Stoke City to complete £1m Rotherham United signing
Stoke City are expected to complete a deal to sign Rotherham United goalkeeper Viktor Johansson this week.
The future of Johansson at the New York Stadium hasn’t been in any doubt for some time. Manager Steve Evans said, after the final game of the season, that he expected the 25-year-old to have left the club within a fortnight.
Evans added that there were some top second tier sides in for Johansson, and the Potters are the ones who look like they will come out on top in the race to sign the shot-stopper at a cut-price rate.
Stoke City set to sign Rotherham’s Viktor Johansson
John Percy of The Telegraph has reported that the Swedish international is set to have a medical on Friday ahead of a move to the bet365 stadium, in a deal that will be worth over £1 million.
Stoke activated a clause in the Rotherham captain’s contract which allowed him to leave for that reduced price if the Millers were relegated to League One.
Other EFL sides like Leeds United and Derby County were reported to have been interested in Johansson too, but City appear to have won the race for him.
The news around the existence of the cheap release clause in Johansson’s latest deal with the Millers was broken by the Rotherham Advertiser.
They said that, in the two-and-a-half year deal that the Swede signed when Matt Taylor was still in charge, the clause that would allow him to leave the club for a seven-figure fee was included.
Journalist Alan Nixon later reported, via his Patreon, that the value of said release clause was actually just short of that mark; clocking in at £900,000. In that same report, he said Stoke were leading the race to sign him, but that the newly-promoted Rams still held an interest in Johansson.
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