Showing posts with label Real Madrid. Show all posts
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Loyalty. I believe this is the thing that every football player should have. What I mean is loyalty to the club. What is the point of big transfer if two or three seasons later, they move out again. Yet, it is hArd to find player who can declare their loyalty to the club nowadays. Recently in this month, we see David Silva had signed a new contract with Valencia, washed away all the rumors saying that he will Leave the club.

Now, his international partner, had do the same. David Villa had finally signed a new agreement with Valencia, making him stay at Mestalla until 2014. David Villa is my favourite
player and he shows the quality that I think others should also have.

Loyalty. Yes, it is. Even though David Villa can easily transfer to a giant club like Real Madrid and Chelsea who had been interested to sign this key player for Spain's victory in Euro 2008, but he decided to stay. What he can get at Mestalla? Valencia could not promise him european championship and yet, he tells that what he think he can get at Bernabeu, he can get it too at Mestalla.

And this news will surely Valencia's new coach, Unai Emery. He will need this two player, Villa and Silva to improve the overall performance of Valencia. Yes, and Vicente also had keep his promise to the fans that he will not let Silva and Villa out at all cost. This is loyalty, a quality that hard to find in young players nowaday.

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Valencia had faced a horrible season last season, seeing two of their coach had been sacked. Lucky for them to escape from relegation, Valencia is lucky to retain their star from leaving the club including David Silva and David Villa. Now they have a new coach, Unai Emery who is the youngest coach that Valencia had hired and under him, Valencia is improving from day to day.

Valencia had crushed Real Madrid in their first match of Spanish Cup and is looking comfortable to maintain their cup title again this season. With one goal each from Mata, David Villa and and late goal from Vicente, the Emery's squad easily defeated the league champion last season.

This could a good example of how good Valencia today under a new coach. Everyone in the team is supporting him and they are looking good to give challenge to Real Madrid, Barcelona or other Spanish club for La Liga's title.

Yes, Valencia will be a big challenge for Real Madrid to retain their league title this season. Despite having a lot of attacking option, Real is seen to rely most on Ruud van Nistelrooy and maybe a bid of Klaas Jan Huntelaar will help them with the attacking. After Real, Barcelona and Villareal, Valencia is one of the choices of league winner this season.

With the dynamic duo, David Silva and David Villa, Valencia will surely rise and prove to the world why they survived from relegation last season.

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Luiz Felipe Scolari has taken the coach responsibility from Avram Grant last season after Chelsea fails to grab two most important titles which is UEFA Champion League and English Premier League title from their rival, Manchester United.

Since his arrival at Stamford Bridge last month, lots of improvement has been brought to Chelsea and obviously Chelsea is starting to transform to become a better team than last season. They have
a pretty good pre-season campaign where they have completed their Asia tour with all three wins against two China's club and also one from Malaysia.

With their new signin
g such as Deco and Jose Bosingwa, Chelsea becomes stronger and stronger. While Manchester United seems to have problem with their attacking option for the start of the season, Chelsea looks like a suitable candidate to become the title winner this upcoming season.

If before this, under 'The Special One' guidance, Chelsea has evolved to become one of the strongest team in Europe and yet the most unattractive one, with Scolari arrival, he tries to change that impression with changing the style of Chelsea's game.
Even though Scolari insists that his style is playing well and win, it might be hard for him as he has English players, not Brazilian. They do have different style of playing football but Scolari said that he will try the best to do what he is ordered to.

Who ordered him to implement Samba style to Chelsea? The Chelsea transformation is believed under the order of Roman Abramovich who want Scolari turn his club to become the most attractive and marketable. For a better option, Chelsea is also being reported to get the services from two Samba players, Kaka's and Robinho to Stamford Bridge.

But, both players most likely won't leave club this season as Real Madrid is reported to offer Robinho a new contract. Before, Robinho had told his club about his desire to play for Scolari but it is being rejected by the club. As a protest, Robinho refuses to follow Real for next match with Valencia. Can Scolari bring Robinho to Stamford Bridge before the transfer window is closed? Stay tuned with GoalZone for latest update.

And for Kaka's who has been Abramovich target since last season might not step his foot in England this season. Chelsea is being reported to break the record to offer Kaka' 100 million bid but Galliani had rejected the bid. Rumors then spread out that Chelsea is ready to increase their bid for AC Milan's star midfielder with 150 million. And recently The Times reported that this transfer most likely to happen next summer as AC Milan is said to consider the bid next summer as Kaka' also is said eager to team up again with his former Brazilian's coach at Stamford Bridge.

"They want us to play very well and win. It’s not just Mr Abramovich. But they need to understand that, sometimes, it’s difficult to play beautifully and win," according to Scolari.

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Everything is seemed not going well for Real Madrid this season. Even though they manage to retain La Liga league title last season with a huge advantage compared to their challengers, Villareal and Barcelona, this upcoming season maybe will not be as good as before. With Wesley Sneijder is unable to start the season due to injuries and Julio Baptista is leaving Bernabeu for AS Roma, Real Madrid is in crisis.

Despite they have lots of option for their offensive with Raul, Robinho, Javier Saviola and Higuain, but the only true striker in the team is Ruud van Nistelrooy. With Nistelrooy will be too old for playing in few more years, Real Madrid should really find another striker for backup, which at least can be a replacement for Nistelrooy when he retires. The attacking crisis of Real Madrid is become more obvious as Robinho starts to refuse to travel with his team for Supercopa campaign as his request to move to Stamford Bridge is not approved by the club. With Ronaldo's is surely will not fly to Real Madrid this season, obviously Real Madrid has to find a striker as soon as possible because lots of time has been wasted to lure Ronaldo's out of Old Trafford until they maybe not have enough time to buy another players.

But, what are strikers available for Real Madrid? They surely will want someone who can prove that they can become a perfect 'second Ruud' for the team. According this year transfer market, Real Madrid surely has l
ots of forward to choose from. Dimitar Berbatov, Didier Drogba, David Villa, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and the latest, Real Madrid seek a chance to bring in Karim Benzema to Bernabeu.

This maybe looks like a solution for Real but with lacks of time available, and plus they start do not have a lot of option anymore. With Drogba decided to remain at Chelsea and David Villa also had announced his loyalty to Valencia, their option become less and less. Meanwhile, Dimitar Berbatov most likely will become one of Red Devil's squad rather than be in Bernabeu.

Even though Real Madrid has launched a bid valued €25 million for Ajax's striker, Huntelaar but Huntelaar is also seemed to stay, relieving Marco van Basten even though he knows someday Huntelaar will go out but he really hopes it is not this season. So, with that, the only available striker for them is Karim Benzema but it is not that easy to bring him to Spain as Lyon's president has decided that Karim Benzema will only leave for €50 million. Surely, it is not worth is for a striker which is might only start his first season at the sub bench.

So, will Real Madrid able to find a new striker for them or they will just have to rely on their all time scorers, Raul and Nistelrooy? We will have to wait and see whether this crisis is going to be resolved.

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Transfer window is going to be closed soon. Big clubs try to bid their selected player as high as they can so that the player will play for them. Transfer window this season also is mixed with different kind of drama where loyalty of the players starts to be questioned. Ronaldo's saga also seems going to be end as Ronaldo himself has stated that he will stay at Old Trafford even though Real Madrid is seemed not going to give up on him. Here are top five transfers of the season based on my review.

The first one is Barcelona's creative midfielder, Deco who moves to Stamford
Bridge to team up again with his former Portugal coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari. His transfer has brought positive changes to the Blues squad and his role in Chelsea in undeniably important. John Terry himself as the captain of Chelsea has praised Deco for his outstanding performance to the squad.

Secondly is the transfer of Tottenham Hotspurs's striker, Robbie Keane who decided to join Rafa's squad at Anfield. With the arrival of Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid last season, Liverpool will surely need a partner for Torres so that the Reds's attacking is unstoppable. Keane is expected to build a good teamwork with Torres and Steven Gerrard.

Third, the transfer of Ronaldinho to AC Milan which had washed away all of the speculations about his future with Barcelona along this summer. Ronaldinho's performance last season is not good enough makes him being critic by the fan. He is also suffers from injuries, disallowing him to perform much for the Catal
an club. However, AC Milan decided to shine up Ronaldinho's name once again at San Siro which he will join his international friends there, Kaka' and Pato.

Fourth is the transfer of Arsenal's winger, Aliaksandr Hleb to Barcelona. Barcelona who is reported to be interested with this winger finally manages to lure him out from Arsene Wenger's side. Hleb's arrival at Nou Camp is seen as an option for Barca's new coach, Pep Guardiola to replace an empty seat which is leaved by Ronaldinho. The question is how good is Hleb actually to replace Ronaldinho?

The last one is the transfer of Hamburg's captain, Rafael Van der Vaart to Real Madrid. As transfer window is going to be closed soon, and they seem are not going to get Ronaldo, Van der Vaart is seemed to be a needed transfer by Real Madrid. This midfielder will bring a great impact to the team as their set piece taker; Wesley Sneijder is injured and unable to start the season with the squad. And at the same time, Van der Vaart arrives at Bernabeu, which I expected that he will take Sneijder's role with no problem at all.