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Nándor

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You got to hand it to Pellegrini , after what Kaka did and apologizing to Manu the next day now Kaka is now "injured" :lol:
(probably similar to Guti injury after Alco game ) and he will not play vs Valladolid

According to Marca survey on who the fans want out it seems their plan to push Higuain out is yet a big failure the most votes went to (in order highest votes )

1- Metzelder
2- Gago
3- Momo Diarra
4- Drenthe
5- Raul
6- Dudek

quite a surprise people want Raul to leave more than they want Dudek


my favorite poll from MARCA was the one where you could chose your coach for the next season...despite MARCAs (IMO) stupid chase for pellegrinis head, madridistas just don't buy that bullshit. madridistas as well as both pérez & valdano apperntly have learned from the past mistakes. the goals that real have cannot be achieved in such a short time. success needs time and hard work...and pellegrini is the right coach to get the club where it wants to be.
in short: almost 70% gave their vote to pellegrini for the next season.

valdano said it all: i didn't hear the bernabeu call for his head.


Crap news but i would tell you we would consider Torres after his declarations last night

Benzema for Torres would be good


:lol: that would be beyond great...just imagine torres for real madrid :party00231: i can imagine the headline:

"florentino pérez brings 'el nino galactico' to the galaxy" :hooray:
 

Gnegneri

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It has been entertaining so far with Alcorcon and Lyon but no change of manager this summer would be boring.
 

Nándor

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you mean dangerous, cause pellegrini is on the right track;) it's only a matter of time before he will have the success in question.
 

Gnegneri

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Plus it seems that no one is able to hold the title longer than two years. We have to go back to the original dream team for that. Even one of the bad boys lately Schuster won the league with less quality players so.

Pellegrini's real (with or without capital) succes will be determined in the CL and Real have a long way to go.
 

Nándor

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schuster has won nothing!!! it was capellos work, especially the winning mentality and the fighting spirit he instilled into the players got real the league back then. schusters merits are no more than almost fucking up the title and taking 2 years till finally ruining capellos work.

may i remind you that, alledgedly schuster claimed higuain would !!!never!!! be able to score more than 12 goals in one season.
 

AnfieldEd

I am Leg End
£50m POUNDS plus Benzema, Alonso, Marcelo and Van Der Vaart and we could just about start negotiations!

What declarations last night anyway?!
 

Beast

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How do you solve a problem like Kaka?
By Didac Peyret - soccernet




"I'm not guilty of anything," said Kaka after Real Madrid's Champions League humbling at the hands of Lyon, but nine months after his £56 million move from AC Milan, the jury is still out on the Brazilian

The arrival of Kaka in June generated fevered excitement in the Spanish capital, the likes of which had not been seen since Zinedine Zidane made his world record move to the Bernabeu from Juventus in 2001.

However, since his arrival, Kaka has been a source of frustration for Madridistas. He has struggled to find his place in Madrid and his dream move has become something of a nightmare.

According to former Real director of football Arrigo Sacchi, anxiety has been consuming Kaka. "I have no doubt that the fans have not known the true Kaka," says Sacchi. "This is happening because the team is not playing well, because he has had fitness problems and because he must adjust to a new country and a new club. But he is a fantastic player. He loves his job and suffers from excessive strain; I feel sorry for him."

Kaka's statistics show that he has unbalanced Madrid's defending and has succeded with only 40% of his dribbles. As Publico recently explained, of the 30 players that have attempted the most dribbles in La Liga, the Brazilian has the worst success rate. Kaka has succeeded with just 36 of 90 dribbles, while Cristiano Ronaldo has succeeded with 55 of 94.

Kaka has also been wasteful with the ball at his feet. Only Marcelo has failed with more passes (269) than the playmaker, who has lost possession on 232 occasions. Indeed, as many as 25% of Kaka's passes have gone astray and he has lost the ball once every nine minutes on average.

There are myriad factors for why this classy midfielder is totally unrecognisable from the figure that appeared imperious for Milan. He appears to enter the field overexcited and has not demonstrated the explosive acceleration that he utilised so well in Serie A.

Sacchi charts the career of Kaka in terms of his behaviour. "Kaka is an introverted boy, with great sensitivity," says the former AC Milan manager. "He is a fantastic person but finds it hard to get used to new situations. He has class [though] and I don't think he is going to get demoralised. [Michel] Platini and [Marco] van Basten, for example, found it hard to settle into Italian football, but then succeeded. When you are on a new stage, it takes some time to recharge your self-esteem."

Indeed, in La Liga he has not enjoyed the same space that he did in Italy and he has played closer to the midfield than the forwards. In a team full of strikers, but with problems in their capacity for creativity, Kaka has not settled and has only shown flashes of his talent.

As another AC Milan great, Franco Baresi, said in El Pais: "He's not a midfielder, he is a striker. His best position is behind the forward. His game is more lucid the closer he is to the goalkeeper."




Kaka is at his best when making a devastating impact on a match. He is not the kind of player who is permanently connected to the game - like Xavi for example - and when asked to do so he becomes more predictable. Madrid have asked this of the player, most notably when Xabi Alonso was absent against Lyon. In Italy he was able to play more of an individual game, but in Madrid he cannot do the same. In the Spanish capital, it appears nobody knows how to solve a problem like Kaka.

Not everyone is pessimistic, though. Former Real coach Mariano Garcia Remon still retains confidence that the situation will be reversed.

"It reminds me of Zidane, who took a bit of time to adapt to a new team," he told El Mundo. "Anyway, the Kaka seen in Milan in recent years hasn't been the best Kaka. The player will grow up when Madrid grow in the way they play the game."

Robinho also has no doubts about his compatriot. "It's always the same in Madrid," says the former Real forward. "When things go wrong, they always blame foreigners. But Kaka is spectacular and will recover from this situation. For sure he is going to be a success in the shirt of Real Madrid and will achieve much success with the Brazil team."

But while a settled role with Real continues to elude Kaka, judgement will be withheld.
 

AnfieldEd

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If you think we will accept anything less than 50m then you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

I've read that already, thought you'd meant something ground breaking. ]

Do you honestly really believe torres will even for one miniscule second consider real madrid?!

I accept he will move on sooner rather than later. I also accept we will not see a dime of that money for players. The money will go in to the americans pockets.
 
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