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Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays To All Madridistas
Wednesday, 24 December 08, 04:13 AM · Comments (56)
I'd like to wish everyone who reads this blog a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday. I'd also like to wish the club's president, board, staff members, players and their families, the same.
I'm not gonna stop blogging through the holidays, so make sure to visit from time to time. We'll hopefully see a new signing in the next few days and it is rumored it'll be a winger!! So lets wait and see!!
Hala Madrid!
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I've read that we were very close to singing pennant...but everything collapsed afer Real were not willing to give him his wage demands....he was going to be presented today
Merry Christmas everyone and happy new year
hope that we will get all our titles back the next year, and I wish we'll sign Di maria before the next year, He'll be the best even better than messi
What do you all think about Real Madrid making a bid for Pennant? it looks like he is not coming now since his wage demands were very high.. Other possible targets for the right winger position are Ashley Young, Antonio Valencia, Angel Di Maria, Milos Krasic.. I read on a website that tottenham have listed aaron lennon as nontransferable so i believe he is out of the picture
Happy new year for all
Reply to Madridista4:
it wasn't very high...it was just 60,000 per week...whilst Real were offering just half...I can't understand why
Reply to Madridista4:
Are you serious?! We were going to sign Pennant? What is Padja thinking? This would probably be the worse signing ever. We were going to sign some one who was injured for a long time and who is thrd in the pecking order behind Reira and Babel. Why are we looking at English players who will more than likely not succeed like Aaron Lennon. We should look for spanish players like Silva who would be my ideal candidate or even Joaquin.
Reply to helmet_09:
THANK YOU, what is Calderon and Padja thinking signing these players that russian guy, pennant, and Zakora what a waste of money there is no way these players are the caliber that Real need. I feel as though Ramos even though i like him as the coach has not elevated his player prospects he is no longer at Tottenham were they can only afford decent players this is Real Madrid were players dream about going and we are trying to get pennant who can't even start for liverpool over kuyt and zakora, zakora really? enough said. Save money buy elite players Ribery, C. Ronaldo, Benzema, Silva, Villa over the summer.
Thank You I wish the same to everybody and Happy New Year!
Reply to alex:
you are absolutely right , i'm seeing all these 2nd mayb 3rd string players on our shopping list frustrated with such calls , i mean why would we need pennant ? why would real madrid be intrested in the liverpool bench warmers , I respect Juande but so far he is asking for poor names that he sees crucial for the team and most of us don't. Better wake up and realize he is couching a Class A team that should have class A players , and honestly I dont see Lass carrying any benefit to us we have many players capable of doing his job . and i really wish for zakora and milos the best in their teams WHERE THEY ACTUALLY BELONG... the Only 2 good names ive heard so far are Young and Di maria but not on the expense of VDV because it will be unfair like you all said selling VDV and keeping Guti. anyway wish you all one heck of a new year party.
merry Xmas folks---------------------------HALA MADRID
ohh why thank you and have a very happy new years!
Reply to redsNblues:
exactly what i have been thining. why are we going for engliss players like valencia, pennant, lennon when there are better players eligible for champions league right under our noses: silva, joaquin, mata, navas, capel. (i would love to have mata back)
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
p.s. valencia isn't english but you know what i meant
Happy holidays to my fellow Madridistas... Its look like the pennant deal is out the window which is good.. the right wingers that are still being talked about are milos krasic, antonio valencia, ashley young, angel di maria... Lennon is considered untranserable by tottenham which means he is also likey not coming.. Juande Ramos is looking at right wingers from england because he is familiar with them from his time at tottenham but i agree that we should also look else in different countries as in spain because i believe that david silva is an awesome player.. i believe juande ramos is not looking at players outside of england like for example di maria because he is unfamiliar with him and or milos krasic from russia... but just updating the right wing situation and the possible targets that are being talked about the most and are most likeliest are ashley young,angel di maria,antonio valencia, and milos krasic . HALA MADRID!!
merry christmas to all!
juande ramos is looking at second-class players because he's from tottenham and is used to it but real needs better players. i agree that most of the options which are being talked about are a waste of money. milos krasic is definitely not the real madrid level, i'm from russia and see the russian premier league, the level of the players there is very low.but juande ramos seems to like it..pavluchenko was bought for tottenham, there had been rumours about arshavin in real and now krasic..still i hope real doesn't sign anyone from russia, it would be an absolute waste of money.other options like valencia or pennant aren't good as well and i'm glad they didn't succeed in signing pennant. the only good option is di maria. but i think real should wait and sign some good players in summer. i agree that silva would be ideal but i don't think valencia would sell him. also real shouldn't sell vdv to buy someone new, vdv is an excellent player who looks really good in real and we should keep him.
anyway happy holidays to everyone!
hala madrid!
First of all, Merry Christmas everybody! Hope you enjoy yourselves. As for the Pennant bid, if there's any turht to it then this is really sad. You sign a bench-warmer to play at Real Madrid, the biggest if not best team in the world? What happened to Ribery, Silva and Di Maria? And i've only named the possible ones! Although i'm a great fan of young prospects, though Pennant is a reject who is 25 and still unproven. Common, how will Mijatovic learn? I think he needs to play Football Manager 09 and check all the players with high potentials
I'd be really dissapointed if we sign Pennant, not as much Krasic because I think Krasic is good enough. Though they're not the region we should be looking at. Out of the 60m> we saved in the summer, we've spent 40m and need to sign someone with quality with the remaining cash. We're Real Madrid, money should never be a problem and we need to look big before going lower. Hala Madrid! 
Don't know if it's a stupid idea...but could it be that they're signing Pennant as a short term measure and maybe they'll buy someone like Ribery or Di Maria in summer?Because good transfers in January are very difficult
Is it true that Di Maria is injured and will be out for a while? maybe that's whats stopping real madrid from getting him because i believe they want somebody right away starting with the vilarreal game on january 4th..
i think getting Pennant from Liverpool is a crazy and he is no needed in our team.My three favourites for the right wing are angel di maria,ashley young and david silva.They're are young.strong and good tactical.
OH MY GOD!! Diarra, Pennant, Huntelaar!! Be as positive or delusional as u want, diarra and pennant are rejects plain and simple! Hunter has for 3 years been overlooked by all the big clubs becoz even he is decent, he is wooden and isnt a 6yard predator like RVN. Also everyone is saying this is a great signing like they were about VDV, Mahamadou, Gago, Higuain, Heinze, Pepe and the list goes on...they are all average players and we have over the odds for them!! Hunter practically begged Man Utd to sign him and they said no. WHAT A JOKE!! Hala Madrid
And a very Happy New Real Madrid Year to you all! Let's go and take Barcelona now!
Today I read that Aulas, president of Lyon, said that Benz will stay in Lyon until 2010! Benzema have earlier this autumn been doubtful over a move 2009 because the World Championships in 2010.
If this is correct I want Real Madrid to buy his one leg so we can be certain to get the rest in 2010
Reply to Babz:
Babz, if i'm not wrong, this is like the tenth time someone on the blog has argued with you on the same subject. I agree, Diarra is over-priced but he's by no means a reject. He's wonderfully talented and it was his descision to leave both Arsenal and Chelsea. Jose was desperate to keep him and he forced his way out of Arsenal. You can't blame him though, he needed more first-team football. As for his time at Portsmouth, you should really know if you watch the Premiership that he was one of the best players last season. Though, he needs to prove that he has what it takes. As for Pennant, I doubt the board will take a step back from Drenthe and Palanca to Pennant. It's just retarded rumors. Huntelaar on the other hand will show you all what he can do. And it seems like you weren't following the summer properly. He was NOT desperate for them to sign him. Chelsea and Man Utd wanted Huntelaar, BAD. Ajax though were reluctant until they could use the excuse of no time to find a replacement and when Ajax came to their senses, we made use of it. You're talking like if Benzema comes to Real or Ribery, you'll be like they were desperate for Chelsea and Man Utd to sign them. Don't be silly. I'm pretty sure Huntelaar will prove his worth though I have doubts about Diarra's long term future. Hala Madrid!
UPDATE: Goal.com report:
While Los Merengues will be well covered on the domestic front, they will have to make a decision about which of their expensive new signings they will play in the Champions League.
Real Madrid will have a quandary on their hands after it was revealed that they can only register one of either Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Lassana Diarrà for the Champions League this term.
According to UEFA's law 17.17 regarding player registration, clubs can "register a maximum of three new eligible players for the remaining matches in the current competition. Such registration must be completed by February 1 2009 at the latest".
But it is the following law, 17.18, that Madrid must be concerned about most: "One player from the above quota of three who played UEFA club competition matches for another competing club in the current season may exceptionally be registered, provided that the player has not been field in the same competition for another club."
^^^^^^^^^^^ turns out my source was right
well real madrid said on their official website that they will make an argument for their case but if this does not work i bleieve madrid should choose huntelaar.. now this changes the wingers that we might of been lookin at and we will have to sign somebody that has not featured in uefa competitions. ashley young i think has. so maybe the targets now are antonio valencia or milos krasic
the solution to our problem is simple and easy
three magical words
SILVA SILVA SILVA
Silva, Di Maria and Ribery; our three solutions
The only 2 right wingers that have not played in UEFA competitions that Real Madrid have been looking at is Antonio Valencia and Jermaine Pennant.. This leaves out Ashley Young Angel Di Maria and Milos Krasic because all three have played in uefa cup this season.. so i believe the best choice for Real Madrid is to sign Antonio Valencia because he will be allowed to play in champions league and fight in Uefa to register both Huntelaar and Diarra
couldnt agree more my friend , I'd be really happy if i see ribery in white , but the problem is that he played with bayern in the champions league so we cant use him now but he is one breath taker and pure class .
We need a winger really bad that is both fit and capable of playing in the CL, and that leaves us with SILVA and Di maria and both are fantastic, anyway ill take any of these 3 esecialy ribery, too bad we cant use him in the CL , OR WE CAN BUY THEM ALL haha. HALA MADRID !
It is being reported on AS that Real Madrid have made an offer of 21 million for Angel Di Maria.. I dont understand though because he will not be allowed to play in the champions league this season.. looks like a move for the future more than now because he will be a great player in the future they are prolly after him now before anybody else get him.. it is also being reported on AS that Palanca will be remain with the team until end of season but will not be allowed to play in champions league.. Parejo will be allowed to play in champions leauge though
Reply to joe007:
ｉ totally agree with you Di Maria is even better than Ashley Young, in addition, Mijatovic is such a retard if he signs Pennant, a guy whom was even given up by Liverpool!! how would the team be succeed if this retard director keeps signing some useless players like Drenthe....
Reply to Daniel:
the version I heard is that manager Ramos opposes to the signing personally i hope the team can dismiss mijatovic as soon as possible if they wanna bring in more world-class players Signing Pennant, a guy whom was already taken off from the starting lineup by Benitez, will just sign in one more useless player like Drenthe.... so why not spend some more to sign some better players like(David Silva, Jesus Nevas, Di Maria, or Ashley Young) real madrid only spent 3000 millions for Garray and Van Der Vaart at summer.Im glad that we still have a smart manager even though the president and the director are retard)
Reply to TheAngelOfMadrid:
totally agreed
Pennant was already taken out from the starting lineup of Liverpool so i don't see the value of signing him since his wage demand is too high I think all the trouble that real madrid had in the transfering marking in these years were virtually brought about by Mijatovic. If he is willing to spend more for the bids Real could have signed more world class players there is no need to save money in winter cuz it's very urgent for real madrid to compete for La Liga and Champions league I prefer Di Maria or David Silva.
you are absolutely right i totally agree that's insane to sign a bench player from liverpool(they ain't no shit compared to our team) Mijatovic is such a retard, im so happy to see someone who shares the same thought with me your fav3 for right wing are all excellent. But honestly I am not so optimistic on this cuz I don't think sucker Mijatovic will pay about 2500mil euro for them.
i know its late but, HAPPY NEW YEAR MADRIDISTAS!
i know its late but, HAPPY NEW YEAR MADRIDISTAS!
Reply to Anti-Mijatovic :
i also agree but Silva,Di Maria or Ribery? its impossible to bring them in the winter transfers because their teams need them,Di Maria is possible but Silva and Ribery? NAh!
Fuck padja and Calderon they ruin real madrid our team will never be succeed if these two suckers don't get dismissed however, at least Calderon had the intention to sign world class players like Kaka, C.Ron, and David Villa, although the way he did it was dumped and ended up failing, his effort still deserves some credit. But Mijatovic didn't do anything to benefit the team. He refused Schester's suggestion on signings and is not willing to spend money he is a jerk who got our team through all this dark age. As a Madridista, i really hope our team can kick back to the level they used to be at. But i don't think my dream will soon come true since my precious real madrid is under Mijatovic's hand.
Reply to MadridPrince:
I also disagree about signing Valencia and Lennon, but I heard that the pennant bid was insisted only by our retard director Padja and Juande actually opposed to this bid. My suggestions are David Silva, Navas, and Di Maria. But I don't think Padja would be willing to spend money for their transfering fee. He always tryna save money by signing 2nd string players. That's why our team was doing so fuckedup b4 the break....!! it's a big fraustration for all real madrid fans to see the team spend big money on some useless players like drenthe, Marcelo, and Mel.., Good Luck Real Madrid!!
Reply to Anti-Mijatovic:
how can you call Marcelo and Drenthe useless?They're just 20 years old!One has to have patience with players in order for them to improve...just as we did with Higuain...I think everyone can remember all the goals he missed last yr...(he eventually only scored only 9) now it's his moment to shine....the same thing happened with Christiano Ronaldo...he was so bad that Real rejected him for free and he spent 3 years playing poorly at Man Utd.The list is endless...if Real want to improve their youth players they have to give them time and be patient!!!!!
Reply to Daniel:
but why not then be patient with our youth team players instead. drenthe and marcelo are useless but they have potential and are young. they should be loaned out for a minimum of 1 season to another team in spanish league. Drenthe needs to play regularly if he is to imrove. his touches on the ball are poor and a winger who is poor at passing, shooting and crossing is useless. marcelo needs to improve his defensive skills and to improve both the players need to play all season but not at the expense of madrid. right now i would play torres over marcelo and paalanca over drenthe. another idea would be to put these players in the youth team. not many big clubs in england buy young players and put them in the senior squad straight away. they let them develop in reserve team, this would also give a better idea to the coaching staff who to choose, e.g. if when madrid bought gago they put him in castilla then with him and de la red playing together we could have seen firstly who's better out of the two and secondly they could have developed an understanding with each other which made them awesome as a unit. this is just an example as i dont think gago was at such a low level to play in castilla
Reply to Daniel:
but why not then be patient with our youth team players instead. drenthe and marcelo are useless but they have potential and are young. they should be loaned out for a minimum of 1 season to another team in spanish league. Drenthe needs to play regularly if he is to imrove. his touches on the ball are poor and a winger who is poor at passing, shooting and crossing is useless. marcelo needs to improve his defensive skills and to improve both the players need to play all season but not at the expense of madrid. right now i would play torres over marcelo and paalanca over drenthe. another idea would be to put these players in the youth team. not many big clubs in england buy young players and put them in the senior squad straight away. they let them develop in reserve team, this would also give a better idea to the coaching staff who to choose, e.g. if when madrid bought gago they put him in castilla then with him and de la red playing together we could have seen firstly who's better out of the two and secondly they could have developed an understanding with each other which made them awesome as a unit. this is just an example as i dont think gago was at such a low level to play in castilla
Reply to MadridPrince:
Marcelo is not useless, what are you talking about!? Drenthe is very much useless but Marcelo is great. He's only 20 and I expect him to be World-Class in no time. Drenthe is nearly 22 though and he's not developing well enough. He has absolutely no end product and loaning him out is the best solution. Though I agree, Palanca should play over Drenthe but I would say Torres and Marcelo should be rotated.
Real Madrid have to get a right wing that hasnot played in uefa competitions this season if they want to have one to play in champions leauge... Antonio Valencia has not played. David Silva has been injured for 3 months and he just got back does anyone know for sure if he has played in uefa cup this season if he has not then we could sign him and he would be allowed to play in CL
Reply to TheAngelOfMadrid:
marcelo is good enough against all teams except the big ones. if a half decent winger comes up against him then he struggles. this can be seen in both the sevilla and valencia games where he was left for dead by joaquin and expecially navas, god knows how he will cope against liverpool (and hopefully the teams we face after liverpool in the CL). of course he can become top but at the moment he is very very inexperienced. he needs to be loaned out. i think he will either be another cicinho or a dani alves (but left footed version of course). i guess we wait and see
Reply to Daniel:
We can't afford to be patient "right now", i agree you said that we need to be give those youngsters more legitimate chance in real games and im happy to see Ramos promote some young players from second team, like Palanca, he plays way better than Drenthe my point is why not to aim at strengthen our youth system like our rival Barca did but spent money to bring some immature players from outside Gago and Higuain are excellent but have u ever counted how many turnovers Marcelo have ever made? He is a poor defender yes, he is still young but he can't afford to gamble with him since Heinze is also struggling this season. Drenthe is fast and knows how to dribble but he didn't know how to cross the ball into the box in the right time his cross usually got blocked of course, he has the potential to be a gd player but not right now he is not in this level yet not for real madrid and it's really funny that u used C. ROn as an example in the 2003-04 season Man Utd still had plenty of good players in the squad besides C.Ron yes real madrid now also have so many good players but most of them are injuried so it's really urgent to sign some players with good quality to replace those who would be out for this season. We can afford to wait now we are at the 5th place in La Liga and we need to fight liverpool in feb we can afford to rely on baby Drenthe and Marcelo to screwing around in the field every single match for real madrid is crucia and right now, if Robben has any problem...... i can't imagine how we are gonna end up this year. Did you watch the Derby against Barca, did u see the possessional ratio shots and fouls and did u see how poor drenthe played and how horrible marcelo's defense is against Neves of Sevilla? we need someone reliable on the starting lineup
I am not saying Marcelo is useless but he always has some soft turnovers and weakens the team's defense As a traditional Brazilian side back Marcelo does gd in offense but he lacks the sense in the defense end he doen't know when to go forward and always creates a lot of open space for the opponent for counter-attack he also sucks on covering back in the middle u pretty much can see the difference when u see Sergio Ramos playing cuz he is perfect he knows exactly when he should go up front and when to cover inside the box but of course Marcelo is only 20 he has room to improve once he develops his defensive skills better he will be fine and could be on the top ranking his tackles are already pretty good now but still lacks of consistency(like he struggled against Neves) I highly recommand real madrid to keep him on the squad but not as a starter But Drenthe......i got nth to say about him just loan him out Philip Lahm and Gael Clichiy are my recommadation and of course if we could have some better choice from the 2nd team why not
Marcelo will probably do very little in what is "improving his defensive skills"...because that's just the way he is...just like the way R.Carlos was.I think Marcelo could be very important on the left wing mostly if Robben gets injured again (hopefully not)....because then he will help the winger.I remind you the Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich match where R.Carlos simply gave the ball away and let the other team score....causing Real Madrid to get eliminated...and he was experienced!Everybody makes mistakes espescially someone who's Marcelo's age...however I do agree that Drenthe should be loaned out...and ideally to the same team from whom we buy the right winger....so he will have a great chance to play
but I don't think Marcelo should be loaned out.
Reply to MadridPrince:
i totally agree with what u said, and your advises on how to solve the problem is more precise than mine Thank God Real madrid can have a conscience fan like you they should be loaned out to gain more experience and if the club spend more time and effort on castilla we can have our"Xavi, Inesta, and Puyol somedayz Hala Real Madrid.
I've just read that Portsmouth are in talks for a loan deal for Drenthe
Reply to Daniel:
everyone knew how important R. Carlos was for real madrid back then since real madrid were more likely to put Zidane on the left and let R. Carlos's proper running to stir up the left wing. But he almost appeared to be a threat on the back line but no one can blame on him since he is the key for real madrid 's left wing(While Figo was on the right. But the key is how to eliminate some unnecessary turnovers, Maicon and Daniel Alves know appear to be more reliable on defense since they know when to go up and when to drop back even sergio ramos could do so but I admit that Marcelo is young nad has room to get better. But if you pay attention on how he did on one-one defense. He was awful against some good wingers. He always gives too much room for the opponent to cross this could be dangerous like the first goal we lost against Valencia Neves could easily cross the ball into the box without pressure Just like the Czech left back at AC milan, he is good on offense but he lacked a sense of what a sideback's essential responsibility is moreover, if we can get some more talented wingers(the biggest issue that real madrid should concern now) we don't need to rely on sideback to drive all the way down to the wing side and it can reduce Gago's work and thus strenthened the defense on the midfield. And i am not saying he must be loaned out but i don't think he is good enough to be a starter We need a more reliable one and we can afford to put a boom in the back. Imagine how scary to put him against Messi, C.Ron, or Neves. Even Miguel Torres and Heinze will be more reiable. I remind you one more time that there is no need to take risk on relying sidebacks on offensive end if 4-4-2 formation can have two good wingers. everyone from the backline should put defense a prioirity. Marcelo has space to improve and is still young. But we can't afford to gamble with his potential talent now.
Reply to Anti-Mijatovic :
What are you saying we should do then?I think that on the left back position we are perfectly balanced...we have a defensive left back (heinze)...and offensive left back (Marcelo)...and a "normal" left back (Torres)...I don't think that anything should be changed....we should play Marcelo whenever we need help up front and Heinze or Torres when we need help at the back
we don't need change on that position on this season since we can't do it on winter but if we can sign someone who can balance all the work up in summer why not? heinze should be the best choice on the team now but if he turns over as frequent as he did b4 he is injuried we need to look for a better one just like what u said, Marcelo can be a good choice for the coach when the team is losing and needs someone comes in and strengthen the flank. But we are able to sign a guy like Clichy and Lahm why not? they can do perfectly on both offense and defense yes it is perfectly balanced now only if you can put all three of them on the starting lineup at the same time. My point is that we are and we should almost look for the best. But it's all depending on how Heinze performs after he is back on january. I admit that if he can play at last yr's level our backline(Sergio, Pepe, Fabio, Heinze) is still one of the best in Europe and no change is needed. But if the team keeps struggling on defense(we've already lost 26 goal). it's all depending on the second half of this season. dude, im not tryna argue with you since all we are madrid'fans and want our team to play good. But i just wanna point out the fact that none of the three left backs is perfectly balanced, so why don't we just at least try to look for a better one.
Reply to Anti-Mijatovic:
No no I'm not agueing...it's just different opinions
but first everybody says that we should give our youth a chance (and I agree perfectly) but then you say we need players like Lahm and Clichy...try to realise that if we sign one of them Torres and Marcelo will basically have no chance of playing (mostly Marcelo)...and besides I personally like Torres loads and I think he's good enough to be a starter right now...Marcelo if not now exactly....in the future for sure.
yeah M.Torres is good choice and he is excellent on man-on-man marking and tackling all he needs is to gain more confidence on offense since his cross is not bad. If he can be more aggressive, i believe he will become one of the best in Spain in the future. anyway, i always hope Heinze can play with last year's quality in the second half season(we were the 2nd best defenseive team in La Liga last season) and i hope to see that consistency again. right now i just worry that our new signing can't play in CL.........Hala Real Madrid