Samuel Eto’o put a point behind his career over a year ago as a player for Qatar SC, but may return to football in the short term. Morris Pagniello, president of Racing Murcia, says that talks are currently underway with the 39-year-old Cameroonian. The club is currently playing in the Tercera División (the fourth level of Spanish football), but thinks it can lure Eto’o to the southeast of Spain thanks to rich investors.

“Right now, I estimate our chances of bringing in Samuel Eto’o fifty-fifty. We’ll know next week if we can bring him in. If that is not possible, we will have to draw up a plan B. We have several investors in Mexico and the UAE who can fund an agreement with Eto’o. If we can actually bring it in, it is up to the trainer to set it up, ”Pagniello says in conversation with Marca.

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Racing Murcia hopes to quickly complete the arrival of Eto’o, because they aspire to have the 118-time international of Cameroon by December 16. The Spanish fourth divisionist will face Levante, the current number eighteen of LaLiga, in the second round of the Copa del Rey in a month. Pagniello makes it clear that Racing Murcia wants to do everything to make the encounter with Levante ‘historic’. Incidentally, the club has also unsuccessfully proposed to play the cup match in the United Arab Emirates.

Last summer, Racing Murcia already strengthened itself with Mathias Pogba, the older brother of Paul Pogba who played for Sparta Rotterdam between 2016 and 2017. Should Eto’o follow him, it means that he will come out of retirement after more than a year. In September 2019, he ended an impressive career that took him successively through Real Madrid, Leganés, Espanyol, RCD Mallorca, Barcelona, ​​Internazionale, Anzhi, Chelsea, Everton, Sampdoria, Antalyaspor, Konyaspor and Qatar SC. Last week, Eto’o was in the news because he was involved in a car accident in Cameroon.