Europa League winners Atletico Madrid fully expect to sign Gelson Martins this summer, despite the roadblocks and are waiting on a response from FIFA, according to a report from Marca.
The Spanish side were previously reported as having reached a verbal agreement with the player, who is said to have already accepted personal terms with the side following a conversation with manager Diego Simeone.
Martins, who has been a Sporting CP player since 2015, was one of many of the club's stars who cancelled their contracts in the wake of the tumultuous end to the season that saw them publicly humiliated by the club president, miss out on the Champions League in their last match of the campaign and suffer an attack at the hands of masked thugs at their training ground.