Eurosport - Thu, 25 Jun 13:32:00 2009
Real Madrid have agreed to sign defender Raul Albiol from Valencia on a five-year contract, the big-spending Liga club announced.
The deal will be completed next week once the 23-year-old Spain international, who is at the Confederations Cup in South Africa, completes a medical and signs his contract, Real said on their website.
Spanish media reported the transfer fee was around 15 million euros (£13m).
Albiol will become the second confirmed signing by new Real president Florentino Perez following his purchase of Brazil playmaker Kaka from Milan for around 67 million euros.
Perez has also bid £80m for Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo, with the deal expected to be completed in the next few days.
Albiol, who suffered a serious car crash in 2004 which left him without a spleen, is likely to partner Portuguese international Pepe in central defence although Madrid could buy another centre half this summer, with Pepe six matches into a 10-game ban.
Albiol made his Valencia debut in 2003 and first played for Spain in a 3-1 win over Denmark in 2007.
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I don't know why Madrid bought abiol, he is nothing special. Pique or Vidic are way better. I really hope that Madrid would get to buy one player from Barcelona, like Pique, or Iniesta, or Toure, or Eto'o, or Xavi, they are all great players. I'm afraid that will not happen, because one, they love Barcelona, two, Madrid can't afford these players, they would cost too much, because they are the best at their possition, and three I don't think these players would leave the best club in the world, for Madrid. I just really hope we keep pressure on Barcelona next season, because if we don't Madrid will be embarased, because they have wasted all that money.
IMO i would be happy to see ruben delared but his career is almost end
coz of heart problem.
No matter d purchase, real madrid aint gonna b anywhere near d champs. Guardiola has a point 2 prove. No matter d arsenal of stars madrid portrays, barcelona wud stil do wat they r best known 4. We did it b4, we wil do it again 2 tel d world dat last season wasn't a fluke
@getachew44
What has happened to ruben de la red? will he play again.
if perez can get tore it would be nice
tore is joker!
he is the one make barca balanced
i would like to see Yaya Toure come to real madrid, and i think barca are trying to get rid of him, that is why they are going after mascherano.
sure essien and zapata are on the list but that depend on their teams
if it was only wish i would go for vidic lahm and yaya tore too, but i know this 3 may not come
but essien and zapata would.
have you heard anything about zaparta and essien. Are real really trying to buy them.
:) cant wait for next season. Real madrid will be a joy to watch with all these world class players playing for us.
honestly about the new manager peligreni, he is the best choice at the moment
coz of many reasons
1 he know la liga very well
2 imagine villareal come to 1st division in 2001 for the the 1st time in their history he make them one of the strongest team in la liga, with small budget, they also have good record in CL
3 he make many unknown players and change them to stars eg rossi senna cazorla and forlan
so if he small team very strong team, i think he will make real madrid the strondest
look raimo i'll give you the starters and sub
casillas
ramos pepe albeol zapata
snijder essien/alonso
ronaldo kaka ribery
villa/benzema
sub
dudek
marcelo garay tores maicon
fabrigas guti robben lass gago
nisterlrooy higuen raul
sometimes the starters change accourding to the match, cesc maicon, robben or higuen can be the starters
yes you are right we need a lot of world class players to compete in all the competitions. i think we have all the strikers we need. maybe we could use one more. Benzema of villa. but we definetly need a world class defender someone like vidic. i think we should keep van nistelroy, because he is a proven goal scorer and if we would sell him now we would probably get about 5 millon for him because of his age, so it would be best if we keep him. what do you think of our new manager? And who would be your ideal starting 11 for next season.
this way we will have
casillas
ramos, pepe, albeol, garay, zapata
essien, alonso, ribery, kaka, robben, snijder, guti
raul, huntelar, (benzema/villa)
this are only 16 players
to play in all competition though the season, we need atleast 22 players.
what about van nisterlrooy, salgado, tores, javi garcia, negredo and marcelo?
Raimo plz don't forget 5 players are not enough in difffence.
i think we should buy fabrigas, maicon and clichy or lahm
we have also to keep lass and gago
this way we will go for all titles
and also sell drenthe, looks like his not having a very good time in real madrid shirt.
to getachew44. well i think Raul and Guti will definetly stay, because they a symbols of real madrid. But i think we should also keep Higuain,robben, huntelaar, sneijder. But we should get rid of heinze, van der vaart, both diarras, metzelder, saviola. not sure about gago.
OI OI a defender ? Well done Perez this makes sense.
now this signing look more sense
raimo k, getachew.. why dont u two get a room?
not this signing look more sense
raimo k, getachew.. why dont u two get a room?
Visca el Barca!!!
At least they bought a defender for a more normal price...but still their budget is through the roof...where the hell are they getting all of this money from????
they dont need ribery or villa...they got higuain raul, van nistelrooy, huntelaar and negredo..theres no point in spending big on a striker.... bolster defence and defensive midfield more
Raimo good team
but don't forget we must keep some good players on the bench some may get injured some may be tiered
who do you think will remain on the bench?
who must be sold and who must stay?
we must be strong in la liga and CL, to do this we must have 23 or 25 good players
so don't you think we must keep some of our players?
do you think we must sell all dutch players?
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