Part 2: The Biggest Moves of The Summer - David Villa
Ever since the transfer window opened, we saw some dramatic and spectacular transfers take place. Some of the best players in the world changed teams and made their way across continents.
The transfers varied from Thierry Henry going to the New York Red Bulls to Mesut Ozil joining Real Madrid and Van Der Vaart going to Tottenham. Some of the age old transfer problems were also finally silenced, like Robinho finally joining a team.
Keeping all of the above in mind here is a look at some of the biggest transfers that took place this summer.
David Villa: Barcelona have always been one of the hardest teams to beat in Europe. They have always boasted some of the best attacking options ever known to the footballing world. Two seasons ago the forwards at the club, Thierry Henry, Samuel Eto’o and Lionel Messi managed to score well over a hundred goals. Some teams find it hard to score such a high number of goals all season long, however these three players managed to acheive this feat.
However last season, Eto’o was allowed to leave the team, since the manager felt that the player had lost the desire to carry on, after winning almost everything with the team. After which the manager turned to Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a replacement for the forward.
The Swedish striker came in and made an almost immediate impact on the side. The player scored a handful of goals at the start of the season, but slowly seemed to fade into the background of the team. The striker only managed to score twenty two goals, which is a low for a player who cost the team, one of their best players and over fifty million pounds.
Barcelona soon started looking elsewhere as they searched for another striker. The teams search got them as far as David Villa, the Spanish goal scoring machine. The forward had been in great form ever since arriving at the La Liga. He had even managed to score around twenty goals every season over the last decade. A record that only a handful of players hold.
David Villa was expected to come into the club even earlier, however Valencia didn’t seem to want to part ways with their ace striker. At the end of last season Valencia face a major financial crunch, which was exploited by Barcelona to land the forward. They made Valencia an offer that they couldn’t refuse and finally got their man.
Villa became one of the first signings of the season. The player went into the FIFA World Cup as a Barcelona player and he justified the outrageous amount of money spent on the player. He scored five of the seven goals scored by Spain during the tournament. And along the way he even broke Raul’s record for being the highest scoring Spanish player.
Villa managed to score his first goal for Barcelona in the pre seasons and has been more than impressive every time he has taken the field with his new squad members.
Villa could go on to shatter numerous records this season, considering he is a natural at scoring goals. Goal scoring is like an extra sense that was fine tuned into the player when he was born.
The mercurial forward will be playing alongside the likes of Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez. Those are two players who help compliment whoever they play with and make them look better than they already are. If Villa gets any better than what he is, it could just mean the end of almost every goal scoring record that stands today.
Whether Villa manages to do just that, or the opposite will only be found out once the players first season with the team comes to an end.
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