Andrei Arshavin To Real Madrid on Loan?
Wednesday, 12 November 08, 11:52 AM · Comments (28)
AS reveals that Andrei Arshavin could possibly move to Real Madrid in January on a six-month loan deal if his club, Zenit St Petersburg, agrees to negotiate and put him down at a reasonable price.
"How could I not want to go to Real Madrid, it's a great team, one of the best," Arshavin told the AS sports newspaper published on Wednesday.
"The only thing that I have said is that I want to leave Zenit next year at all costs" and "I think by the start of 2009 I will definitely be with another team.
"I have not come out in favor of another club. The most important thing now is not whether Real Madrid wants me or not, but rather if Zenit will let me leave,"
Real Madrid along with Barcelona and Tottenham tried to sign the striker last summer but Zenit's asking price was ridiculously high.
It would be really strange that someone would pay 25 million euros ($31 million) for me. The main thing is to put me down at a reasonable price," Arshavin continued.
Indeed as the player said himself, if he wants to leave, his club then needs to put him down at a reasonable price. To me, 25 million euros looks like a lot of money. I wouldn't pay more than 15 or 18 million euros.
However, Real Madrid plan is to play him for six months and see if he'd add anything to the team or not. If he does, then they'll have the option and priority to buy him,
While he is probably one of the finest strikers in Europe, I still wonder if he is the Real Madrid type and whether he'd fit well into the team and adapt to the Spanish lifestyle.
Well, lets see how this goes first...
Any thoughts?
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We need SOS changes,that is what we need!We need a victory against Valladolid,for Schuster,s life on the bench,we need Higuain,Pepe,Ramos to start every next game,we need Buenos,more Buenos in RealMadrid!Parejo,Brandao close to the first team!Why are our players every little time injured?Is it maybee also a question of training method?Arshavin is not a long term solution but maybee he could help if comes in winter!Some fresh blood is necessary whoever could it be
Arshavin is a good player. But there are some things that bother me. First he is quite old. Well he is not that old he is 27 or 28. if we are thinking of buying or having someone come in we should think younger 24 to 25. Second he is quite tempermental. He has had quite few bust ups in Russia. Third he wont fit into our system. We have higuain who can play as a second striker/ attacking midfielder. We also have Saviola who played this role in his days at River Plate. Van Der Vaart played the same role at Hamburg. We need a center back, a wing back, a winger, and a main striker. so we need three to four new players. Given the holes in our squad who does everyone think should come and why?
Although you are a hater i was telling everyone even before the season stars that's what we really needs,, defence and midfield,, and everyone was telling me no saying Real needs strikers,, David Villa and all that crap,, tell me if David Villa comes and scores 10 goal Real is going to concede 11... What Real need is a Gatuso in the middile to win balls and tackle and stand firm between defence and a CR7 so that other teams will be afraid to come forward because of the Counter attacking speed
Unless we can bring in miracles in Januaray, even the league is looking more ambitious 
Time for The Rabbit, Il Capitano and El Pipita to step up, we have to do without Robben for another month too, OH GOD, SAVE US 
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Given the past few sets of results, does the club really need to look at bringing in an inconsistent (though talented) striker? Surely there are better ways of spending money over the transfer window...
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A.Arshavin is a really talented player with a scoring (instinct) but what you guys need is a key play maker because i think saviola could do better than arshavin why waste your money on something you got already .... go for defence and midfield but thats just my opinion ... goodluck folks really really want to c madrid in the champions league next year cuz this year your toast HALA MADRID