Real Madrid has signed their fourth player this summer with none other than the most promising, Karim Benzema. The deal was announced by the media hours before the official confirmation came from Lyon followed by a confirmation from Real Madrid. I understand some of the unsatisfied voices that wanted David Villa instead but consider this; people always criticized Señor Perez for not signing youth promising players and this deal shows that he has ...

UPDATE: Kaka's shirt number is "8".

UPDATE: You can watch the presentation live on Antena 3 Noticias

Hello,

Clearly a happy day for us Madridistas, our long-term dream has finally came true, Ricardo Kaka is finally being presented as a Real Madrid player.

             Ricardo's Big day schedule

 From RealMadrid.com

ANTICIPATED UNVEILING
He was the first player signed following the arrival of new President Florentino Perez..On Tuesday at 20:30 CET, Madridismo will witness an event that is just the beginning of the new project fans have been clamoring about. It will...

And here comes the official confirmation of Cristiano Ronaldo's move to Real Madrid. The club has just issued the following statement.

Real Madrid CF and Manchester United have signed the definitive agreement for the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Spanish club on 1 July.

The player will stay at Real Madrid for six seasons.

Ronaldo will be presented at the Santiago Bernabeu on 6 July.

The fee is $135m (95m euros -- 80m pounds). His salary is set to be 15m euros a year. His image rights will be divided 50-50. His shirt number is yet to be known, but it is most likely to be "9".

Real Madrid has officially announced through its official website that Raul Albiol is the club's third signing this season. The 23 year old center-back is set to sign a five-year contract with the club and will be presented next week after taking a medical exam and signing his contract. Raul Albiol is the first Spanish signing of the second Galagticos era and the first defensive reinforcement. According to Cadena Ser, Real Madrid paid Valencia €15m for the Spain international. 

RAUL ALBIOL STATISTICS AND BIO

Rau'l: hey Ronaldo, you can get Paris Hilton, but not that number ;)

It looks like that Ronaldo will put pen on paper sometime next week and possibly be presented on the same day or maybe later with Kaka after he has ended the dispute with Real Madrid over his image rights (he wanted 60-40 in his favour, but he'll now get 50) However, the question on the mind of Madridistas now is what number is Ronaldo going to get?

A while back, while Calderon was negotiating for a deal,  I reported that Ronaldo registered the "CR9" trademark (he also...

 Real Madrid made headlines when the deal to land Man Utd flamboyant winger Cristiano Ronaldo was announced almost two weeks ago. Some said 80M€ was a bargain deal for a player of CR7 caliber and some said that 80 mill is far too much to spend on a spoiled brat ( their word not mine).More over people dwells upon whether CR7 came searching to satisfy his l.o.v.e for the value of the madridismo and the sole of the best club in the world or he's searching to deepen his already very very deep pockets and well some also said that he got tired of the ladies in the UK its Madrid's ladies turn. A man can ponder but, it looks like Ronaldo is a greedy dude like so many people think.

According to the

Hello guys,

RealMadridTalk is always trying to get you the latest news and tidbits about the latest on Real Madrid, and today we will try to round up news from Madrid's-based sports newspaper AS.

As started its news about Los Galagticos saying:

Laborta knows that Ribery wants to leave to Real Madrid, Bayern Munich tells Barcelona to forget about Frank.

Florentino Perez "steals" Ribery from Barcelona.

Real Madrid offer could reach 25 million + Van Der Vaart and Wesley Snjeider

"Real Madrid or no other": the answer that " slammed" Laborta's effort.

It's coverage of the whites continued with a report about loans Real Madrid are getting from Spanish banks:

Caja Madrid Bank loans the club 76.6 Million...

I woke up today and turned my iPhone on to find an RSS item from the Guardian UK claiming that Florentino Perez is going to sell all of the Dutch players on the squad. Yes, including Sneijder, Huntelaar and Robben.

While I believe that players like Drenthe need to go, I don't understand why we would want to sell Huntelaar and Robben. The first is a predator when it comes to scoring goals and the second is a quality winger that we haven't found his replacment yet. As I said earlier on the blog, If we bring Ribery then we can sell Robben, and from the looks of it, signing Ribery at the moment is quite difficult considering the astronomical fee Bayern are asking.

However, in addition to Drenthe, we could offload Van Nistelrooy and Van der vaart and to some point Sneijder (since we now have...

Adam: I'm currently moving to a new city and so my updates on the blog won't be as often as they used to be. However, to make that up, there will be posts and views from other Madridistas and this post is the first one. If you'd like to contribute to the blog with an interesting article, please contact me at rajab (at) oleole.com

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Real Madrid Vs D.C. United Tickets

Adam,

 

If you still need tickets for Real Madrid vs. D.C. United, you can get single game tickets through this special pre-sale link and avoid the Ticketmaster fees.  Also we have a special designated section for Real Madrid supporters behind the West goal.  Please pass it ...