Diego Forlan Bids Goodbye to Atletico and Signs for Inter Milan

The 32 year old Uruguayan International Diego Forlan has said officially goodbye to all the Atletico De Madrid fans in a Press Conference this afternoon. The player is on the verge of shutting the final details with Italian Club Inter Milan. As an Atletico de Madrid fan and follower I can only give publicly my sincere thanks to Forlan for the services given to the Club during his stay:

• 96 goals in 198 official games
• European Golden boot 2009 – 2010 with 32 goals
• Europa League Champion 2010
• European Super Cup 2010

Thank Diego, wish you all the luck in the World at Inter Milan.

Diego Forlan

However, once again the Atletico de Madrid Club Directors and their negotiating skills continue to baffle – at least me. The player was sold to Inter Milan for only 5M€ - yes, there is no typing error – and the Club will give that money directly to Diego Forlan because the Club owns Forlan 5M€ in salary payments. Therefore, Inter gets Diego Forlan for almost nothing and Atletico just watches as a valuable asset flys away. I have my own personal reasons that may make sense of this non – business action, but have no proof, thus will not comment, but you have to say after witnessing the outrageous 40M€ (+7M€) Falcao operation and now witnessing the Forlan transfer that Atletico – the Club – is a business “anomaly”.

The man about to substitute Forlan is young Portuguese 21 year winger/forward PIZZI from Sporting De Braga. Here too are “unexplained” transfer – signing questions, but if he can score goals why dig in the dirt.