The other shoe has finally dropped. Real Madrid have put up nine players for sale, including their whole Dutch contingent. Joining Heinze, Saviola and Mahamadou Diarra on the transfer list are Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rosten Drenthe, Rafael Van der Vaart and perhaps most surprisingly, the young trio of Arjen Robben, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Wesley [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
AC Milan are reported to struggle keeping hold of their Brazilian star midfielder Kaka as reports emerged today that Real Madrid had agreed a world record €65m (£56m) transfer for the Brazilian super star. The 27-year-old has also been linked with Chelsea but he is the prime target of new Real president Florentino Perez, as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
Arsene Wenger has moved to silence speculation over his future after the Arsenal manager was linked with a move to Real Madrid. Wenger triggered reports that he could be prepared to leave the Gunners when he admitted that working at Real, if Florentino Perez wins the Spanish club’s upcoming presidental election, would be an “interesting project”. It [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
With the European football season drawing to a close the attention of the UK press is fully focused on transfer tittle-tattle and Tuesday’s big money move centres around Wigan Athletic winger Antonio Valencia. The Daily Mail ‘exclusively’ reveal that the Ecuador international is set to join Real Madrid after Latics boss Steve Bruce thrashed out a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday morning, another title gone up north and Arsenal fans wake up to the news that manager Arsene Wenger finds Real Madrid ‘interesting.’ Now this would be fine if it was the type of ‘interesting’ usually reserved for that person on the bus with tin foil on his head, but quotes attributed to the Frenchman in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
It’s been a busy week in the world of La Liga. Javier Saviola finally realised that he wasn’t a required player at Real Madrid, and if he actually wanted to be able to write the word ‘footballer’ as his occupation on his arrival card whenever he nicked back to Buenos Aires for a holiday, he [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Former Real Madrid player Steve McManaman called it the “Disneyfication of Real Madrid”; others scoffed at the idea as a bad science experiment gone wrong. If there was ever a time where football was at its peak of absurdity, this was most definitely the time. Los Galacticos. The mere mention of the two words together conjure [...]
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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