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Swansea City face more challenges to sign Valencia’s André Almeida as Celta Vigo join the transfer race. Last week, the Championship side tabled an offer, and then made progress this week. Two days ago, we relayed news Los Ches accepted a Swansea City bid worth €3.5m, rising to €5-6m with bonuses. However, the midfielder isn’t keen on making a switch to the Championship. On Wednesday, Sport Witness covered claims from Spain of his unhappiness at Valencia wanting him to join the Welsh club. Player says no to Swansea City El Chiringuito journalist Germán Muñoz took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share the latest developments. The La Liga side gave the Portuguese a deadline of 10pm Wednesday to accept a move to Swansea City. However, he has decided against joining them. Instead, André Almeida is open to joining Celta Vigo, who joined the race on Wednesday. The La Liga side haven’t made an offer to Valencia so far. Tribuna Deportiva took to X to report that the player is training in the gym alone and not with the rest of the group. Second source backs up Swansea City rejection Marca also report the 26-year-old has said no to Vítor Matos’ side and is waiting for an option better than Swansea City. Both Carlos Corberán and Valencia CEO Ron Gourlay put pressure on André Almeida to accept the Championship side’s offer. The pair even called him on Wednesday, but he refused to budge and has turned them down. | La Liga 2025/26 | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---| | Appearances | 22 | | | | | Started | 11 | | | | | Minutes per game | 47 | | | | | Total minutes played | 1035 | | | | | Goals | 0 | | | | | Assists | 2 | | | | The newspaper backs up Celta Vigo’s interest, however, they can only make advances if some of their own players were to leave. The midfielder wants to see if Celta or another club will make advances to sign him. Valencia have made it clear to Almeida that he has no future at the Mestalla and are pushing him to leave. Despite his rejection, Los Ches continue to put pressure on him to ‘reconsider and ultimately leave’ for Swansea City. That decision should now be taken away from him by the Welsh club. André Almeida isn’t worth this amount of convincing.