Porto agree £40.2m transfer with Bournemouth for Brazil striker – report

Brazil striker Evanilson will have a medical on Thursday after Bournemouth agreed a club-record £40.2 million transfer deal for the 24-year-old with Porto, according to a report.

Bournemouth will pay £31.7m with potential add-ons of £8.5m for the Portuguese club’s top scorer last season, BBC Sport has said.

The Cherries sold their leading marksman in 2023/24, Dominic Solanke, to Tottenham last week in a move worth up to £65m.

🇧🇷 It had to be the hat-trick hero. Well played, Evanilson 👏👏#UCLPOTW | @PlayStationEU pic.twitter.com/msrS6G80me

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) October 27, 2023

Evanilson: Porto to Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola has made Evanilson his eighth signing of the summer as he bids to build on a promising first season in charge which resulted in a 12th-placed finish.

Iraola may have been concerned by his side’s defensive record – West Ham were the only team outside of the relegation zone to concede more – but a run of six wins and two draws from 10 games between February and April will have given him hope of finishing higher in 2024/25.

Solanke was responsible for 19 of their 54 top-flight goals, with their total fewer than any team above them and two teams lower in the table.

Iraola was linked to a move for Arsenal forward Eddie Nketiah but now appears to have turned to Evanilson, breaking a transfer record set when Jefferson Lerma joined for £25m from Levante in 2018.

Thank you AFCB❤️. pic.twitter.com/CvNjE3WSk7

— Dom Solanke (@DomSolanke) August 10, 2024

Evanilson stats

Evanilson was the only Porto player to reach double figures in the Liga Portugal last season, finishing on 13 goals and four assists.

Porto signed him from Brazilian club Tombense for around £7.5m in 2020, and he went on to score 14 times in 30 top-flight appearances in 2021-22.

He contributed seven goals and six assists in 2022-23 and scored one goal in 21 appearances across the Uefa Champions League and Europa League in his first three seasons at the club.

Those figures in Europe improved last season when Evanilson scored four times and produced one assist in seven Champions League games.

All of those goals came against Royal Antwerp during the group stage, including a hat-trick as part of a 4-1 win in Belgium last October.

The Selecao have handed Evanilson two caps, with his competitive senior debut coming as a substitute in their defeat to Uruguay in the quarter-finals of the 2024 Copa America.