I am now hearing that big-spending Premier League side Manchester City will replace their own departing front man Sergio Aguero with prolific AS Monaco striker Radamel Falcao at Eastlands next season.
City’s diminutive Argentina international is set to quit the north-west club when the summer transfer window reopens and finally seal his long-awaited dream move to the Santiago Bernabeu.
‘Kun’ would have joined Los Blancos when he left Atletico Madrid three years ago, only for Atleti to refuse to sanction such a move to their fierce city rivals, as was also the case with both Fernando Torres and Falcao himself when they departed the Vicente Calderon.
However, with Aguero said to be missing his young son, the striker wants to be closer to Benjamin who now lives in the Spanish capital with his mother and ‘Kun’s’ ex-wife, the daughter of Diego Maradona.
City asked the attacker to at least give it this season before making any rushed decisions on where his future may lie following the break-up of his marriage to Giannina last year.
But the player has since informed City that he intends to quit the club come the end of the campaign, with the Blues said to be determined to replace one South American goal poacher with another in the form of Colombia international Falaco, who is expected to have recovered from his serious knee-ligament injury by the summer.