While Colombia and Peru were battling it out at the Germán Becker stadium in Temuco, Chile, the less immediate future of Jackson Martínez was being thrashed out thousands of miles away, in Portugal. There, Atlético de Madrid's Miguel Ángel Gil and Porto president Pinto da Costa sat down to do business. In the last minutes of negotiations, common ground was finally found. All that is left to do now is get the contracts signed and hand the player his new red and white shirt.

Jackson's desire to go to Atlético was fundamental in sealing the deal. Atlético had been after the Colombian forward for some time, but then became distracted with the signing of Tévez, whom Simeone wanted very badly.

After Tévez finally rejected Atlético's advances, Miguel Ángel Gil managed to breathe life back into the abandoned negotiation process for Jackson. The time wasted has meant that 'Los Rojiblancos' have had to pay a little extra, as Porto had since had an offer from Milan and wanted at least the amount that the Italians were prepared to cough up. In the end, therefore, Jackson has cost Atlético €35 million.

The Colombian has become Atlético's second most expensive signing ever and with the €20 million purchase of Vietto, the Madrilenian club has now spent a whopping €55 million so far this summer. Jackson is to be the new man to join in the Atléti attack, alongside Griezmann and Fernando Torres.