Must say that I'd love to see Sneijder in Milan. One of my favourite center-midfielders.

Agreed.

He'd really suit us too, in my opinion. If we only signed him, I'd be happy with that. Won't happen though.

Spanish SuperCup - 1st leg: Sevilla 1-0 R.Madrid

A penalty by Luis Fabiano solved the 1st leg. Next week in Bernabeu is the 2nd one.

PS: Schuster lineup was awful. Balboa in the first 11? Raul as striker?!

Nice!!

I won't be all bad... I have to say I like Madrid's away shirt!

Alves was amazing as usual, Boulahrouz and Dragutinović combined perfectly and Sevilla as a whole defended Fabiano's goal surprisingly well! Keita was Sevilla's best in my view... and it was only his first official game!! He's (probably) gonna be Sevilla's next big thing... very good signing!

As for Real... well, they were bad, Real bad! That was an awful performance... still, Schuster's effect on the team is obvious; he's taught his players to cry like b!tches for every decision given against them!! Baptista... he can't be Brazilian... really... he's fake... I can't see how a joke of a player like him can play for Real Madrid!! And Robinho... as usual; dribbling and diving! The moment he learns about passing (wow! never heard that before, have you?) he will become a good player... and he might even trouble teams better than Chile! Sadly enough, Gago was bad too! On the contrary, Pepe amazed me!! That was a magnificent performance by him tonight!

Anyway... it was only normal that Sevilla would play better. They're better prepared as they play the CL preliminary 1st leg in a week (against AEK Athens)! I wanna see Real's line-up in two months... with Sneijder, Drenthe (possibly Robben)...

So, Sneijder is staying? Stupid Madrid. They can give 24 but not 27? A team that have 100M/euros to spend?

We'll see what happens and if Sneijder plays the CL 3rd pre next Tuesday or Wednesday with Ajax. If he does, he'll stay in Ajax.

Sneijder's Madrid Signing Confirmed Former Ajax man
Wesley Sneijder has penned a five year deal with Real Madrid, according to the club's official website...

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Just like I was expecting... Madrid isn't stupid enough... just for 3M I found it weird they pulling out of the bid-thing.

Great add for them.

for 27m.... expensive, but he's quality.

I quite forgot that RM had Metzelder too!

This is sad!

I thought I mis-read then but that's Euro's, when you think Man United bought Hargreaves for the same price, then this really isnt that bad of a deal.

A player I would have really liked to see in Rossoneri colours, another one...

Rumours in Spain that the Ballack-deal was almost done until Madrid president Calderon said "NO" because of their new policy in the transfer-window. Then they signed Wesley Sneijder.

Only buying young and quality players for the first 11. [Casillas, Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos, Adrián Gonzalez, Drenthe, Sneijder, Gago, Diarra, Higuain, Robinho, Soldado, Cicinho, Robben?!... ]

I think it's difficult to find another European club with such number of quality players under-25/26. Probably M.United?

Raúl, Guti, Emerson, Nistelrooy, Salgado and Cannavaro will be what? 2-3 years more with them? Probably just for the locker-room importance. Just like United with Gary Neville, Scholes, Giggs, etc.

Van Nistelrooy should be a very important player for them in the upcoming season. With his style he can score 20+ goals a season even when he's 33. The others...yes.

When the hell did they buy soldado? Man, only if we bought a couple players like that...

This squad would have been ideal for us this season:

Dida, Kalac, Fiori

Nesta, Bonera, Kaladze, Maldini, Barzagli, Simic, Oddo, Jankulovski, Cafu, Serginho, Favalli, Darmian

Gattuso, Pirlo, Sneijder, Gourcuff, Kaka, Seedorf, Ambrosini, Brocchi

Ronaldo, Inzaghi, Gilardino, Quagliarella, Pato


Now that's a squad with just enough depth to compete in all competitions. And it's not even too much to ask. A normal transfer market should look like that.

Soldado was always a Madrid player. He's from Madrid castilla (primavera) although he was on-loan to Osasuna I think.

Yeah, I have seen him a couple times and he looked very impressive (In La Liga). Never knew he was a Madrid player.

It seems that Rafael van der Vaart wants to talk himself to Valencia. They offered Hamburg 14M (way not enough IMO...he's worth as much as Sneijder at least) and he said things like "I absolutely want to leave. Valencia is a dream. It would would hurt me if I were to stay in Hamburg". Still hope he's not leaving...would be a big loss for the Bundesliga.

Dani Alvez has NOT been called up into Sevilla's squad for their European Cup qualifier.

Juande Ramos says it's due to an injury. But I think it's pretty clear they don't want him cup-tied for when he moves.

So Madrid sign Sneijder .. BIG deal

Now I am even more eager to see how Schuster will do this season


And I hope we do meet in the Champions this year I want my Milan to show those pampered babies how the Rossoneri take the pitch.

Remember the San Siro people .. Where all your dreams come true

Remember 1989.

.. Old timer

It's Alves, you dirty Villain.

Alvez = Spanish (Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, etc)
Alves = Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Macau, etc)

Daniel Alves. And it's said it's a done deal for Chelsea. Amazing full-backs: Cashley and Alves.

My excuse: He plays in Spain - I call him by the Spanish version of the name. ¬_¬

Paulo Ferreira (On his day) and Wayne Bridge can also be very good full-backs, could start on at least 50% of the teams in the EPL.. and they're just Chelsea's backups!

Ferreira is sh!t ffs. He's not even Villa quality. Everybody makes fun of him in here and how poor he is.

Miguel (Valencia) is 7 times what he is. Bridge yes - quality there.

Not even Villa quality?

Well, we have no right-back, not one. He can't be worse than nothing, surely?

Seriously. He IS pathetic.

22' 2nd leg of the Spanish SuperCup: Real Madrid 0-1 Sevilla

Renato scored. So... 0-2 agg for Sevilla now.

Madrid equalize in Bernabeu. 1-1 Drenthe in his first official match.

Yes Yes Yes !!

1:2 to the good team

1-2 Sevilla.

That Renato midfielder touched 2 times in the ball until now. 2 goals.

Torres sure played that one up. Yellow to Alves, not really deserved.

Stupid Schuster put Torres instead of Marcelo. Torres is completely out of form.

Has anyone opened book on how soon Schuster will be sacked yet? Madrid are getting spanked badly.

1:3. Priceless!!

No matter who they bring, their defence are sh!t. It's like a rule.

My bet is: He won't finish this season.

Pretty goal from Cannavaro, header off of a set piece.

Canna 2-3.

Things are getting a little tense. Some harsh fouls and then a bad foul by Ramos on Dragutinovic that nearly led to a bench-clearer. I'm surprised that little episode ended only with Ramos getting a yellow.

And Ramos ties it up with a header. 3-3 in the 80th.

EDIT: And Kanoute answers with a goal of his own in the 83rd. Sevilla are back in the lead.

What a match. But NO TOP TEAM gets 4 at home... geez.

Wow. The Alien (Pepe) gets sent off and Kanoute scores another one. 5-3 Sevilla. The Madrid fans have gone so quiet I can hear the small contingent of Sevilla fans cheering.

make it 5

FT 3:5 Congrats to Sevilla

There's a thing in Spain like: "Who win the SuperCup never win the League, the next season"... but still, geez.

Galacticos (defensive part)-ERA is back. 5 at home. Geez.

w00t!

Sevilla owned!

With Capello this would never happen. Offensive players + Defensive coach = Balanced team.

Offensive players + Offensive coach = No trophies, but entertaiing matches.

3-5 Seems to look like an entertaining match .. But that is just for Sevilla

Capello already opened his champaign bottle

Ha-ha-ha!!!!

HUMILIATION!!!!

What a night! First Inter and then Madrid!! They conceded 5 at home!!!! At Bernabéu!!!

And they showed the usual Madrid attitude... _ssholes! I only respect Raúl and Casillas from that bog! I'd hate to see Kaká play for them... he doesn't belong there!!

And Sevilla... they are undoubtedly Europe's most on form team of the past couple seasons!! Unstoppable, extraordinarily well-constructed... a true paradigm for every team of relative budget! If Alves stayed they could compete for the championship too! Dani owned stupid lil' Robinho every step of the way!!!

Let's see how we will perform against those demons... we could see Ringhio vs Poulsen again!! I can't wait!!

Baptista... this is as bad as seeing Brocchi playing for Milan! What a joke...


Serves them right! I like Capello and they've been disrespectful towards him... TWICE!

Yep. It's out of order really.

I hope they go another 5 or so years without another trophy for it.

Barcelona will self-destruct again.

IF I WAS A REAL MADRID FAN (dst will quote this sh!t I bet ), I'd be happy with the result and this pathetic lost vs. Sevilla at home.

This will guarantee some more top-reinforcements to the team. I wouldn't be surprise if Madrid wasted some more 70M/euros or so in the market. Their directors are volatile so this could be the best news for them.

All the reinfircements they got are top-notch! They just need to take the moustached Gérard Depardieu off their bench... a straw man would be equally effective!

They'll come for Kaká again of course...