Any one of them could have taken a chance on him in the summer and even loaned him out.
To be fair, this looks like good agent work; put him in a league where he’ll excel and then get a bigger move than he might have otherwise done.
I think Portugal only has about 2 or 3 decent teams and a load of League 1 standard teams making up the numbers. Like Scotland with warmer golf courses.
There’ll be a prem club or German club needing to push on in the next transfer window and I cal easily see Newcastle spending big to get a ECL spot or even Everton (if rules allow) wanting to spend to stay up, or even one of the big German clubs going for it.
There’s been a few big money moves from the Portuguese league recently.