It seems that Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has come to an agreement with Real Madrid to take the Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy on a six month loan in January. Today’s Independent reports that Liverpool have beaten Blackburn and Arsenal to securing Van Nistelrooy as cover for Fernando Torres for the rest of the season. [...]
The ex-Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso bemoaned the fact that his Real Madrid team got beat by Barcelona 1-0 on Sunday, and thinks that they deserved at least a draw from the match against the European Champions. Barcelona leapfrogged Madrid at the top of La Liga thanks to a blistering goal by Zlatan Ibrahimovich, but Alonso [...]
The Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has said that when he was offered a new contract at Anfield he had the choice of going to Madrid to take over the Galacticos. He says there is no way he is going to walk away from Liverpool now, after turning down the club he supported as a boy, [...]
As usual the Liverpool transfer rumours are in full throttle, with no let-up in Rafael Benitez’s injury list, and today is no exception. The first rumour is quite a good one, with the classy Real Madrid midfielder Mahamadou Diarra apparently on the For Sale list at the Spanish giants after last summer’s spending spree. The [...]
The Real Madrid and Holland midfielder Rafael Van Der Vaart is desperate for first team football to ensure his place in the Holland team for next summers World Cup in South Africa, but he has turned down the chance to join the German giants Hamburg, who have been trying hard to persuade the talented playmaker [...]
Real Madrid’s galacticos are not yet turning into a team, and patience is running thin with the new boss Manuel Pelligrini. Despite spending £225m in the summer on such stars as Alonso, Ronaldo and Kaka, Madrid have only won one of their last five matches. Tuesday night brought their most embarrassing defeat yet when they [...]
