Villa knows it's his last move to make /win something on the club level... choose Barca or Real should be the same for him.. both great teams capable of winning trophies.. but his problem is his club accepting bids.. or accepting a suitable bid.. lets not forget that Valencia main asset is Villa .. without him and Silva they have nothing to bargain for .. Mata would probably cost the same as Albiol... so it's down to the David's ..
If Valdano words are true then we will be looking elsewhere .. but i know this club so much and the current management to believe what we read in the press when it comes to transfers ... Albiol at the end could be testing waters to see the fans reactions to selling a player to Real.. Che fans always had problems selling to the big 2.. and we have a recent bitter history when Mijatovic moved to Real from Valencia.. it triggered lot of bad blood afterwards starting from Mendieta although it never stopped us shipping Canizares , Helguera..etc to Valencia
yup...that's exactly what i found very odd about the albiol move. they refused to sell villa to madrid, but the sale of albiol, who unlike villa is a valencia product, went smooth and to a fair price.
despite valdanos claims that it's not about the money, let's be honest...it is more about the money than about antimadridismo. if it was pure antimadridismo, there would have been no way they sold albiol to madrid. especially not for 15m €. IMHO, at the time the deal failed due to valencia breaking their word, it was because of two things...money and cheap theatrics by llorente in order to put his face into the camera, get his 15 minutes and become famous as "he who cannot be seduced by pérez".
now, things may be diffrent. they may actually be testing the water. i guess it depends all on villa now, like i said before.
Villa will not play for Barca ATM.. Villa will play next season which means everything is back on the table...Real reinforced well to level the odds..
... it's down to his preference.. he chose Real until Valencia said we are not selling.. now u go and try to attempt a bid.. good luck with that ..
I beg to differ COMPLETELY Barca need a striker more then we do if E2 leave but not Real
.. ..the only thing Villa will give Real is speed.. not goals.. we don't have problems in that department in case you didn't notice ..
Ruud & Hunter are 20 + strikers..
Higuain matured and reached the same level of goals 20 + Negredo is a 19 goal striker.. there is absolutely NOTHING Villa can add to Real except speed upfront. <---- FULL STOP
(note i didn't mention Raul who also scored 20 + this season overall )
that's why i said Villa is a luxury buy not a need to buy like Kaka or CR (winger )
i would have agreed on that about a week ago. but now i'm very clear on one thing. villa is a priority and needed, BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT BENZEMA AS AN ALTERNATIVE!!!
seriously, the chances of madrid not signing an alternate striker to villa and keep the status quo instead are below 5%. there is almost certainly a new striker arriving and if it's not villa, it'll be most likely benzema (65% think he a the right alternative to villa [AS poll]). that's exactly why i changed my mind on the matter, villa is a must
When Barça played Madrid back in May, the difference between the two sides was huge. Barça could have scored 10 if they needed to. Madrid's two goals were perfectly fair, no excuses. I'm just saying that Barça completely outclassed Madrid & dominated from midfield forward. Yeah, I see the connection but I didn't say the lliga or the derby were reasons for your failures in Europe.