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Mourinho makes more plans for Real Madrid
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Jose Mourinho is now in his full stride as now for the first time (since becoming the new Real Madrid coach) he has the full squad for his training sessions. Hopefully, this will give him a lot more insights about a lot of players he has not been able to train till now.
I think we will have to accept the fact that Real Madrid are going to sell one of Lassana Diarra, Mohammadou Diarra and Fernando Gago. Given Diarra’s age, I think being the oldest of the 3, he will have to leave though I would have loved for him to stay at Real Madrid.
We need experienced players for the Champions League. Physical players who can rattle the midfield with their strength and tackling ability. Diarra is world class when it comes to breaking counter attacks or slowing them down. He is such a natural reader of the game. Can anticipate moves with great precision.
However, there is no way Mourinho can all of the defensive midfield guys in one squad so let us just wait and see, what Mourinho does in the upcoming weeks. Meanwhile, he has said that he wants one more defender and a striker as a back up to Higuain and Benzema.
The good news that I can read in those lines is that, is Mourinho actually counting on Benzema? that is great because I don’t Real Madrid to sell Benzema to Manchester United. That would be horrible to say the least. Benzema is an investment that Real Madrid made last season and there is no doubt that he will give Real Madrid a lot of things to cheer for in the near future.
Anyway, as I was saying. Mourinho wants another striker as he feels he does not want to get short on strikers if injuries do take their toll on Real Madrid next season. Another good thing from this statement is that he wants Cristiano Ronaldo do play at the wings, not as a striker upfront.
He feels Ronaldo can offer so much more on the wings or by playing a little bit closer to the defense than he was forced to play last season. With Ronaldo as the winger, this surely means that Angel Di Maria and Pedro Leon would largely be playing as back up wingers for the next season. May be even for the 2011-2012 season as well.
Mourinho also wants a defender. Which means that he will only sign one. This means, Real Madrid is either going to sign Maicon (highly probable) or Ashley Cole. I feel we need Ashley Cole a bit more as our left backs are not, what you call quality.
We have “ok” players in that position. The likes of Arbeloa and Marcelo can play there, but we need quality. Though it has to be said that our center of defense will be weaker if we only sign Ashley Cole as that would mean that Ramos would still play on the right, not in the center.
Mourinho has also been impressed the work ethic of Ronaldo. He feels that Manchester United have done a lot of work on him which has enabled Ronaldo to become the player he is today. Mourinho feels that the work that Ronaldo puts in, his training makes it easier for Mourinho to motivate other players to give that extra 10 percent.
I think Ronaldo has to work that hard. Because his game is 80-90 percent speed. He needs to maintain his weight and his fitness to keep up that pace. He is not like Messi or the old Ronaldo, they could rely on their touch on the ball and other tricks to go past defenders or to be useful to the team.
Ronaldo is a lot speed dependent in that respect. I’ll just end the post with the question “Should kaka be sold this summer?”. Something I am curious to write something about in the coming days.
HALA MADRID!!!!
