Edmundo to RBNY? Eeeeeeexcellent!

Possibly inspired by Chicago’s inevitably very, very ill-advised signing of the volatile (read: “Selfish locker room cancer”) Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Brazilian press reports are suggesting RBNY are considering a move for Palmeiras’ Edmundo. Supposedly, while the player wants to stay at his current club, if Red Bull were to offer him, say, $80,000/month, he’d be willing to make the move. Um, whoa. And RBNY would do this why, exactly? Because Clint Mathis isn’t crazy enough?

Now 36, Edmundo — aka The Animal — has scored an insane number of goals in his career (most of them in the Brazilian league) and played all over the world, including stints in Italy and Japan. Even at his advanced age with clearly diminished speed, he’s still productive and is the leading scorer in the São Paulo State Championship as we speak. Of course, he’s also a nutjob who, among other things, has been sentenced to jail time (never served) for a deadly car accident and lost his mind in a 1994 match against São Paulo, going completely postal and attacking several members of the opposing team.

So, yeah. I think it’s best to assume this is just someone in the Brazilian press making something up on a slow news day. Because this? Unmitigated disaster waiting to happen. That said, however, the meltdown would be fun as hell to watch.

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