Madrid budget strain favours City?

[john@staustell]

Elmundo deportivo which specialises in Madrid stuff has an article 'they always ask Perez for more money'.

It suggests that with Mourinho's arrival he has to invest ANOTHER 100M euros in Real for transfers, and they still ask for more, or he may have to limit it.

With regard to Maicon, currently Inter want €35M and no player exchange, and have the nod of the player obviously, yet El City will be disposed to pay more.

With regard to Kolarov (whatever Bobby said) Lazio want €20M whilst Real have made 2 offers of €16 and €18. City will offer €22M. As with the usual Madrid practice they are relying on the player to put preesure on the club to accept the Real offer.

Benfica want €35M off Real for Di Maria and Sevilla want the €60M clause off Madrid for Jesús Navas, whioch they wont/cant pay.

As for Silva, Valencia want €30M and City will beat Madrid's offer.

They are trying to trade any or all of Van der Vaart, Drenthe, Gago, Garay, Mahamadou Diarra in these deals (+possibly Raúl or Guti).

AS reckons that City have just made an offer to Fernando Torres, who has just regained his best form in Spain training. The offer is for €12M per annum, the best paid player in the PL. The problem is that Liverpool are desperate to keep him and it will need an offer of €70M to get them to sell (all down to the player I reckon).

Sport.es of course reckon that Alves is trying to persuade Robson that his future lies at Barca - either he's a daft bugger or maybe he can't stand Ibrahimovic!?

MD also reckons that the Touré transfer will be easy compared to Ibrahimovic. They now mentio €25M as the Touré figure, which sounds more likely. As for Ibra they reckon €40M should do it, plus at least matching his Barca wages, although officially of course he's not for sale. But he just spent a few days in the same Florida hotel as Ancellotti - one of those football coincidences I'm sure.

Incidentally the comments on all these stories are generally that Barca fans dont want to lose either, one saying Ibra is the most classy striker on the planet since Van Basten. (Maybe it was his mum).

[Vhero]

Looking good for us all around. I like the fact that real don't actually have any money to spend like last year unless they sell. They can't afford a Galacticos every single year.

[irblinx]

Looking good for us all around. I like the fact that real don't actually have any money to spend like last year unless they sell. They can't afford a Galacticos every single year.

To be fair didn't they buy about 4 last season? So on average they can afford one per season

[brite blu sky]

At the time last year, everyone was thinking that Perez pushed it to the limit on spending.. he came back in to Real on the back of creating a new Galacticos era.. and the talk at the time was that if it didn't work then Perez and Real would be in some difficulty. That seems like a slight overreaction now.. but it is difficult to imagine they can really spend that much this year without offloading players.
The whole circus that would be kicked off by Real.. buying or selling i think will have something to do with who Mourinho wants to bring in. If he wants Prem player like Gerrard, that will have to wait until after the WC.. so the whole circus of deals that have connection with Real will all have to wait.

Also the Alves thing was funny.. he was saying that he hoped Robson could come to Barca, because they are best mates and are the biggest jokers in the Brazil squad ! i think you can take that in two different ways!

[john@staustell]

A bit more on Kolarov from Marca quoting Italian 'Il Corriere dello Sport' :

Manchester City are joining the chase for Aleksandar Kolarov, according to the Italian media. 'Il Corriere dello Sport' reports that the English outfit wants to sign the Lazio left-sided player, despite the player's intention to transfer to Real.

Again according to this paper, the offer of City will be €18M, €3M more than Real Madrid are initially prepared to lay out. City have also raised the possibility of including Roque Santa Cruz in the deal, but the salary of the Paraguayan is too high for Lazio's econimic situation.

"El Manchester City se suma a la puja por Aleksandar Kolarov, según la prensa italiana. El concreto, 'Il Corriere dello Sport' asegura que el conjunto inglés pretende fichar al lateral zurdo de la Lazio, pese a que la intención del jugador es ser traspasado al Real Madrid.

Siempre según el citado medio, la oferta del conjunto inglés por Kolarov sería de 18 millones de euros, tres más de la cifra que, en principio, estaría dispuesto a abonar el Real Madrid. El City también habría barajado la opción de incluir en el trato a Roque Santa Cruz, pero el salario del paraguayo es demasiado alto para las posibilidades económicas de la Lazio"

[Grob]

Thanks John, its always interesting to see whats being said in other countries tabloids.

I personally think we bid for Madrids and other big clubs targets to help negotiations for other targets. You can have this one if you drop out of the bidding and let us have that one....

My transfer policy would be to improve our first team of course but also snap up all of twitchers targets at the 11th hour and loan them out.

[Vhero]

Thanks John, its always interesting to see whats being said in other countries tabloids.

I personally think we bid for Madrids and other big clubs targets to help negotiations for other targets. You can have this one if you drop out of the bidding and let us have that one....

My transfer policy would be to improve our first team of course but also snap up all of twitchers targets at the 11th hour and loan them out.

Not just that it builds relations with teams so when we come to get players with them they are more open to doing a good deal for us.

[john@staustell]

Kolarov and Maicon:

http://www.defensacentral.com/intranet/ ... iada-19825

Interesting little article here.

About Kolarov the gist is - with Lazio having "invented for themselves a 20M bid from City" (to up Real's 15 M offer), Mourinho doesn't want any jokes or games and they will move on to Andre Santos from Fenerbahce. If Lazio continue to 'play dirty'. Ties in with Mancini's 'no interest' statement.

As for Maicon, if Inter persist in wanting 35M - which they seem to be - then there's no way Real will get near that. So they will turn to Croatian Darijo Srna, captain of Shaktar Donetsk.