Top 10 Football Stars on The Decline
4. Rodrigo Palacio
Palacio is currently playing for Internazionale as a striker in the Italian Serie A. Alot of promising young South American talent’s make their move from South America to Europe in their early 20’s, but that wasn’t the case with Rodrigo Palacio who moved to Europe at the age of 27 years when he joined Genoa from Boca Juniors for a fee of €1.4 million in 2009. He was in blistering form as Genoa player and attracted interest from Internazionale, in 2012 he signed for Inter Milan for €10.5 million as a replacement for Diego Milito who was at the decline of his career, well things turn around as Palacio is also on the decline of his career. During the 13/14 seaon, Palacio scored 17 league goals, the next season which is last season he only managed to find the back of the net eight times.