River Plate have revealed that Reading are keen on signing their central defender Danilo Gerlo.
Reading and River Plate are both currently in South Korea for the Peace Cup, and they faced each other last week.
Now River have revealed that Reading have made contact over Gerlo.
The 28-year-old impressed Reading's management during River's 1-0 win over The Royals and the South American giants have revealed that chairman John Madejski has made an approach.
"In the last weeks we had several offers for Gerlo from different European countries but none of them satisfied the player," revealed River board member Hernan Cordoba.
"We received offers from Austria, Israel, Switzerland and Greece but we didn't accept any of them because he said that for leaving River he had to receive a proposal from Spain, Italy or England.
"Now that Reading is interested in Gerlo, he has said that we could start negotiations because he is interested in playing for that team.
"He knows that the main player of the team is Kevin Doyle and he gets paid $1.5 million (£750,000) per-year so he is not going to get paid the same but he could be offered a contract that will surely be more than what he gets paid at River and in addition to that he would be playing in one of the leagues that he is interested in."
Fellow River Plate board member Jose Besteiro added that talks with Madejski had taken place.
"We will start conversations as the player would like to have the chance of playing in England because he would improve as a professional," Besteiro revealed.
"In River he hasn't a place for sure as there are other central defenders as Cristian Nasuti and Federico Lussenhof."
Source : www.skysports.com
By Patricio Figueroa - Created on 16 Jul 2007
