Some mistakes (IMHO) you are making about RM players:
Sneijder: Played an awesome Euro but got injured in summer in a Friendly vs Arsenal. From that point he went tottally down. Night life, divorce, overweight. He didn't get fit back in the whole season. Not even a single good match. Seriously, if the guy doesn't change his new lifestyle, he is done for world class football.
Robben: Awesome dribbling skills and ninja dissapearing skills. He destroyed teams alone for a while in la Liga but tottally dissapeared against Liverpool at CL or Barça in Liga. That's not what a world class player should be like.
Van der Vaart: I also thought he was a middlefielder but he doesn't. He is not even an offensive middlefielder. He is a second striker. Gets tottally lost if he isn't near of the box, and does awesome combos and great shooting skills if he is.
Huntelaar: Pure striker. He is worthless outside of the box but deadly inside of it. The problem is that you need to give him the ball inside, he will manage to score if you do, but if the team needs teamplay he is useless (and that's what Real needed last season). Seriously, if this guy has the ball near inside the box, he scores (quite Van Nistelrooy-ish)
Ruud Van-Nistelrooy: He is 33-34 next season. Spent the whole last season recovering from surgery. That's a hard call, he can recover or be useless, but still you can make some € from him. I don't know what's going to happen.
And finally, about Pellegrini, I don't agree with you. He is Liga's Wegner. Created a Quarter/Semi finals CL team with a looooooooooow budget, unknown signings and a bunch of top class players nobody wanted (Pires, Riquelme (kicked out of Barça by then)). I think he is able to create a great team with RM resources but he needs to get heard, and I don't know if that's going to happen, because that was Florentino Perez biggest mistake last time. He is one of the best if not the best spanish bussiness man, but he might not believe he knows about football too.
In my opinion its just that Ronaldo isnt 1) worth THAT much 2) Real is STUPID for paying so MUCH because 3) Manu could never keep a player who doesnt want to play.. and thus 4) rm would have got c.r much cheaper for sure..
On June 12 2009 21:19 MaGic~PhiL wrote: Ribery is awesome. 40 mil is absolutely okey
In my opinion its just that Ronaldo isnt 1) worth THAT much 2) Real is STUPID for paying so MUCH because 3) Manu could never keep a player who doesnt want to play.. and thus 4) rm would have got c.r much cheaper for sure..
Nah, Ronaldo respects SAF too much not to actually play. But he probably had the desire to move, and SAF finally conceded.
ronaldo is way more marketable than ribery, younger, and slightly better. so him costing significantly more is not strange. but ribery is also arguably top 5 in the world, getting him for half the price of ronaldo is a good deal.
On June 12 2009 15:54 Telemako wrote: Some mistakes (IMHO) you are making about RM players:
Sneijder: Played an awesome Euro but got injured in summer in a Friendly vs Arsenal. From that point he went tottally down. Night life, divorce, overweight. He didn't get fit back in the whole season. Not even a single good match. Seriously, if the guy doesn't change his new lifestyle, he is done for world class football.
Robben: Awesome dribbling skills and ninja dissapearing skills. He destroyed teams alone for a while in la Liga but tottally dissapeared against Liverpool at CL or Barça in Liga. That's not what a world class player should be like.
Van der Vaart: I also thought he was a middlefielder but he doesn't. He is not even an offensive middlefielder. He is a second striker. Gets tottally lost if he isn't near of the box, and does awesome combos and great shooting skills if he is.
Huntelaar: Pure striker. He is worthless outside of the box but deadly inside of it. The problem is that you need to give him the ball inside, he will manage to score if you do, but if the team needs teamplay he is useless (and that's what Real needed last season). Seriously, if this guy has the ball near inside the box, he scores (quite Van Nistelrooy-ish)
Ruud Van-Nistelrooy: He is 33-34 next season. Spent the whole last season recovering from surgery. That's a hard call, he can recover or be useless, but still you can make some € from him. I don't know what's going to happen.
And finally, about Pellegrini, I don't agree with you. He is Liga's Wegner. Created a Quarter/Semi finals CL team with a looooooooooow budget, unknown signings and a bunch of top class players nobody wanted (Pires, Riquelme (kicked out of Barça by then)). I think he is able to create a great team with RM resources but he needs to get heard, and I don't know if that's going to happen, because that was Florentino Perez biggest mistake last time. He is one of the best if not the best spanish bussiness man, but he might not believe he knows about football too.
I agree with all of this except for Robben. Against Liverpool and Barcelona the whole team was pretty bad, putting the blame on just one player and saying he didn't do anything would not be right, besides i remember everytime he managed to touch the ball against the last Barca match he was the only one that created real danger.
On June 12 2009 02:50 Klive5ive wrote: Rofl at £80m. That certainly makes sense for United, I wonder if Real will manage to do anything with their new players.
I'm more interested in who Man U will buy to replace C Ronaldo with all that money.
the most likely is Valencia , but wouldn't surprise me if they go for Robben too
Valencia it by the looks of it. Some reports say they've offered £17.5m. Interestingly the Wigan chairman says SAF has watched Valencia every game this season and has been interested for a while. I guess it's a direct replacement. I expect this is only the beginning.
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