According to information from Noticias Caracol de Colombia, James Rodríguez “is already a new player for Everton in England.” The media points out that the English have closed the operation with Real Madrid to “acquire the sports rights of the Colombian midfielder.”
“James is already in Liverpool and signed a contract that binds him for three years with the team led by Carlo Ancelotti. In the next few hours, James Rodríguez will be officially presented, “the newscast announced.
The footballer had arrived in England since last Monday to negotiate the terms with the Toffee club. The English press speaks of an annual salary of 4.5 million euros, a figure much lower than what he earned in Madrid. The Premier League will be his fifth experience in European football and his sixth in international. I have already passed through Argentina (Banfield), Portugal (Porto), France (Monaco), Spain (Real Madrid) and Germany (Bayern Munich).
This will be James' reunion with Ancelotti, a coach who had him in his first stage with Madrid and who years later signed him for Bayern. The Italian coach knows him perfectly and will seek to return him to the elite of world football after a season in Spain where he barely played 14 games.