Chapter 158: The Battle for Falco

Falcao was born in Santa-Marta, Colombia, where his father was also a well-known footballer and scored two goals in seven appearances for the Colombian national team. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info However, his father did not support his son playing football, and wanted Falcao to learn baseball, a more aristocratic sport. But soon Falcao discovered that football was his passion, and he chose to give up baseball in favor of Columbia's Fair Play soccer school, where he played for the Millionaires' Club's junior team, representing the team in the second division at the age of 13.

River Plate's scouts brought him to Argentina at the age of 15 and started playing for River Plate when he turned 17.

Before signing a formal professional contract with River Plate, Falcao obtained a degree in media studies at the University of Buenos Aires and can be described as the quintessential "intellectual among footballers". The 17-year-old made his league debut for River Plate and two years later he is firmly in the regular position of the Argentine giants, scoring seven goals in his first seven starts. However, injuries prevented him from taking off for a while, and after gradually developing into a regular for River Plate, he continued to score goals.

Injuries limited Falcao's early days, but he managed to adjust his form in the 2006-2007 season, scoring 19 goals in 35 games to become the team's top scorer and be named in the South American Team of the Year.

In 2009, Falcao moved to Europe and, like other South American players, moved to the Portuguese league and joined Porto.

It turned out to be a successful transfer: Falcao won the league title in his first season with Porto and scored 30 goals, and since then Falcao has been nicknamed 'Colombian striker'.

Last season, with Hulk's tacit cooperation, Falcao's performance on the field was even more like a fish in water, throughout the season, Falcao scored 38 goals, helping Porto dominate in the Europa League, Portuguese Super League and many other competitions, he himself also successfully took away the Europa League Golden Boot with 17 goals, and broke Klinsmann's single-season record of 15 goals, showing his true colors.

In his two seasons in Porto, Falcao broke a number of goal records, so on the German authoritative website "Transfer Market", Falcao's value has approached 25 million euros, and the giants who want to bring him in are even more innumerable, Milan in Serie A, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham in the Premier League, in addition to Bayern in the Bundesliga and Lyon in Ligue 1.

With such a goal machine-like goalscorer, should Atletico Madrid participate in the competition?

The answer is clearly yes.

With Wan Sheng's nod of advice, Atletico Madrid quickly made an offer to the Porto club.

This time, Wansheng also took the initiative to be interviewed and said, "Falcao will be the best candidate to replace Aguero!" ”

"I hope to get him, he will be the flag of Atletico Madrid in the future!"

'As it was reported, a lot of clubs want to get Falcao, but Atletico Madrid is different, other clubs are just an investment, yes, they don't have a shortage of strikers who can score, like Arsenal, they have Robin van Persie, Chelsea? They have Torres and it seems that they are still looking to buy Juan Mata, Bayern? I don't know if Falcao is gone, Muller will give up his main position......"

Wan Sheng counted them one by one, and it seems to show that every club has no shortage of strikers, Falcao can only play as a substitute, Atletico Madrid is different, Aguero has left Manchester, and they are missing a core striker.

Other clubs are not happy about this.

Wan Sheng's words seemed to provoke public anger, and the support media of one club after another stood up and said that they also wanted to get Falcao, and Falcao came to their club and could also become the main scorer, and then these media began to talk about Atletico Madrid's striker, such as Diego Costa, Costa is very efficient and can be a player who can become a core scorer.

Soon Wan Sheng responded, saying, "It's useless for them to say so much, everything depends on Erkao's choice." Here, I must say that Falcao is the most important target for Atletico in the summer! ”

This sentence made many media vomit blood angrily.

Is Falcao Atletico's biggest target for the summer? Isn't that! Atletico Madrid didn't participate in the 'Battle for Falcao' at all, so why did they become 'my territory, my decision' as soon as they came!

Of course, if you want to dig into a transfer, the most important thing is the idea of Porto FC and Falcao himself.

Porto club is good to say, even if the small league is a giant, it is difficult to retain outstanding stars, they have long planned to sell Falcao, but it is just a matter of price, Atletico Madrid is 36 million euros, the bid is not low, this price is much more sincere than what Arsenal and Bayern Munich are, and it is enough to make Porto club excited, if you have the choice, Porto club is of course willing to sell Falcao to Atletico Madrid.

So the most important thing is Falcao himself.

Wan Sheng stood up for an interview, publicly expressed his appreciation for Falcao, analyzed how much Atletico Madrid needed Falcao, and promised a high-salary contract, all with the aim of convincing Falcao.

What did Falcao himself think?

This is not clear to anyone except Falcao himself, but there is no doubt that Falcao actually doesn't really want to leave Porto, because here he has familiar teammates, familiar welcomes, and many supportive fans, but he knows in his heart that for the development of his career, he must also go to a wider place, whether to England, Italy, Germany, or Spain?

Falcao hesitated.

As a Colombian player, he has been in Portugal since he landed in Europe and is not familiar with other leagues.

In the end, Falcao decided to let the club choose for itself.

It's also about satisfying the Porto club and making the Porto fans happy with themselves, after all, it will bring the best benefit to Porto.

In fact, this is also a way to test the sincerity of each team.

Clubs with more money must be full of sincerity, while clubs with less money are not necessarily, it is likely that they just regard themselves as investments, and they may lose money if they spend more money.

Competing for financial resources, those small clubs and clubs with poor financial conditions have already been drawn off.

Liverpool, AC Milan, who have little interest in Falcao, and Arsenal, who have spent a lot of money, have all dropped out of the competition, and the remaining teams are Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid.

Of the three teams, the media is not optimistic about Bayern Munich.

First of all, Bayern Munich is a Bundesliga team, and the average South American player does not like the Bundesliga, because many South American players will not be adaptable, and Bayern Munich is not a team that is willing to spend a lot of money to buy stars.

Chelsea and Atletico Madrid are much more sincere.

The two clubs began to work hard, with Chelsea raising their transfer offers to €37 million, Atletico Madrid to €38 million, and Falcao soon after his offer to €40 million.

€40 million is a tipping point, and the two clubs seem to have a tacit agreement not to raise the price.

This makes Porto FC a little bit of a pity.

They certainly won't agree to sell Falcao to one of the clubs, but wait for the two clubs to continue to compete.

What many people don't know is that the competition between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea is not just about Falcao, Valencia striker Juan Mata is also their target.

Just a week later, Chelsea's offer for Juan Mata is already as high as €26 million, while Atletico Madrid have also quoted a whopping €25.5 million.

At this time, both clubs knew that it would not be beneficial for both parties to continue to compete, not to mention, the two clubs were actually very friendly, Wan Sheng and Abramovich had a good relationship, Abramovich also held shares in the Tagore Wan Group, and was also one of the actual directors of the Tagore Wan Group, but he never interfered in the management of the group company.

Abramovich does not interfere in the transfer of players, perhaps in Russia, he does not know about the transfer competition between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea, or Wansheng took the initiative to call.

Abramovich was surprised to receive a call from Wan Sheng, the last time the two spoke was two years ago.

Wan Sheng didn't talk nonsense, and talked directly about the competition between the two clubs, and after listening to it, Abramovich asked, "What solution do you have?" Chelsea really need a core goalscorer! ”

"It's very simple, we withdraw from the Juan Mata race, you withdraw from the fight for Falcao!"

"Why don't you switch over?"

Wan Sheng thought for a moment and casually found a reason, "As far as I know, Chelsea's operation has always been not very good, with your salary level, if you give Falcao a big contract, can you still guarantee to break even?" 'He looked like he was thinking about Chelsea.

Roman Abramovich also smiled, he hardly interferes in club affairs, but, in his opinion, whether he can bring in a star for Chelsea is certainly not as important as having a good relationship with Wansheng, who is not a few years ago, the two are friends who stand in the same position and can talk to each other on an equal footing.

In the end, Wan Sheng promised to go to London next time, have tea with Abramovich, and agreed on the transfer.

The rest is simple.

Chelsea Football Club dropped out of the race for Falcao, while Atletico Madrid dropped out of the race for Juan Mata.

In the fight for Falcao, Atletico Madrid has no competitors, and the Porto club can only accept an offer of 40 million euros and sell Falcao to Atletico Madrid.

PS: Commuter Pass ~~~~~~ (To be continued.) )