Falcao to AS Monaco - The road to Real Madrid

[Dinpomp]

Gianluca Di Marzio (Sky Italy "transfer expert") claims Falcao has signed a contract with Monaco, but that it does not have a "Real Madrid release clause."

 

[Pete Spur]

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Get out of places like Colombia? Have you been? Would rather try to get out of places like Liverpool.

Colombia makes Liverpool look like disneyland

 

[mw828]

"His dream of playing in Madrid"

Where does he play now you ask? Madrid of course.

 

[Pete Spur]

was thinkn the same thing

kinda disrespectful to Atletico

 

[coysjod]

Colombia makes Liverpool look like disneyland

no one is stealing my hub caps here...

 

[Pete Spur]

no one is stealing my hub caps here...

do cars even have hub caps in Colombia?

how long you been there?

 

[coysjod]

since 2008, running a little coffee shop on the Caribbean coast just outside Falcao's hometown Santa Marta. Lovely people and lovely country, increasingly popular with tourists now since it is safe to travel here.

 

[not_tenth-again]

since 2008, running a little coffee shop on the Caribbean coast just outside Falcao's hometown Santa Marta. Lovely people and lovely country, increasingly popular with tourists now since it is safe to travel here.

That sounds shit.... sure you wouldn't want to swap for my excessive financial pressure, long indoor work hours, massive commute and zero career growth prospects

 

[coysjod]

That sounds shit.... sure you wouldn't want to swap for my excessive financial pressure, long indoor work hours, massive commute and zero career growth prospects

I shall think about your offer of life trading tomorrow while sipping on a mojito on the terrace.

 

[tototoner]

eh? What about being scouted... doesn't that happen there?

Yes but the agents ( investment companies ) buy the players up once they show any talent, common practice in South America and will not change anytime soon.

A few get picked up very young and go to clubs in Iberia but work permit rules stop that happening to other European countries

 

[not_tenth-again]

I shall think about your offer of life trading tomorrow while sipping on a mojito on the terrace.

... not liking my chances

 

[Pete Spur]

since 2008, running a little coffee shop on the Caribbean coast just outside Falcao's hometown Santa Marta. Lovely people and lovely country, increasingly popular with tourists now since it is safe to travel here.

sounds lovely, but they still produce 70-80% of the worlds cocaine and a shite load of heroine and it's full of drug smuggling gangs and FARC

but hey it's a big country so I guess it depends were you're at

although maybe disneyland was a bad choice of words because liverpoo is still shit

 

[coysjod]

sounds lovely, but they still produce 70-80% of the worlds cocaine and a shite load of heroine and it's full of drug smuggling gangs and FARC

but hey it's a big country so I guess it depends were you're at

although maybe disneyland was a bad choice of words because liverpoo is still shit

Well, don't think that there exist something like proper adequate statistics when it comes to drug production but sure there is still a lot of coke produced here but also in other parts of the continent like the region around Santa Cruz in Bolivia and parts of Peru as well.
Drug smuggling gangs you have in the USA and Europe as well since the consumers are there, and it takes a hell of a bigger network to distribute all this crap than actually producing it. FARC have a few small bases left in the amazon jungle and the border area to Panama, in the rest of the country you don't hear or see anything about them. We see as little of the criminality that you refer to here as you probably see the different mafia and organized crime gangs in the western world, aka nothing, but they still exist.
The problem is that when there is demand there will be supply, and for latin american countries who have been bled dry in terms of other natural resources of us in Europe and the States (check this: http://www.e-reading-lib.org/bookreader.php/149187/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf ) it is too hard to say no to the money that these crops bring in.
This is still a wonderful country though with some of the nicest people I have met, who are all very keen to show you what a nice place Colombia is. They are all doing their utmost to change the tarnished reputation that their beloved country has got and ask any backpacker that has traveled through the country and they will tell you a completely different story than what you read from lazy journalists at home.
Then again I am with Colombia as I am with my parents, I can criticize them since I know them, others who don't - can't

 

[Pete Spur]

thanks for the book mate, some of my best friends are Colombian so I know first hand they can be sound as a pound and Colombian women are fuckn beautiful for the most part

but the drug statistics are pretty accurate, the Mexicans control the trade now but it's still mostly made in Colombia

anyhow best of luck out their mate with the coffee shop sounds like you're in a small paradise

 

[coysjod]

thanks for the book mate, some of my best friends are Colombian so I know first hand they can be sound as a pound and Colombian women are fuckn beautiful for the most part

but the drug statistics are pretty accurate, the Mexicans control the trade now but it's still mostly made in Colombia

anyhow best of luck out their mate with the coffee shop sounds like you're in a small paradise

I am married to one and indeed they are stunning, though feisty... Stop by for coffee when you tag along with your Colombian friends on vacation www.cafebonsai.com

 

[Pete Spur]

Man it would be a pleasure, Lord knows I need a vacation

looks like you have quite the set up, I'll get out there someday.........

I live in Georgia now which has nice weather but isn't quite as exotic as Santa Marta infact it's a country mile away lol

 

[llamafarmer]

I am married to one and indeed they are stunning, though feisty... Stop by for coffee when you tag along with your Colombian friends on vacation www.cafebonsai.com

Cafe looks awesome mate, nice work!

 

[SpursManChris]

It's not often you see a player of Falcao's quality making a move to a club like Monaco especially when you consider the club he left in order to go there, Atletico. Very rare indeed. He's 28 now, getting on in his years and he could've achieved so much more than he has if it wasn't for that third party ownership shit. But now that Monaco have him, why the hell did they hand him over to United? It's not like he'll ever end up joining them unless they can match what Monaco are offering.

 

[TheAmerican]

It's not often you see a player of Falcao's quality making a move to a club like Monaco especially when you consider the club he left in order to go there, Atletico. Very rare indeed. He's 28 now, getting on in his years and he could've achieved so much more than he has if it wasn't for that third party ownership shit. But now that Monaco have him, why the hell did they hand him over to United? It's not like he'll ever end up joining them unless they can match what Monaco are offering.

Monaco's owner was involved in the largest divorce settlement in history. He wants to clear up the wage bill.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Monaco's owner was involved in the largest divorce settlement in history. He wants to clear up the wage bill.

Plus it's just ridiculous assembling such a team there. About 1500 regular supporters at most. pish.