The Slovak footballer has given up on a rich contract in Saudi Arabia to embrace the Atletico Madrid project. Here are the details of his passage to Spain.
David Hancko He lived a very hot summer. And we certainly do not refer to temperatures. The Slovak was very close to moving to the rich football of Saudi Arabia, destination al-Nassr, but in the end something went wrong. After several interviews, the player decided to move to Spain, toAtletico Madrid. A choice dictated by passion and, also, by the unconvincing project of the Asian club.
David Hancko, the Slovakian reveals the details of his agreement with Atletico Madrid
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Of all purchases made by Atletico Madrid in the summer transfer market session, David Hancko This is what he played most minutes after the first three Liga games (252). In a short time, Slovak has become an important player for Diego’s game Simeoneboth as a central and as a left back. Although the team has not collected good results, only 2 points, the performance of the ’97 class were admirable. Now the player is in retreat with his national team and tomorrow will return to Madrid to prepare for Sunday’s challenge against the Villarreal.
The same footballer, during the withdrawal with Slovakia, wanted to tell the details of his engagement with the Colchonerosdeclaring that his passage to Spain from Feyenoord he materialized “within a day and a half”, when the strong interest of theAl-nassr: “Only an offer arrived this summer, but it was incredible. So we had to sit and talk about it – says the ex Sparta Prague – From a certain point of view, it was not the ideal to have to drag my pregnant wife on the other side of the world to Riyadh, but he told me he would come there and that we could find an agreement“.
During a meeting that took place in Austria with the managers of the Saudi club, the Slovakian said he did not feel satisfied with the project and in the end the Simeone team, with a year and a half of delay: “When we started to hear that something was wrong, my agent made it known to the Atlético that they could still hire me, and Atlético did in a day and a half what we wanted it for a year and a half“.
However, Hancko did not hide the fact that if he had moved to Arabia he would have earned a lot more money: “I will not lie, that contract was simply … (smiles). If they compare the contracts, I should play for Atlético for 20 years to earn so much. And I have a five -year contract with them, while with the Al Nasr it was only four“, he concluded.
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