Spanish side Sevilla have ended their interest in Ghana midfielder Anthony Annan after signing Gary Medel and Schalke midfielder Ivan Rakitic on Thursday night.
\nSevilla will pay Universidad Catolica \u20ac3 million for Medel, who can play as a defender as well as a midfielder. Rakitic is also expected to sign a deal imminently that is expected to stretch until 2014 and it\u2019s been reported that Sevilla will pay Schalke \u20ac1.5m for his services.
\nSevilla wanted to sign Annan from Rosenborg who were holding out for US$5m transfer fee while Sevilla\u2019s last final offer was US$3m.
\nWith a deal not being reached on his transfer fee, Sevilla opted to sign two midfielders to make up for the delays by Rosenborg Annan waded into the transfer stalemate on Thursday morning between his club and Sevilla insisting he wants to join the Spanish side.
\nThe Ghanaian issued the stern warning to the Norwegian club who have rejected several Sevilla offers for Annan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spanish side Sevilla have ended their interest in Ghana midfielder Anthony Annan after signing Gary Medel and Schalke midfielder Ivan Rakitic on Thursday night. Sevilla will pay Universidad Catolica \u20ac3 million for Medel, who can play as a defender as well as a midfielder. Rakitic is also expected to sign a deal imminently that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n