Hamann Pineapple said:
Could someone cut and paste this Duncan Castles interview with Falcao please ?
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One of those, not sure which.
Thanks
The first link;
MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen the club's wage bill rise above £200million, threatening its ability to comply with UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations. F
Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.
After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.
Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.
And the second;
COMING any time soon to a Premier League stadium near you: a 260kg Bengal tiger and 73kg of goalkeeper-eating Colombian? Spanish sports papers enjoy reprinting images of an anxious-looking Radamel Falcao bedecked in Atletico Madrid’s red and white stripes standing behind a rather larger banded predator. El Tigre and the beast who gave him a nickname.
The moniker arrived soon after Falcao left his home country as a precocious, focused 14-year-old to join Argentina’s River Plate. A two-goal performance in a youth fixture secured the sponsor’s man-of-the-match award, the Tigre Esso, and a mischievous teammate began the teasing. “Watch out, we’ve got a tiger on the pitch.” Twelve years later Atletico fans taunt visitors to their Vicente Calderon lair with doctored road signs: a tiger’s head in a red warning triangle. “On match days” reads the text below.
The moment Falcao walks into a business hotel near his house in Madrid’s southeast suburbs, the easy athleticism is obvious. At a metre and 77 centimetres he does not have the stature of many modern strikers, yet there is a precise muscularity that his James Dean T-shirt and stressed denim cannot mask; a balance to his gait that suggests the agility and acceleration to leave defenders chasing shadows.
The previous night he scored his 17th goal of a La Liga season not yet half-run. The strike gave Atletico a lead at Barcelona they failed to maintain. While Atletico still stand an unexpected second in the table, we are warned that this tiger did not wake in the best of moods.
His sense of humour, fortunately, remains intact. Discussion of his nickname stretches strong Latin features into a jocular grin. “I like it,” he says. “And it’s better to be The Tiger than The Little Kitten.”
