Martins and flies with the Levant

While the Lift tab should not surprise anyone: the surprise team of the last few seasons in the Spanish league has excelled in recruiting players at low cost and high performance. Especially pay has been a particular position, the center forward who a few years ago occupied the Ecuadorian Caicedo and last season the Ivorian Arouna Koné. Discarded by their computers, signed to the club where he claimed granota with goals, and signed to other teams left in the coffers and necessary levantinistas few million. Now it seems that Manolo Salvador, sporting director, has done it again: the Nigerian Obafemi Martins, signed last September, is offering a superb performance with two goals endorsed him yesterday marked the Granada. His flips are already part of the Ciutat de Valencia.

With these two goals (in addition to their day twenty-eighth birthday) sum and four in the league, and already scored on his debut against Real Sociedad and also against Valencia . Both victory and earned many were also two goals. Nor have any waste of yesterday, the first after taking advantage of the failure of a central mark of Granada and set low shot to the bottom and the second, also, after taking advantage of a failure behind rival. In the short time it takes Martins in the Spanish league has already made clear its qualities: goal, speed and power, plus opportunism. Qualities that already also become a very important player in the Pro, certainly more than you know what I mean (that 99 speed ...)

With its landing in our league, Martins has played in the top leagues of Europe. Loud were the first steps in the Inter Milan where he won a hole through the blistering pace. After five years as nerazzurro and a few goals, the glittering Moratti signings for the front end up leaving the site in the template interista and had to go to Newcastle. Premier stressed the player for the Magpies, but the ups and downs and its irregularity lastrarían performance. After three years at St James' Park emigrated to the Bundesliga for Wolfsburg wear the shirt of payment of nine kilos, but did not play as much as I wanted in the Volkswagen Club.

After a year in Germany ficharía by Rubin Kazan, who did not hesitate to release 17 million euros for his pass, but neither in Russia find its place being loaned to Birmingham a year later. On his return to the Premier did not play much because of an injury but had time to score the winning goal in the final of the League Cup Birmingham swiped the Arsenal. The decline in the performance graph is clear Obafemi since leaving Newcastle this summer and terminated his contract with Rubin Kazan giving up much of its listing, provided they can be free to decide their next destination.

The Levant and was interested in it from the beginning, but the discrepancies when negotiating the contract, specifically relating to the termination clause, delayed the signing until Sept. 14 the deadline closed. Its status as a free agent allowed to be entered in the league, but not in the Europa League. Finally the Nigerian was hired with a buyout clause of three million, far less than the ten that tried the Valencian club. Sure good performance has not gone unnoticed and are craving those three million affordable, but so far still enjoy playing soccer Martins in Valencia.