The disastrous series of results in Brazilian championship had the merit to awake the president of the club Pauliste Marcelo Gouvea.
Surprised by the inefficiency of his attack however reinforced of Marcio Amoroso and conscious of the vacuum left by Luizão in manpower, the head of São Paulo FC decided to react in front of the Brazilian press:
“We need an attacker of experiment. Like Aloisio, of Atlético Paranaense, which will not sign on our premises or Washington who refused our offer. We direct our research apart from Brazil because this type of attackers are not in our country “the most serious option is the ex-Bayer Munich and Olympic Lyonese striker Giovane Elber, who currently plays in the Bundesliga in Borussia Mönchengladbach.
