LA Galaxy president Chris Klein gave Forbes the play-by-play of how the deal with Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez came together
... [+]When news first leaked that Mexican soccer star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez might finally be making his way to Major League Soccer, the soccer world was set aflame. Rumors had long linked Chicharito to the league, and the Mexican star would immediately join the ranks of the best players to ever don an MLS uniform, alongside the likes of David Beckham, Thierry Henry, David Villa, Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The 31-year-old striker first moved across the Atlantic when he became Manchester United’s first-ever Mexican player in 2010. He left England in 2014 on a loan to Real Madrid, and he’s since made stops with the Bundesliga’s Bayer Leverkusen, the Premier League’s West Ham United and, most recently, La Liga club Sevilla FC.
“Negotiations started in December, in terms of seeing if there was an interest,” says Klein. “When we came back from break in early January, they picked up in earnest. And when we saw there was an opportunity for a winter move, things really kicked up.” Klein notes the winter transfer was important since the team wanted a player who could contribute from the get-go, not a summer-transfer addition who would show up more than halfway through the MLS season.
The LA Galaxy agreed to pay Sevilla a sizable transfer fee. A source with knowledge of the deal says the total payout is slightly higher than the $9.4 million that Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl; the team’s previous record was the $7 million it paid for Giovani dos Santos in 2015. Another source confirmed Wahl’s report that Chicharito will be Major League Soccer’s highest-paid player.
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