Nándor
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i think raul will quit football and join josé as some sort of assistant coach. as far as i read, josé likes to have ex players at his side. it was speculated that he would chose figo for that job, but IMO, after what's said about his meeting with raul, chosing raul would be the smarter option. that would be the perfect scenario to "get rid of" raul smooth and quite.
thing is, the club rather wants to spend 40m € on a player that's already adapted to la liga instead of paying that amount for di maria who so far has according to josé only be able to shine in a minor competition.
not at all...with josé, you never have a secure starting XI or formation. he adapts both according to the opponent/situation or how the players trained. like he said, those who don't train hard/well, don't play.
but be that as it may, when jesús navas joins, it's him on the right wing and cristiano on the left wing.
he seems to have successfully managed his mind problems. i don't regard that as a problem. i do however regard del nido as a big problem
with those 4 players, josés demand will be done
after that, pérez & valdano will fill up the team, mostly with spaniards. otherwise the team will be short of players.there will apperently be leaving 7-8 players. the only two unknown factors are granero & raul.
- metzelder
- diarra
- gago
- VDV
- guti
- drenthe
- raul
- granero
once mourinhos demands are done (de rossi/gerrard, maicon, kolarov, di maria/navas), pérez & valdano will have their way in filling up, better said, bring in the replacements for the sold players. that's where players like david silva, jesús navas (again), javi martínez, canales, pedro león, (even) mata & a rumored striker galactico come into play. obviously not all at once
that's as far as theory/intention goes. how it will turn out, nobody really can tell. depends on lots of things like WC, player, club, money, man city fucking up most operations with their oil money etc...
finally, to answer that already, cause i sense this will come...yes, josé himself said something about 3-4 signins only. well, he is smart and the club leanred its lesson. josé already refused to tell names, saying that if real meantion a player once, his price goes up 1m €. they menation him 10 times, it's up 10m €, therefore he refuses to tell names in order to not make them more expensive.
same goes for the amount of players. as seen in the past, clubs act diffrently when the yknow real are on a shopping spree of 7-8 or more players.
keep it quite is the key word this summer. well, as quite as possible
