by john@staustell » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:23 am
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).
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