Ok, Spanish market update:

Barcelona:
They are doing a good job, fast signings and already proof their value in La Liga. They are out of money and are relying too much on the profit they are gonna make with their 3 star sales. Deco has rised his value this Euro but he and Dinho are arriving to the 30s.

Out:
Ronaldinho, Deco and Etoo. Stated by their new coach, Pep Guardiola. My bet is Deco and Etoo are going to Milan, Chelsea or Inter, randomly to the best buyer. Ronaldinho will go to a crappy team paying his fee.

In:
Martin Caceres (Center back, Uruguay, young talent), Keita (DMF, good performance at Sevilla), Dani Alves (best right back of the world two years ago, Sevilla didn't acept a 35million € offer from Chelsea and he was on a slump this year because of that. If he gets confident at Barça he will be outstanding again for sure).Gerard Piqué(thanks Musli)(spanish 21 yo center back from ManU, played several CL games at a high level, comes back home)

Interest in:
Abdebayor. It's made according to spanish press. 27 million €. They want him to complete Henry and Bojan Krkic footbally speaking.
Hleb. Also very close to be done.

Real Madrid:
Well, you already know the CR drama. IMO this is the worst thing RM could do. They are gonna get back to the Galacticos shit. High fees, jealousy on the group, bitches and parties. They should spend that 80 millions on Villa + Diego to retire Raúl + Guti.

Interest in:
Villa, Huntelaar, Diego, Lahm, Van der vaart...

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

June 21 2008 01:51 GMT

#824

Real Madrid should get Vargas q8D

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

June 21 2008 02:53 GMT

#825

You know, I was thinking.. what if Brasil doesn't make the World Cup? 0_o.. They're currently 5th (Top 4 qualify, 5th goes to a playoff with concacaf) and on horrible form with a shitty as hell midfield if I've ever seen one.

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

June 21 2008 04:01 GMT

#826

when Kaka and Ronaldinho recover from injuries they will start to win more games

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

June 21 2008 07:47 GMT

#827

On June 21 2008 11:53 FzeroXx wrote:
You know, I was thinking.. what if Brasil doesn't make the World Cup? 0_o.. They're currently 5th (Top 4 qualify, 5th goes to a playoff with concacaf) and on horrible form with a shitty as hell midfield if I've ever seen one.

Brazil steps it up when they want to.

Musli

Poland5130 Posts

June 21 2008 09:27 GMT

#828

I would add to Telemekako's summary that also Gerard Pique returned to Barca after his adventure with Real Zaragoza and Manchester United. He is young (21) and played really nice when in Zaragoza. In Man U he was a sub who hardly had chances to play thus when he got in he was in a shaky shape - sometimes he played nice, sometimes not. No wonder cuz you cant have a long-term good shape when you play so little. Still he is Catalan and he will be for sure a good replacement for Thuram and who knows, maybe he will replace Puyol when the time comes.

And we still dont know where Getafe players such as Ruben De La Red and Esteban Granero will end up. They are to play in R.Madrid but Getafe would like them to stay. It should be known in about a week I think.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

June 21 2008 11:57 GMT

#829

Yea I don't understand why they let Pique go, probably thought that Johnny Evans was enough. We did a great job buying Rossi and Pique for cheap and raised them into promising players but then sold both for minimum profit.

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

June 22 2008 20:08 GMT

#830

News came out today that Arshavin wants to go to Barca, YAY.

kidd

United States2848 Posts

June 22 2008 20:10 GMT

#831

On June 23 2008 05:08 FzeroXx wrote:
News came out today that Arshavin wants to go to Barca, YAY.

I heard he really can't go anywhere because the Russian government pays his salary for his club. Also I heard he was linked to Arsenal, not Barca

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

June 22 2008 20:12 GMT

#832

http://www.goal.com/en-US/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=747138

I heard the Arsenal link earlier in the week too, but it looks like *he* wants to play for Barcelona.

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

June 22 2008 22:57 GMT

#833

well every player wants to go to Barca/ RM -_- wether Barca want him is another story.

There are rumors that Adebayor, Pirlo (exchange with Samuel Eto'o), Bervatov

Real Madrid:
Javi Garcia (Osasuna, back from loan)
Pablo García (Murcía, back from loan)
Granero (getafe,back from loan)
Garay (Racing Santander, will continue in this team one more year on loan)

SF-Fork

Russian Federation1401 Posts

June 22 2008 23:25 GMT

#834

On June 23 2008 05:10 kidd wrote:

Show nested quote +

I heard he really can't go anywhere because the Russian government pays his salary for his club. Also I heard he was linked to Arsenal, not Barca

That is kind of stupid... Gazprom pays for his salary, not only his but of all Zenit. The own Zenit... If he wants to leave and gets a good offer, he'll leave.

SF-Fork

Russian Federation1401 Posts

June 22 2008 23:25 GMT

#835

On June 23 2008 07:57 ilj.psa wrote:
well every player wants to go to Barca/ RM -_- wether Barca want him is another story.

There are rumors that Adebayor, Pirlo (exchange with Samuel Eto'o), Bervatov

Real Madrid:
Javi Garcia (Osasuna, back from loan)
Pablo García (Murcía, back from loan)
Granero (getafe,back from loan)
Garay (Racing Santander, will continue in this team one more year on loan)

ahhh, so many future talented players lost to RM bench...

Ra.Xor.2

United States1784 Posts

June 22 2008 23:32 GMT

#836

Dinho and Et'to probably won't get signed till the end of summer due to their price tags, teams will probably wait until a lot later for their prices to (hopefully) sink. And why is Barca getting... ANOTHER STRIKER? i know that ettos going, but they have henry and bojan. 2 strikers and a backup is enough for a 4-3-3 formation, so i'm thinking that the new manager is probably gonna play something differant (finally).

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

June 23 2008 00:51 GMT

#837

na theres no price tag for Chelsea, Dinho said he wanted to go there. dunno about Eto'o probably will end up in Milan

Ra.Xor.2

United States1784 Posts

June 23 2008 19:09 GMT

#838

I think Real is wayyy too rich XD. Says on ESPN Soccernet, that Real are willing to pay 80 million euros, thats about 100 million dollars people, to get Ronaldo. To my knowledge, that would be, by a long shot, the largest transfer fee for any player in history. So where does Real get all that money?? Their stadium's not that large and no sponsor would give hundreds of millions a year for transfers. Quite puzzling.

Musli

Poland5130 Posts

June 23 2008 19:14 GMT

#839

They are already in huge debts but as long as city (Madrid) supports them financially they will be able to make such mindless transfers. GL to them >_<

Telemako

Spain1636 Posts

June 23 2008 19:19 GMT

#840

Real Madrid sold their old training grounds that where inside Madrid for more than 250 million euros (they are gonna build business buildings, a hotel, etc). Madrid "townhall" was the buyer, probably a dirty business because our former president Florentino Perez is a strong businessman with friends on politics. The money was enough to build another and top line training grounds and pay their historical debt, so Musli is wrong, the debt is gone, that's why they surpased/tied ManU as the richest team of the world. That was 4 years ago. They signed also this year a 200 million euro contract giving their TV rights for 4 years. Add that the % of image rights over world star players and you'll solve your puzzle.