After days of negotiations & speculations, Spanish Football Club Valencia CF has officially announced via its website ( as has Tottenham ) that they have come to an agreement to transfer their Spanish International & forward Roberto Soldado to English Football Club Tottenham Hotspurs. The only thing now remaining is that the player pass the obligatory medical exam before closing the deal 100%.
The deal was shut for 30M€ which is the players contract release clause. Roberto Soldado will sign with Tottenham Hotspurs for the next 4 seasons.
Another Spanish Football export & from here I would like to wish the player all the luck in the World. To the Tottenham Hotspurs fans just say that they will be adding to their Club a fine professional with plenty of goal. Soldado is a hard working team player that will give plenty of joys & goals for the Club. Nice buy & great addition.
Everything indicates that Spanish Football is about to export another asset to the English Premier League. English Club Tottenham Hotspurs has indicated to Valencia CF that they will pay the 30M€ contract release clause of Spanish International & Valencia forward Roberto Soldado. The deal is so close that it is said that the only thing needed is to come to an agreement on the forms ( manner ) of the payment.
The negotiations between the Clubs has been long with Valencia insisting on the 30M€ figure throughout.
Valencia CF has already a few names on their list to replace Soldado. There is Portuguese International & Zaragoza player Postinga , RCD Espanyol forward Sergio Garcia or Getafe striker Adrian Colunga.
English Club Tottenham Hotspurs is on the local Spanish Sports daily s for third reasons this morning:
Tottenham apparently has Brazilian International midfielder Paulinho in "the bag", beating Real Madrid CF. However, it was never clear Real Madrid made an offer for Paulinho in the first place
Gareth Bale gets very complicated for Real Madrid as the price tag of 80-100M€ is for "madmen". Plus apparently Tottenham does not wish to sell.
The interest of Tottenham Hotspurs to sign Valencia CF & Spanish International Roberto Soldado hits hard locally in the press.
Roberto Soldado is as well on the agenda of Atletico de Madrid. However it is being reported that Tottenham Hotspurs has entered the picture & wishes to sign the forward for next season. The English Club values the player around 18M€ while Valencia CF puts the price around the 30M€ suggesting some serious negotiations ahead if Tottenham really wishes to sign Soldado.
Tottemham looks set to sell Adebayor to Turkish Club Besiktas for 6M€ & this will leave a vacant position upfront that the Club will need to fill. The explosion of the Roberto Soldado Tottenham interest in the press makes me think Roberto Soldado "smells" more of a "Plan B" , as the real target is FC Barcelona forward David Villa. Added to this it may also be that doubts may have set in within the English Club, Soldado is a more younger player than Villa.
What is the economic - monetary value of a goal? This is the question that the Spanish Economic paper "Expansion" asked itself. It seems that it is almost impossible to answer this question. Instead, it is easier to calculate the profitability of a player by dividing the money the player earns dividing by the amount of goals he scores. Following this logic, Messi scored 73 goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored 60 goals last season. With the 10.5 million€ Messi earns from FC Barcelona & the 10 million€ that Cristiano Ronaldo earns from Real Madrid, the results give ratios of 143,835€/goal & 166,666€/goal respectively. The Messi & Ronaldo ratio results is almost three times less than, for example, Wayne Rooney the Manchester United striker, who played 43 games for his Club and scored 34 goals. This implies that for each goal it cost Manchester United 405,882€ (his salary is 13.8 million€ /year). With this comparison & given that Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo are the most frequent players who scored more than one goal per game they turn out to show that they are not as expensive as they initially may seem.
In the SPANISH FOOTBALL case , Valencia CF striker ROBERTO SOLDADO is the most profitable.
Roberto Soldado
The most profitable goal scoring players in Spanish Football are: - Roberto Soldado: (Valencia CF): Earns 2.6 million€ & scored 27 goals last year (92,296€/ goal). - Falcao: (At. Madrid) : The Colombian scored 36 goals last season & earned 4 million€ (111, 111 euros / goal). - Fran Llorente: (At Bilbao) : A total of 29 goals & earns 3.5 million€ (120,689€ / goal). - Lionel Messi: ( FC Barcelona) : The Argentine scored a total of 73 goals & earns 10.5 million€ (143,835€ / goal). - Alvaro Negredo: (Sevilla FC ) Scored 14 goals & earns 2.2 million€ (157,142€/ goal). - Cristiano Ronaldo : (Real Madrid CF) Scored 60 goals earned 10 million€ (166,666€ / goal). - Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid CF) : Scored 26 goals & earns 4.5 million€ (173,076€ / goal). - Karim Benzema: (Real Madrid CF): Scored 32 goals & earns six million€ (187,500€ /goal). Tweet
The FIFA backed "International Federation of Football History & Statistics" (IFFHS) has accounted all the goals scored in International Club, Continental competitions & World Club Championship games for 2012 so far & has FC BARCELONA forward LIONEL MESSI as the Nº1 Goalscorer with 9 goals.
The accounting factors are important as they explains why some big names are missing, here the local Leagues are not taken into account. The only Spanish player in the Top 10 is Valencia CF forward ROBERTO SOLDADO with 5 goals. Notable absences is Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, along with amp; team-mate Karim Benzema, & Ibrahimovic (AC Milan), for example.
VALENCIA CF has found a substitute for departed forward David Villa in GETAFE striker & ex-Real Madrid player ROBERTO SOLDADO. The 25 year old player signs for the next 4 years & Valencia pays the Madrid (Getafe) Club a cool 10M€ over the next coming years in various instalments as part of the contract release clause obligation.
A good signing as Soldado has had a great 2009-2010 season & now with this jump in “catagory” has a chance to show his Football style on the European stage.
Source SFS / Check out this overhead goal by Getafe forward ROBERTO SOLDADO in yesterdays Spanish Legaue - Liga - Round 36 mid week match against Sporting de Gijón. This amazing effort served as the equalizer for his team in the final 1-1 result.
Putting my grain of sand to help contribute in expanding Spanish Football - Soccer | Sports abroad. An ex-amateur Footballer long ago - alias Striker - is now a fan that has the game embedded in his Football - Soccer Sports heart.
