Tony Pulis has secured a promising Venezuelan forward who became available through a fresh Russian government law limiting foreign player numbersSalomón Rondón’s ride from Zenit St Petersburg to West Bromwich Albion began with a phone call from Tony Pulis to André Villas-Boas asking him whether there was any talent in Russia he should be looking at. The Zenit manager replied that because of fresh restrictions on foreign players – a direct diktat,it is said, from Vladimir Putin, and concerned by the national side’s poor performances in qualifying for Euro 2016 he was having to offload Rondón. The 25-year-old Venezuelan,he believed, would thrive in the Premier League.
There are a number of oddities about that paragraph, and starting with the fact that Pulis and Villas-Boas,whose styles of football are apparently so different, should be, or whether not necessarily friends,then at least close enough to ring each other for advice on signings.
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Source: theguardian.com