All the signs are that Jorge Martinez is on his way out of Italy and Premiership bound.
The director of his Club, Catania has been quoted as saying, ‘We will sell him. We can’t stop the wind…’
Fiorentina and Genoa were interested but negotiations appeared to round in circles. The 27-year-old Uruguayan international, ‘El Malaka’, has had a great season by anyone’s standards. Front runners in the ‘race’ for his signature, say the Italians are Manchester City, who had expressed an interest some time ago.
The price would be in the region of £15 million, so with a suggested war chest of £150 million, City could afford to buy 10 of him. And that’s maths.
Well now, when it comes to football, one man has for many years been the most noticeable, the most controversial, and occasionally the most successful blogger this country has ever produced. His pithy words and abrasive style make him as famous off the pitch as he is on it.
This man is Escapini.
"I love football. Football she's a cruel mistress. She's, she's more than a mistress. She's a wife, she's a mother, she's a daughter, she's an errant child. She's a… she's a… she can make you laugh, she make you cry. She can bring tears me eyes. She can bring blood to me shoulders. She can bring a kettle to the boil."
"Cause football is about nothing, unless it's about something and what it is about, is football."
All the signs are that Jorge Martinez is on his way out of Italy and Premiership bound.
