlets included a loan fee of about £3.9m and a buy obligation near £13.5m.
• Varandas also said Forest received a €19m offer from Botafogo earlier in the window that Jota rejected.
• With Saudi Arabia and Turkey still open, talkSPORT reports Neom SC are preparing a loan-with-option proposal, while Forest are understood to prefer a permanent sale.