Carlos Puyol, a Barcelona player (just to be clear) has told the media that the only person who can take his place at Barcelona is none other than Real Madrid’s very own Sergio Ramos. Wonder why would he say that? Don’t think Real Madrid are as dumb as Barcelona to let go of their star player at such a young age.
Barcelona let go of their star player a decade ago when Inter Milan signed Ronaldo from Barcelona. In a single season at Barcelona, Ronaldo scored like 50 goals and still got transferred that is hilarious to say the least. Real Madrid, unfortunately do not make those kind of mistakes.
If a player performs well, we usually keep him. Or do we. I think I am going to have to go through all the transfers which Real Madrid have done in the past 10 years to check this fact. Sneijder comes to mind but he did not give a stellar performance in his last season at the Bernabeu so Real Madrid sold him, not say Real Madrid did right.
In the end Carlos Puyol admitted himself that it is unlikely that Real Madrid would sell Sergio Ramos to Barcelona because he thinks Real Madrid are not that stupid. We are not stupid at all, though we do make a lot of mistakes and don’t learn from them either, if that is what you call stupid then yes.
Real Madrid is stupid and while I write this down I am beginning to imagine (fearfully) a situation where Real Madrid strike a deal with Barcelona to exchange Sergio Ramos plus some cash with Lionel Messi such is the lust Florentino Perez has for offensive players.
Carlos Puyol has also said that though there is no chance of Barcelona signing Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos, he still wants Barcelona to give it a go, if nothing else it would at least hurt the stability of the club which is already not in it’s best shape at the moment.
And how can we not round up the news with Real Madrid’s transfer targets. Now the top of the lists are Vidic and Maicon. Apparently, Real Madrid are not willing to pay the high fee that Inter Milan want for Maicon. Nice to see Real Madrid showing some brains and at least question the price tag of a player.
Normally, clubs want double the amount of money for their player from Real Madrid than from any other club. Perez is a smart guy though he looks like a impulsive buyer. Not only has he said that about Maicon’s price tag but also has held talks with Liverpool.
I thought Liverpool would want at least 40 million to part with Gerrard but apparently they only want something like 25 million for their Captain but guess what?
Perez is not willing to pay that much for the 30 year old. He wants to pay something in the region between 15 to 20 million which I think would be quite a deal if it goes through, something about which I am deeply skeptical.
Vidic’s situation is also interesting. Reports say that he has attitude problems with Alex Ferguson and his chances of seeing any first team action next season are next to none though I think Alex Ferguson is not that dumb.
He is not just going to sit on the fact that he cannot count Vidic in, either Alex Ferguson is going to get rid of him as soon as he can and sign another defender or he is going to have a little chat with Vidic to sort things out.
Whatever happens, this transfer season has been a lot calmer and quieter than the last one where Perez just came in and went for broke very early on. May be it is because of the World Cup (well, of course it is because of the World Cup). Talking about the World Cup.
I saw the game Ivory Coast vs Portugal and C.Ronaldo did not play to the level we know he can play (I think we expected that). He does not seem to gel well with his national side. He tried his own tricks and dribbles but was cut off from the rest of the play for long periods of the game effectively by Ivory Coast defenders.
Though, C.Ronaldo showed glimpses of his genius when he unleashed a thunderbolt on Ivory Coast’s keeper but the ball hit the bar and stayed out. Long range effort came to nothing after C.Ronaldo brilliantly tricked a defender one way and went the other way to open up some space for the shot.
This was all in today’s news and I hope we do not hear the news of Real Madrid signing Di Maria any time soon, in fact I don’t want to hear it ever. I just don’t think he is Real Madrid stuff. More on that later. HALA MADRID!!!!
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