Decision made. FC Porto already knows what it will do with Zaidu

Zaidu Sanusi finishes contract at the end of this 2026/27 sports season, which means that he can commit to any other club, the ‘zero cost’, as of next January. A situation that, however, FC Porto's SAD intends to avoid at all costs.

In this sense, according to the Tuesday edition of the newspaper The Bola, the direction led by André Villas-Boas will already have put into action negotiations with a view to the renewal between both parties, and at this moment, the feeling that reigns in the Stadium of the Dragon is optimism... although with some caution.

This is because we still need to define some details of the new bond of the Nigerian international, among them, the validity it will have. At this time, everything points to the extension of two or three years (i.e. until June 2029 or 2030), because it celebrated the 29th anniversary last June.

Nevertheless, this process is in an advanced state, so the expectation of both sides is that an understanding can be reached in a relatively short time, so that over the coming weeks it should speed up significantly.

A bad news for... Leeds United, which was recently pointed out by the British sports press as the club most interested in the services of the left-hand side, is ‘torting’ so that the current circumstances would remain, in order to be able to take it, in the next winter transfer market, to the ‘balance price’.

Farioli priority option

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Zaidu Sanusi took the first steps in the world of football at the service of Jega United, moving to Portugal in 2016 to Gil Vicente, when he was only 19 years old. A club that, however, never performed, since it was immediately borrowed from Mirandela.

In 2019, the ‘jump’ was given to Santa Clara, where the notes left were so positive that, a year later, it caught the attention of FC Porto, who did not hesitate to pay a sum in the order of four million euros for the ‘refund’, still during the ‘reign’ of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.

This time, and despite the wide range of options that Francesco Farioli has for the left side of the defense (Francisco Moura, Martim Fernandes and even Jakub Kiwior are alternatives), has been the priority option for the position, as it happened last weekend, when he fulfilled the 90 minutes of the triumph achieved over the Victoria SC, by 1-2.

The lefty was used in 11 of the 17 official games played by the national champions in the title, in all competitions, since the start of the season, and only did not add up even more minutes because, at the end of August, he suffered an injury to the right adductor, in the victory over the Academic of Viseu, for 3-0, which kept him off the lawns for almost two months.