For their own (financial) data the two transfers exceed the limits of their budget. Fernando Cavenagi and Dimitris Christofi (if dressed in green) will be the two brightest acquisitions of APOEL and Omonia respectively, in the summer transfer window. Two football players, who will surely raise the level of the "eternals" and are expected to offer moments of football magic in our stadiums.
One, an attacker who has the goal in his blood and the other, an extremist who upsets the opposing defenses with his speed and penetration. The advantages of the two transfers are clearly more than their disadvantages and if their previous life continues, then their only winning teams will be proud of their acquisitions.
The tattoo of madness and the… paranoia with Jimmy
The 31-year-old Argentine striker is a classic case of a football player from Latin America. With long hair, lots of tattoos (the last one he hit depicted himself kissing the Copa Libertadores he lifted with River Plate a month ago) and madness, a bit of madness that stems from his explosive temperament. I have the opinion that as soon as he starts shaking the opponents' nets, he will become a slogan on the lips of the orange team (if he has not already done so), since his relationship with the ardent supporters of the teams he played for has always been excellent.
But what happened in Argentina a decade ago is unprecedented. At the age of 20 he became the first issue in the newspapers of his homeland, but not for his athletic achievements. At that time, "Cavigol" had left River Plate to move to Spartak Moscow and upon his return, in the winter to Argentina, he left everyone speechless.
A true child of the "millionaire", he did not miss the opportunity to be in the "Monumental", to take a place among River's hard-core fans, to sing slogans and to react as one of them. "I always wanted to do that, but I could not because I was on the pitch. "It was not the fans who invited me, but I called them myself to receive me among them", he stated characteristically and how much he cared that the criticism against him went… cloud. So will it be too late to become the new favorite of the southern horseshoe?
On the other hand, a different madness. Not of the footballer, but of the people of Omonia who do their best to dress Christofis in green and of course not to see him with the jersey of another team (APOEL). If this is not an unprecedented event, it will certainly be written in history.
The response of the friends of the "clover" is huge and the desire to give from their backwardness for Tzimis to return to Cyprus, reaches the limit of… paranoia. As of yesterday morning, all the websites and social media were filled with receipts from the deposits made in the account opened by extra-administrative friends of the greens, in order to collect the amount of his contract. But does anyone wrong them?
Christofi is a footballer who will raise the level of Omonia and in his good day he is able to win a game on his own. Fast, penetrating, strong, with a good shot and the ability to fight both at the two ends of the attack, as well as at the top, will drive away many (aggressive) worries from the mind of Costas Caiaphas.
His last season (2012-2013) in Cyprus, characteristic of his talent, took the then faltering team by the hand and gave it the exit to Europe. The fact that in the last game his teammates lifted him on their shoulders says a lot. Suppose that a possible return will have other side benefits for the club, such as the sale of season tickets, official appearances and of course it will drive away the murmurs and whining.
Source: Goal