Luis Diaz was the man of the match in the FA Cup final. Photo: AP Photo / Ian Walton
Incredible but real, the star of the Colombian national team In those days he was close to having a totally different destiny. With his arrival at Porto he was able to fully exploit the potential of him and managed to convince Liverpool to shell out € 47,000,000! to get their services. However, years ago it could have taken a completely different path: They almost got it from Mexico for a much smaller amount.
Skillful, fast and incisive are some of the characteristics shown by the player who exploded in England in the last semester, where he won the FA Cup and League Cup, as well as fighting for the Premier League and being a Champions League finalist. Their stay in Merseyside has been fruitful and they hope that next season, which is about to begin, it will continue to be a success.
The Colombian has won two titles with the Reds. (REUTERS / Phil Noble)
another way
We are talking about Luis Díaz, of course. And now it is known that he could have had other destinations before landing in Europe. As Francisco Arredondo, journalist of Mediotiempo reveals, The farmer was close to reaching the MX League as a Junior and in exchange for a bargain, but on Aztec soil they gave him the thumbs down for a curious reason.
“Four years ago, Colombian Luis Díaz, a Liverpool player in England, was offered to Atlas’s then board, but they felt they didn’t see a future for the 21-year-old footballer“wrote the communicator in his column this Thursday.
He could have reached Mexico. (Junior Barranquilla).
Arredondo confirmed that they believed the offer was approaching very high and that it would not give them any income. “They rejected the proposal that was presented to them to take over the services of this Colombian footballer, which cost close to 1.5 million dollars, as it was believed that it would not be profitable to sign such a young foreign player”She said.
In particular the value of the Reds striker in 2018 was 250,000 euros and, although he painted for crack, the gamble could be risky. Just a year after that approach to Mexico, Díaz left Barranquilla and was sold to the Port in exchange for € 9,000,000. Today, according to the Transfermarkt website, Lucho has a market value of around 65 million euros.
exotic destination
When Lucho moved to Liverpool, an unprecedented story echoed in Pretoria. It turns out that inside the Mamelodi Sundowns closely followed in Diaz’s footsteps while he was at Junior de Barranquillabut due to inconvenience they could not proceed with the offer, the negotiations were squandered and it reached the Blue Dragons.
Porto has slept signing. (Paolo ELLIS / AFP)
We missed the opportunity to sign many other players, one of them has now signed for Liverpool, can you believe it? We should have hired him before he got to the port. We were above Diaz. Unfortunately, we were a day or two late and he signed for Porto. We looked at a lot of players. I don’t want to lie to you “Manqoba Mngqithi, the team’s technical assistant, revealed a few months ago.
The Mamelodi Sundowns, known as The Brazilians, were founded in 1970 and are one of the most popular teams in the area. In 2003 it was bought by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, a mining magnate and decided to acquire 51% of the club’s shares and then, in 2004, take over all of it.
Source: Clarin
