Source: Eurosport
West Ham swap Savio for Fiorentina's Da Costa plus cash
West Ham United have swapped their Germany Under-20 forward Savio for Fiorentina's Portuguese centre-back Manuel Da Costa and an undisclosed fee.[LNB] The Premier League club have signed former PSV Eindhoven and AS Nancy defender Da Costa, 23, on a three-year contract, they said on their website (www.whufc.co.uk).[LNB] The French-born defender has twice been named in the Portugal squad.[LNB] The club will retain 50 percent of his sell-on value after the 20-year-old arrived at the Boleyn Ground in January from Brescia for an undisclosed fee.[LNB] "Had our financial situation been different we would have preferred to have kept and developed Savio," said West Ham United chief executive Scott Duxbury.[LNB] "However, we are required to make savings and our policy has always been to sell players on the fringes rather than established first-team players.[LNB] "With the fee we received for Savio and 50 percent sell-on together with acquiring the highly-rated Da Costa, it represented a great deal."[LNB] West Ham had already bought Serie A forwards Luis Jimenez and Alessandro Diamanti from Inter Milan and Livorno respectively in the transfer window.[LNB] They have also permanently signed Congo left back Herita Ilunga from Toulouse and Spartak Moscow's Czech Republic midfielder Radoslav Kovac after successful loan deals.[LNB] (Editing by John Mehaffey)
