In a long interview on Sunderland AFC:s official website, Ricky Alvarez promises to be a pest to Premier League defences after the team’s coach Gus Poyet lured him to Wearside. The Argentinian national can’t wait to make his debut against Tottenham Hotspur this weekend after helping his country get a revenge on Germany in last week’s friendly. Alvarez is hoping to become a regular for his new club and more than a substitute for his country, and promises the fans to give his best. The Inter player is on loan for a season with a possible £8.5 million summer transfer if he proves to be the solution to the club’s need for creativity. This week he will be training with his new teammates for the first time after scoring 11 goals in 73 games for Inter.
On his strengths: “My strengths? I am an attacking player, the sort who likes to create opportunities, to create problems for the opposition. When our team does not have the ball I like to help defensively because that is extremely important nowadays that players know how to do both of these.”
On his new club and coach: “I am looking forward to getting underway, very keen. I am very happy to be here and it is a new challenge for me. I have had the chance to speak with Poyet on a couple of occasions and he spoke to be about his desire and how keen he was to have me here. That made me very hopeful and I can wait to get training with the rest of the squad.”
On the Premier League: “I always wanted to come to England. The Premier League is the best league in the world so the idea to come here was one I liked. I will work hard and go about things the right way.”
Alvarez played a few minutes against Germany in the 4-2 win and said: “Playing for the Argentina national side is always a dream and whenever I get the chance to do so it fills me with pride. I hope to do well here at Sunderland, to continue playing for the national side. But am I ready for Spurs on Saturday? Yes yes. I am going to be training this week with the side and if the manager decides then yes I am ready.”
Source: fcinternews.it
It did work out for him at Inter. His physique and speed of thought let him down but will only improve with age as argentines do… we made a mistake in selling him.
we didnt make a mistake in selling him, when we got him he was supposed to be the next big thing coming out velez, but we waited and waited for yrs and never saw anyth big from him, so it was a very good sale, look at kovacic he came in much younger but made a bigger impact than alvarez eventhough kovacic lacked experience at the beginning, but look at him now he is living up to his hype in less than 2 yrs
2 season ago he single handedly bring Inter up even tho in the end we still ended in 7th place, because other player let us down and so many injuries occurs
I love Ricky. He got skills, he is smart… However, maybe because of the injuries, maybe because he was played out of his natural position, maybe because of the pressure of playing on a big club (with crazy fans) during a rebuild process, but the truth is that he is/was very inconsistent. He had enough time to show his potential. After 3 yrs, he was not going to become a star at inter that is for sure. So, I think for his own good and for the benefit of the club it was necessary to sell him. I really hope him the best, I expect him to shine there so that he can show all his critics how good he can be.
Good luck Ricky. I really hope you stay injury free and are able to shown all your potential, like Counthinho did. Too bad it didn’t work out for you at inter. Now on the other hand, Give me a break, I think is too soon for you to say that English premier league is the “the best league in the world”