Monaco splash £60m on Porto Pair

Porto midfield duo, Joao Moutinho and Jay Rodriguez, have completed their blockbuster moves to newly promoted French Ligue 1 side, Monaco.

Reigning Portuguese Champions Porto confirmed the moves on their website and revealed that the Principality club paid £38.5m for highly-rated 21 year-old Rodriguez and £21.5m for 26 year-old Moutinho.

Both players have played key roles for their now former-club Porto over the past few seasons and their performances have seen them linked with big-money moves to the Premier League but those moves haven’t materialised and Monaco have stepped in to fill the void by snatching the two players on five-year deals.

Monaco have widely been expected to spend big this summer after they were bought by Russian billionaire, Dmitry Rybololev, earlier in the season and this’ll probably be the first of many big moves to come as the board look to improve the squad to such a standard that they’ll be taking on the likes of PSG and Marseille in the race for the league title next season.