LA LIGA & REAL MADRID

[raul julia]

good luck madeus........

[raul julia]

Real Zaragoza have signed the former Real Madrid keeper Cesar on a free transfer, the club said on Monday.
The 33-year-old joined Real from Valladolid in 2000 but had to live in the shadow of Spain international Iker Casillas for most of his five years in the capital.
After being replaced by Casillas due to injury near the end of the Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen in 2002, Cesar found his opportunities in the first team largely restricted to appearances in the King's Cup.
Zaragoza keeper Cesar Lainez has just retired while Luis Garcia is currently being linked with a loan move to Getafe.

[raul julia]

Michael Owen is ready to open talks with English Premiership clubs after discovering Real Madrid want to use the England striker in a player-plus-cash deal.
The 25-year-old insists he is happy in Spain but acknowledges he will be unable to stay if Real president Florentino Perez wants to use him to get another player.
"If someone comes and tells me there is a club interested in me and that I have to go, then I'll have to do it," he told The Sun.
Real have Owen lined up for a proposed swap for either Arsenal's Jose Antonio Reyes, Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy or Cristiano Ronaldo.
Owen realizes that a second year without a trophy is too much for Real.
"The president and the management will decide which players have to leave and which will come," he said.

[kiat_gamay]

"The Greatest Team of All"


go Ronnie !!!!

[raul julia]

@kiat-gamay......welcome bay!!!!!!!

Real Madrid captain Raul says he has been unhappy with both his own and his team's performances over the past two seasons.
"I haven't got any satisfaction from the way I've played nor have I enjoyed the way the team has played over the last two years," Raul told the Real Madrid website on Tuesday.
Real have not won a major trophy for the past two years, the club's most barren run of form in 13 years.
This term they failed to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League, were knocked out in the third round of the King's Cup and ended up as runners-up to arch-rivals Barcelona in the Primera Liga.
On a personal level Raul, who has been a fixture in the Real Madrid first team for the past 10 years, had one of his worst campaigns since breaking into the squad when he scored just nine league goals in the recently completed season.
"It wasn't a good season," said the 27-year-old Spanish international. "But the team did at least manage to give a good account of itself at the end and we can hold our heads up high. Next season we'll be working hard to win all three trophies we will be competing for.
The striker said putting an end to two years of underachievement was conditional upon the club strengthening its squad and ensuring that coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo remained at the helm.
"If we haven't achieved our objectives it's because something has gone wrong," he said. "We are now looking for solutions as to how we can become more competitive and I'm sure we'll start next season well by winning games.
"I hope the coach stays at the club so that we can plan the season from the start. We also have to develop a plan in the knowledge that Real Madrid will be battling to win everything and so it will be important to have a big squad.
"We are going to be playing between 60 and 65 games and so we will need 22, 23 or 24 players so that we can play a game every three to four days."
The Spanish sporting press have produced an almost endless list of players who could join Real in the close season ranging from Brazilian forward Robinho to England midfielder Steven Gerrard, but the club has yet to sign any new players.

[raul julia]

Real Madrid midfielder Guti says he would prefer a move to an English club if he leaves the Primera Liga side.
"I am keen to start a new chapter in my life. I have always said that if I leave Real I would love to play in England. The Premier League would be ideal," Guti told sports daily Marca on Friday.
The 28-year-old made 18 starts for Real last season but, after the arrival of coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo in December and Denmark midfielder Thomas Gravesen in the January transfer window, he spent more time on the bench.
Since the end of the season Guti has made little secret of his unhappiness at being reduced to the role of substitute, behind the higher profile players at the club.
"The club know it is my wish to leave and they know we have to find a solution that is good for both parties, whether inside or outside the club," Guti added.
"All I want is to play more. If I have to stay I will do it without problems, but I think the time has come to move on to progress."

[kiat_gamay]

go Ronnie and Beck

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@kiat_gamay............please refrain from posting such short replies. we now know who you are rooting for. Any "short posts" i will delete on sight.

[raul julia]

Manchester United were reported to be chasing Real Madrid's England star Michael Owen and Newcastle United midfielder Jermaine Jenas.
Manager Sir Alex Ferguson has urged his board to sound out Real Madrid who bought Owen for 8 million pounds last year from Liverpool but who has spent most of the season on the bench despite scoring 14 goals.
Real's valuation of 13 million pounds might be too much for United who have been told by new owner Malcolm Glazer to restrict spending.
The Times reported they had only 6.25 million pounds to spend before the end of their financial year on July 31.
That money has been assigned to the signings of Fulham's Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and Korean midfielder Park Ji Sung from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven.
Under Glazer's business plan Ferguson would have 25 million pounds for the following financial year, which would come after the transfer window closes.
Ferguson would have to offload one of his strikers - Ruud van Nistelrooy, injury-prone France international Louis Saha, or Alan Smith, but certainly not Wayne Rooney -- if he wants Owen.
The Sun said United were also interested in Jenas whose first-team slot at Newcastle is threatened by the arrival of Scot Parker from Chelsea.

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Real Madrid's England star Jonathan Woodgate is throwing everything into his summer fitness training programme as he bids to get fit for the new campaign having not played a single game since signing from Newcastle almost a year ago.
The England centre back has not played a competitive game for 422 days since suffering a thigh muscle injury and a ruptured tendon, after which Real gambled 13.4 million pounds (19.4 million euros) on the 26-year-old.
Now, after treatment in Spain, Finland and at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the United States "Woody" is to forego his summer break as he puts in hours of special training and swimming in the hope that he will finally be ready for the new campaign.
AS daily reported a friend of Woodgate as saying "he's not bothered about a holiday or working six days a week morning and afternoon. He's been a bit down at times so now he's upbeat about the way things are coming along."
Finnish doctor Sakari Orava made micro incisions in Woodgate's leg in April which appear to have allowed him to make progress to the extent AS said he is now running four kilometres a day under the hot Madrid sun.