World Cup is Over. Spain are the champions. They beat Holland by a single goal. The match was literally littered with fouls and stoppages. In the end Spain played a CAPELLO game and just tried to find a way to win rather than play some their more more traditional flamboyant and more expansive style of play.
Nevertheless, 3 Real Madrid players were crowned Champions of the World on Sunday night but disappointingly, 7 Barcelona players also got to share the honor. Casillas was the star man for me no matter how many people credit Spain’s victory to Iniesta nad Xavi.
I think Casillas made some quite remarkable saves which kept Spain alive throughout the campaign. Anyway, enough about the World Cup and Spain, let come to Real Madrid where Jose Mourinho arrived just one day after the World Cup finals and has already begun his work.
He has told Raul that he is no longer a part of his plans (same fate for Guti as well) as he does not see Raul playing in the starting eleven anymore for Real Madrid. However, he has also told Raul that he can play a role similar to the one Marco Materazzi played in the Inter Dressing room as a cool head, under Mourinho.
Raul apparently does not like the idea of just motivating players and not doing anything himself on the pitch and has therefore has spent a week in the United states to relax and also negotiate with a couple of American football clubs for a possible transfer.
LA Galaxy seem to be interested in his services where he can possibly link up with David Beckham, his former Real Madrid teammate. One other news that caught my eye was Ronaldinho’s move to Flamengo seems imminent as he has told AC Milan that he wants to move to Brazil to play the last couple of years of his career.
Sad to see a player of Ronaldinho’s caliber ending his career (as in European club career) the way he is. I still think that if he keeps himself fit enough, he can play for any club in the world and can once again regain his status as the best play maker of the planet but that is also what I said about Ronaldo(Brazillian).
He did not improve his fitness and ended his career at top club level football a bit earlier then some would have expected.
Anyway, in the shock of the day section it has emerged that Jose Mourinho fancies Rafael Van Der Vaart over Kaka as his midfield play maker for next season at least. Which would mean that the 9 million a year Kaka could spent massive amounts of time warming the bench rather than playing on the field.
This has also triggered the old rumor again that Real Madrid are ready to sell Kaka to Chelsea for 56 million British pounds and then use that money to buy either Bastian Schweinstiger of Bayern Munich or Fernando Torres of Liverpool.
Talking about Liverpool, reports claim that Real Madrid have ended their pursuit of the Liverpool Captain Steven Gerrard. Liverpool have demanded a massive 70 million for the 30 year old and Perez has dropped his interest in Gerrard sighting his age as a problem.
A player that is still on Real Madrid’s radar is Maicon, who is desperately wanted at Real Madrid, both by Perez and Mourinho. Mourinho likes the idea of playing Ramos in the middle rather than on the right but the performances Ramos has put in this year’s edition of the World Cup has forced Mourinho to rethink his decision regarding Ramos and according to some Spanish reports, Mourinho now wants to sign a central defender.
That central defender could very well be Chellini of Juventus or Bruno Alves of Porto according to the media but I prefer Thiago Silva of AC Milan over both of these. He would cost much less and is much quicker than both Chellini and Alves.
Lets see what unfolds in the coming days as Mourinho also has to take decisions regarding the future of Drenthe and Pedro Leon of Getafe.
HALA MADRID!!!!
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