Chelsea and West Ham missed out on the chance to sign Brazilian goal machine Gabriel Barbosa in January.

His agent Junior Pedroso said: “Gabriel was in great form, obviously, he drew the attention of many big clubs.

“But who really advanced were two teams in Germany and a team in England that made a proposal, which was West Ham. We had flirted with Chelsea and some other clubs.

“But for the project that was presented in January, Flamengo were the best project for him to take off in his career.”

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