How is it different to being away from his family when he was in Italy?
How is a club supposed to ensure that apart from asking the person himself?
A Spanish speaking Uruguayan living in Italy away from his family since the age of 18 would seem well placed for a switch.
it’s not like being picked out of your country & thrown directly in London like Martinelli was.
Italy and England are two extremely different countries. Even I know that and American are notoriously shoddy at geography.
No it isn’t, but they’re two different people with two different families and support systems. All I know about Martinelli’s background is his dad basically engineered him to be a professional footballer.
A lot of excitement when he signed but that being 5 years ago already is crazy. Wish it worked out better for him here. He never really recovered here after the disastrous start to the 19/20 season and the Emery experiment of pushing him further forward.