REAL MADRID | JAMES RODRIGUEZ WANTS A PAY RISE

There is a rumour doing the Spanish Football & Sports media circus that English Premier League Club Manchester United has asked about Real Madrid Colombian forward James Rodriguez. Concretely the players representative Jorge Mendes was said to have been approached & directly asked how the player feels these days at Real Madrid.

The rumours that James Rodriguez is not "tight" with his Coach

REAL MADRD | THE DAVID DE GEA TRANSFER MIX-UP

The Spanish (& World) Football media are still baffled & some laughing at the David De Gea - Keylar Navas transfer mix up or "fu*k ups". The reality is that today with the "Transfer Market" shut, Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea is still a United player because Real Madrid failed to send the "transfer documents" to the Spanish Liga HQ (LFP) before the midnight deadline. 




Here begins

REAL MADRID SHUTS DE GEA - NAVAS TO MANCHESTER UNITED

With only hours available before the "Transfer Market" shuts at midnight, Spanish Football Club Real Madrid is close to shutting a transfer deal with Manchester United for their Spanish International goalkeeper David De Gea. 

Latest from local media is that a deal has been struck between Clubs with some details still to be tied. The transfer price is speculated to be around 30M€, while current

REAL MADRID - SERGIO RAMOS FIX DEAL UNTIL 2020

News coming out of Spanish Sports paper "Marca" advances that Real Madrid & Sergio Ramos have ironed out their differences & look like sealing an agreement that renews the defenders contract until 2020.

Was there any doubt? I posted here weeks back that the supposedly Manchester United offer would be used as leverage power in the negotiations. Ramos wanted 10M€ per season while Real Madrid only

SERGIO RAMOS | MAN UNITED | REAL MADRID TRIANGLE

Lots being said & written overseas (UK especially) & locally on the future of Real Madrid & Spanish International Sergio Ramos. The British press is saturated with news that the player is disgruntled with Madrid, that he has an offer on the table from Manchester United & that the defender may take it up. In fact, media sources indicate that Manchester United wishes to include Ramos in the David

REAL MADRID | BENZEMA TESTING THE MAN UNITED WATERS

As written in the last post, the arrival of new Coach Rafael Benitez to Real Madrid complicates the upcoming season for French striker Karim Benzema. Benitez obviously believes in the talent & class of the player, but beforehand does not fit into his "tactical" set-up which is usually just one pure Striker up-front or two in a 4-4-2 system. In either variation it is Cristiano Ronaldo (the

REAL MADRID - DE GEA | MUSICAL CHAIRS

Manchester United Manager Van Gaal made the comment: De Gea is Spanish, a Spanish International, his Spanish parents have to fly out from Spain nearly every week, his girlfriend is Spanish & Real Madrid is a huge Spanish Football Club. The goalkeeper is very keen to return to Spain & Real Madrid has made him an offer. 

David De Gea has on his table a contract renewal proposal from Manchester Utd

JAVIER "CHICHARITO" HERNANDEZ | EVERYONE WILL HAVE THEIR FAME

It was the pop-culture artist Andy Warhol who claimed... "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes", making this claim in the context of our mass media & hyperconnected society. Well Football has smiled in the last week on Real Madrid on loan Mexican forward Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez catapulting him from obscurity to front page media stardom where 15 mins is relative.

The

CRISTIANO RONALDO THINKING OF RETURNING TO MANCHESTER UNITED?

Something
is not right with Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo. Since receiving the FIFA
Golden Ball in January the Portuguese forward has entered an observable "slump"
with his play, & with his goal scoring rate dropping dramatically
(dramatically in his extraordinary case) which has lead to all sorts of
speculation.



The initial
back alley talk was that his break-up with model Irina Shayk

DAVID DE GEA THE CHOSEN ONE BY REAL MADRID

It is fairly unanimous, current Manchester United Spanish International goalkeeper David De Gea is destined to be the substitute of Iker Casillas at Real Madrid & the Spanish National Team. The speculation is constant & if the river sounds...




The representative of David De Gea is none other than Portuguese Jorge Mendes, which has an ace up his sleeve. His player ends contract in 2016, thus if

ATLETICO DE MADRID TARGET CAZORLA & JUAN MATA

Spanish Soccer Club Atletico de Madrid is planning their squad for next season. According to Spanish Sports media their main target is 30 year old Spanish International & Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla. Atletico de Madrid Coach Diego Simeone wants to incorporate a class creative play-maker in the centre & has solicited Cazorla.




News locally indicates that Atletico de Madrid representatives

THE MANCHESTER UNITED INTEREST FOR GARETH BALE

The news travelling out of England that Manchester United is willing to make a 150M€ offer for Real Madrid & Welsh international Gareth Bale apparently has truth according to local media sources.




However, the Premier League Club has two big obstacle:


the 1,270 M€ contract release clause, seeing that Real Madrid does not wish to sell,
the "NO" from the player who is reported to be happy at

MANCHESTER UNITED TARGETS GERARD PIQUE ?

According
to Spanish Sports daily "Sport", English Premier League Club
Manchester United is firmly intent in making a bid for FC Barcelona defender
Gerard Pique. The English team managed & Coached by Louis Van Gaal wants to have
the services of the Spanish International central defender, & from England
the news is that the Club is willing to offer 25M € for the player.




The English
paper the

JAVIER "CHICHARITO" HERNANDEZ LOAN TO REAL MADRID CLOSE

The news now hitting the Spanish Football online sites is that MANCHESTER UNITED & REAL MADRID have come to an agreement for the former to loan their Mexican International forward Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez to the latter. 

According to "Marca" its a one year loan & the player has still to shut the salary conditions with Real Madrid before it all becomes official. 



This way Real Madrid

REAL MADRID ANGEL DI MARIA WILL GO TO MANCHESTER UNITED

The future of Argentine & Real Madrid midfielder Angel Di Maria has been settled. English Premier League Club Manchester United will be - awaiting official announcement - the new destination & Football home for the player.

The transfer figures vary between those media sources that say 75M€ plus 15M€ more in variables & others who go higher with a 80M€ figure. In any case it the biggest transfer

ANGEL DI MARIA WANTS TO LEAVE REAL MADRID

Argentine International & Real Madrid midfielder Angel Di Maria is unique in World Soccer. The player has evolved & matured into a "Total Football Player", the type most Coaches dream of having in their squad. Angel Di Maria attacks, passes, scores goal &, here is his speciality, defends with tireless running that keeps the team in equilibrium. A revolutionary that can win a stalemate match in

JAMES RODRIGUEZ | ANGEL DI MARIA OUT FIRST FROM REAL MADRID

It started off as media generated hype,  but slowly the idea of Colombian International & Monaco 22 year old forward JAMES RODRIGUEZ ending up next season at Real Madrid is gaining credibility. The fact that James Rodriguez publicly voiced his dream to play at Real Madrid has opened the doors of the Spanish Football Club as President Florentino Perez always wants the "Best" & tacitly requires

MANCHESTER UNITED EYES ANGEL DI MARIA

While Argentine International is on duty with his Nation at the World Cup, locally the rumours increase that ANGEL DI MARIA is looking to force his exit for Real Madrid CF. Real Madrid Coach Carlo Ancelotti is not in favour of letting go the midfielder, but the Argentine is "rubbing up the wrong way" the Real Madrid Directives with comments & behaviour. A situation which is not new at all & has

MANCHESTER UNITED ABOUT TO TIE ANDER HERRERA

Looks as if this time around Manchester United are serious. The English Premier League Club left last season hanging Athletic Club Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrara until the last minute. News is that Manchester United has not forgotten the young Spanish talent & will deposit within hours the 36M€ contract release clause that liberates the player to become a new "Red" for next season. Manchester

ALEXIS SANCHEZ | JUVENTUS FC & MANCHESTER UNITED INTEREST

The offices at FC Barcelona are very busy these days as the Club plans its "mini-revolution" & new look squad for next season under new Coach Luis Enrique. Everyday there are new rumours of offers & current players about to exit. 

One name is Chilean International Alexis Sanchez, which has been sounding for the last 6 months as an exit candidate. However these past weeks the "noise" has