Santiago Baños, the president of Club América, has confirmed his club has turned down an offer for central defender Sebastian Cáceres but that he won’t stand in the way of players who want to move on.

TWTD revealed that Caceres was a Blues target more than a week ago with news of a bid having been made emerging yesterday. That offer was subsequently turned down, as had been the case with a bid from Spartak Moscow.

“Doors are open at the club for players who want to leave, no one is indispensable,” Baños told ESPN Mexico. “The player who is not comfortable has the doors open.

“We are not going to give them away because it is not a question of weakening us, but as long as there is an agreement between the club, the club that buys and agreement with both parties, we will carry out a negotiation.”

He added: “For Cáceres, there was an offer, but not within the parameters we expect for a player who has been here for a long time. Until they close the transfer windows in different parts of the world we can’t confirm [whether there will be] any more exits or ins.”

Club América are reported to value Cáceres at $10 million (£7.5 million). Discussions are understood to be continuing.

Reports elsewhere yesterday claimed Cáceres would be interested in a move to the Championship, seeing it as a gateway to forging a career in Europe.

TWTD understands initial contact with the Liga MX side and the player was made more than a week ago.

The 25-year-old joined his current side from hometown club Liverpool Montevideo in 2020.

Having played for his country at U18, U20, U22 and U23 levels, the 5ft 11in tall centre-back has gone on to win 20 caps at full level.

While with his current club he has won three Primera División titles, a Campeón de Campeones and a Supercopa MX.

The central defender’s partner Alana Flores is a professional boxer and social media influencer with more than five million followers on Instagram. She is also the president of Raniza FC, a team which plays in the seven-a-side Kings League Américas.

Cáceres would appear to be the replacement for Luke Woolfenden, who is a target of a number of Championship sides.

Earlier in the transfer window, the Blues were linked with a move for another Liga MX player, Deportivo Toluca midfielder Marcel Ruiz.

Meanwhile, Norwegian international forward Sindre Walle Egeli has started following Town and Ed Sheeran on Instagram.

Last week, the Blues were reported to have made a €20 million (£17.2 million) to Danish club FC Nordsjælland for the 19-year-old Norway international with discussions believed to have been continuing.

Photo: Reuters

dirtydingusmagee added 10:30 - Aug 23 come on Ed , get him over the line .
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LegendofthePhoenix added 10:38 - Aug 23 This doesn't excite me at all he is at least 4" too short for a CB. Unless we see him as a fullback.
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austractor added 10:39 - Aug 23 I’d rather keep the Woolf if it’s one or the other. No judgement of the player, pure sentiment on my part.
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itfcserbia added 10:39 - Aug 23
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foot_kick_ball_goal added 10:59 - Aug 23 Too short? Guess you would have turned down puyol on the same logic.
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dav86 added 11:06 - Aug 23 Maybe Woolf doesn’t want to be here anymore as he wants regular football
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MickMillsTash added 11:12 - Aug 23 Uruguay are going to qualify for the World Cup- 48 teams its harder to miss out that to get in. He will want/need to be playing football rather be on the bench Right footed, he won't be replacing O'Shea- where will he play? This has big Potential to be 'doing a Sereni'
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BobbyBell added 11:59 - Aug 23 We are truly blessed to have fans who are so much more knowledgeable that KM. Too short, too tall, too thin, too slow, too cheap, too expensive, never heard of him so he must be crap etc etc. Some on here may remember when we signed Michael Chopra and how exciting that was? How did that workout? John Wark was slow and short but he had the knack to be in the right place at the right time and scored loads of goals. In his second spell he played centre back, short and slow but he read the game so well that he knew where to be to intercept a pass or block a run or a cross. Maybe sometimes KM see attributes in players that some of us don't even look for, Whoever we sign let's not write them off before they've played a few games. The late great Sir Bobby described a football team as a jigsaw. Not all the pieces have to be pretty as long as they all fit together to make the perfect picture. I know football has changed a lot since those days but it's still a game where a team does better than eleven individuals. Let's let KM select his own players of choice and trust his judgement of how they will fit into his way of playing.

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NW10_Tractor added 12:06 - Aug 23 The president sounds a bit toilet to me….
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billlm added 12:06 - Aug 23 Legendofthephoenix, masscarno was a small centre back had a brilliant career with the top clubs,
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jas0999 added 12:47 - Aug 23 Ashton is in for a busy week. At least one CM and striker needed, the Norwegian chap to replace Hutch and a replacement for Wolfe - or don’t let him go.
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poet added 13:38 - Aug 23 If this guy comes, then in my opinion, he would strengthen the central defensive positions that we have at the moment. Like it or not, he’s a cut above Woolfenden, and I’d guess, that’s why we are very interested in him.
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itfcserbia added 14:10 - Aug 23 "Too short" defenders: Franco Baresi Iván Córdoba Roberto Ayala Carles Puyol Fabio Cannavaro Alessandro Nesta Javier Mascherano William Gallas Thiago Silva Steve Bruce and Bobby Moore also not too big not too bad
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