WHY ETO'O CHOSE Antalyaspor: TURKEY.

The four African golden ball almost tripled his salary and joins become a country attractive to football stars. Samuel Eto'o has not been fired from Sampdoria. But the very eccentric club president Maximo Ferrero did nothing to keep him in Genoa. Here's what he said in substance to the announcement of the departure of the Cameroon star.

Goodbye big man, your wish has been granted, it is not difficult to understand each football people, a handshake is enough ... ". Only six months after his arrival, the Cameroon striker has left Sampdoria to engage with the trick club Antalyaspor.


If He did not mark the spirits to his second spell in Italy (18 games, 13 starts for, 2 goals and 2 assists), the Pichichi could still gargling the symbolic title of best player of the season award from supporters and peacefully engage the lease year he had left the Samp.

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First, because Ferrero decided to revel a payroll become downright crippling. With a deficit of 25 million euros last season, the Italian club was heading straight into the wall. Great hope of the club, Obiang was sold to West Ham to 9,000,000 while Eder and Soriano were also placed on the market. With its million and a half euros of annual salary (twice with tax) and average yield rather, Eto'o (34) had become too great a burden for transalpine club.
The offer of Antalyaspor is arriving as a godsend for Samp who was quick to break his contract with former Lions captain without requiring any financial compensation. La Samp's not sad to see from Eto'o but what about the luimême player? Obviously, the attacker realizes above all a bargain that is not far from reminding her juicy getaway to Anzhi, where he won in the financial what he lost in sports. By yielding to the lure of Gültekin Gencer, the president "buzzer" Antalyaspor, Eto'o restores the rate at its monthly emoluments had drastically dropped to Sampdoria. He returns to nearly 4 million net of taxes and can retire without waiting too tap into the impressive war chest it has developed itself from dipping Dagestan.
But to reach the 11th club of his stratospheric career, the former Barca striker did not consider that money. He loved Genoa, the beautiful port city of Italy. He will love Antalya, sublime tourist haven in southern Turkey that caresses the Black Sea and seduced by its mild climate. Tourist capital of the Turkish Mediterranean coast, known as the "Turkish Riviera" Antalya is considered one of the most popular holiday resorts in the world with over 9 million annual tourists by 2010.

Van Persie, Nani (Fenerbahce), Podolski (Galatasaray) and Mbia (Trabzonspor) also joined Turkey this summer. Money and quality of life The Super Lig akin more to a new Eldorado for those players who want to raise, or sign a big contract last. Considered associations, clubs pay little or no tax, which allows them to offer very comfortable salaries to their players (€ 12.6 million for Drogba when he moved to Galatasaray 3.2 million euros for Sneijder, excluding bonuses). They also see their taxes capped at 15%. "Here we are exempt from taxation.
This offers a better chance of earning a living against the French Championship for example, "says Danny Nounkeu should go Galatasaray after being loaned to Granada (France) and Evian (France). Eto'o in Turkey so it's for money, but the quality of life better. In sporting terms, the Turkish league is getting stronger.

A sporting challenge "Compared with Europe and the Gulf countries, Turkey is a kind of antechamber. There are funds which are now much higher than in Europe and that can get closer to what is happening in the Gulf but with a level of competitiveness which remains the best, "said the newspaper L'Equipe Algerian Carl Medjani happened to Trabzonspor last year.