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Italian club offers record price for Chilean soccer sensation(simple)

TUESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2011 01:29

WRITTEN BY JOE HINCHLIFFE

Chelsea counters Napoli’s US$17.5 million offer to “La U” for Eduardo Vargas.(simple)

Chelsea and Napoli will face off against one another in the Champions League round of 16 in February 2012, but the most recent clash between the two soccer giants is being waged off the field and centers on 22-year-old Chilean striker Eduardo Vargas.(compound)

Photo courtesy of Eduardo Vargas / Facebook.

Napoli, currently fifth in the Italian league, made a US$17.5 million offer for the center-forward from Universidad de Chile to join the club at which Diego Maradona reached the peak of his playing career, during lengthy negotiations between club officials on Friday.(complex)

Of the figure offered, US$8.8 million would go directly to Universidad de Chile, while the Cobreloa soccer club, which has a 35 percent stake in Vargas, would collect US$4.7 million (complex). The player and his agents would receive the rest of the sum(simple). In addition, Vargas would receive an annual salary of nearly US$1.4 million over a four year period.(simple)

News of the proposal, which comes after weeks of speculation surrounding the future of a player being touted by many as one of the next big things in world soccer, sparked an immediate counter-offer from Chelsea, the English soccer club owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.(complex)

Chelsea and Napoli have been among a host of big-name clubs, including Arsenal, Liverpool, Inter Milan and Valencia, that have reportedly been in the hunt for Vargas’s signature, while his current Santiago-based team has also stated its interest in retaining the lineup that made their 2011 season historic.(complex)

Vargas has been a central figure in “La U’s” campaign this year, in which they became the first Chilean side to take home the continent-wide Copa Sudamerica and have dominated the local league, winning the first of the season’s two championships and currently contesting the semi-finals of the second.(complex)

In the Copa Sudamerica Vargas finished not only as the highest goal scorer of 2011, but of all time(simple). He finished with 11 goals, many of them coming at key moments, including three of the four goals scored in the final, which was held over two matches.(compound).

The crucial role that Vargas played for La U in the Copa Sudamericana campaign was recognized when he was declared player of the tournament.(compound-complex)

Following news of the offer made by Napoli, Chelsea made a final effort to lure Vargas to England(simple). At US$12 million to be paid directly to La U, the Chelsea offer is lower than its Italian rivals, but it would allow the center forward to stay in Chile until June.(compound)

The extended timeline would enable Vargas to play in the Copa Libertadores, South America’s other continental club championships, and the older and more prestigious of the two(simple). La U’s Chilean rivals, Colo Colo, won the tournament 20 years ago, but La U has yet to clench it. (compound)

The proposal also includes an annual salary of nearly US$1.5 million over a four-year period.(simple)

Either deal would be a record signing for a Chilean club, superseding the US$11 million Bayer Leverkusen gave Colo Colo for Arturo Vidal in 2007 and the nearly US$9 million Villarreal paid for Matías Fernández, also to Colo Colo, in the same year.(compound)

Meanwhile Universidad de Chile officials are keeping their cards close to their chest.(simple)

“Nothing is signed(simple). We are not going to close the door on Eduardo Vargas until he signs the document(complex). We have advanced in the negotiations with Napoli, but Eduardo is still a La U player,”(compound) said club president, Federico Valdés.

By Joe Hinchliffe (editor@santiagotimes.cl)

Copyright 2011 – The Santiago Times

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/sports/soccer/23108-italian-club-offers-record-price-for-chilean-soccer-sensation

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