Santos had several targets to reinforce the club’s cast. One of them was the striker Bakambu, from Bétis-ESP, at the time when fish was negotiating with Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli, but the conversations were not forward.
However, a comment on Instagram yielded a new ‘hope’ to Santos fans for a possible arrival in the fish. THE Sporting News show.
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What did Bakambu did?
Bakambu made a comment in a post by defender Luan Peres after a goalless draw against Fluminense. In the comment, the attacker put an emoji from one hand up and a fire. It was enough for several comments from the fans on social networks.
“Bakambu, accept to receive little and come play in colossal”, “this one is desperate to come huh” and “I’m so desperate that I accept this 9”, were some comments.
Bakambu, accept to receive little and come play in colossal pic.twitter.com/aLDwxd0WTT
– Bea Paz (@isntbeapaz) September 1, 2025
Sancts till Sans?
According to the UOL SportBakambu, currently at Real Betis, was one of the names requested by Jorge Sampaoli during the negotiations to assume the technical command of Santos.
However, Santos ended up giving up the negotiation with Bakambu, much due to the high cost for their hiring. There were no new contacts.
Bakambu NO Betis numbers
- 51 Games
- 12 goals
- 4 Assists
