In a lightning maneuver, the Royal closed yesterday one of the most ambitious operations in its history. David
Silva (Arguineguín, 1986), top star dGuardiola's Manchester City in the last decade, campeon of the world with Spain and fundamental axis of the most glorious era of the state team between 2008 and 2012He will play for Real for the next two seasons, with the option of a third if both parties so wish. To their 3. 4
years, and after announcing a few weeks ago his intention to end his stage in the Premier League, Silva lands for free in Gipuzkoa, where he somehow began his professional career since he played on loan at Eibar in the 05/04 season .
The signing of Silva it became the bombshell of the summer when the market had not yet started to move. It is the consequence of an agile and forceful movement of the Real in response to the decision of the Real
Madrid to recover Martin
Odegaard. On Thursday of last week, 48 hours after assuming that the Norwegian would return to the Bernabéu, the Real set up its crisis cabinet to supply him and, in just four days, it has closed an operation of enormous prestige and scope.
La Real transferred the agent from Silva, who is his brother, the intention of talking about a possible incorporation and from the first moment they found a very receptive position. “Okay, let's talk,” was the response from the beginning of the Silva to the txuri urdin offer that, a few days later, has crystallized in an agreement for two seasons with the option of a third. Silva would be 37 years old at the end of that hypothetical third campaign but if he has shown something in this last season in the City it's that it's in perfect magazine condition, as evidenced by the fact that 'citizen' supporters implored it to continue.
Silva He had decided that his stage in the Premier had concluded and he has chosen the Real because he likes the style of play of the team, the youth of its members and believes that it adapts perfectly to their characteristics and what they need in these moments of his career.
These are the reasons that made him opt for the txuri urdin club once it appeared on the scene at the end of last week. In fact, although it had been speculated that Silva will play the next few years of his career in the Emirates or in Qatar and even yesterday the Valencia With an offer for three seasons, the Canarian player had a foot and a half in the Lazio from Rome. The agreement so that in his career he would continue to wear light blue was practically closed but the emergence of the Real has completely changed the scenario, taking the Anoeta entity to the footballer by the hand, anticipating a whole Lazio.
Silva, who played the last minutes in the game of Champions in which the City was eliminated against the Olympique of Lyon on Saturday, he is now on vacation in his native Canary Islands. La Real, in any case, closed the agreement from Donostia where the footballer will join in a few days, on a date yet to be determined.