From the Venezuelan paper "El Universal" (curtesy of Google Translate)
http://www.eluniversal.com/opinion/150813/lord-salomon-rondonLord Salomon RondonEach goal from Salomon Rondon multiply its echo. Make no mistake: the arrival in England may be extraordinary for Catia born striker.
Some pouting with moving Rondon, because the front left Caracas Zenit St Petersburg, Russian champion and a regular competitor in the European Champions League, to join the West Bromwich Albion, a team with a long history (137 years), but today is much more concerned to avoid relegation to English football than seeking quotas in international tournaments. However, staying in this simple contrast is shortsighted. You will play in the Premier League, the most watched league in the world, a goal that was made public on several occasions, the player himself. Why not see the West Brom as a definitive springboard for him?
The Venezuelan, 25 years old, seems to be at the gates of his fullness as a player and it's time to see how far they can go. Where can you have greater long-term significance? In England or Russia? The answer is obvious. The Premier League has a global audience, according to the BBC, higher than the Spanish league, with all the might of Barcelona and Real Madrid, the Italian Serie A and German Bundesliga together. Their income, according to annual reports by consultancy Deloitte, doubling and tripling the other major European championships.
Let's face it: watch a game of the Russian Premier League obliged, at least from this side of the planet, looking for the green signal paths on the web by streamming and endure horrific incomprehensible transmissions speakers. Rondon enjoyed the moment of maximum exposure Zenit in the Champions League, but also spent long months away from the main centers of international football. Not so with West Brom. A goal in a match against clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool have an exponentially greater than any we have done in Russia resonance. No longer you have the Champions League, but the Premiership is a growth opportunity.
Russia also threatened to become a golden cage. The economic strength exhibited by large Russian clubs, including Zenit is, turns them into buyers, not sellers, and this hindered any transfer. The European press published notes on the interest from teams like Sevilla have Rondón, but the price of the transfer backed down. The whole of St. Petersburg paid 18 million euros for his transfer from Rubin Kazan and claimed that those reports sought to sell it for more.
Circumstances changed the landscape and dismantled the shielding on the Venezuelan. A new regulation in Russia, which limits the maximum six foreigners can align each team in each match, Rondon had claimed a victim. Missing from the starting XI André Villas-Boas at Zenit, the output was inevitable and the price happened to be negotiable. It appeared the West Bromwich, tabled 12 million pounds (17 million euros) and took him.
Nor it was cheaper, despite the change in circumstances. It is the most expensive signing you paid West Bromwich and this leads to an extra point analysis: Rondón is no one else.
A Rondon will give you command on the computer, because nobody does a record signing for him on the bench. Now up to him to answer. Since arriving in Europe in 2008, the former Aragua FC has scored 91 goals in 234 appearances commitments to UD Las Palmas, Malaga, Rubin Kazan and Zenit, adding all competitions. If you keep these figures, the experience at West Bromwich can be the final push it needs to assume ever greater challenges.
We will not see a James Rodriguez, a Luis Suarez Arturo Vidal or a Venezuelan passport by spontaneous generation, from one day to another, playing for Real Madrid in Barcelona or Juventus. Here it is evolving and the Premier League is an evolutionary leap for Salomon Rondon.