Before you get too excited, let me clarify that by “youth” here I do not necessarily mean our Castilla and academy ranks even though they will be getting a mention in this post. But given the signings we made this season and the players who have left, one can safely say that Jose Mourinho’s Real [ Read More ]
Fernando Morientes has decided to retire from all forms of professional football at the age of 34. Nando, who spent seven seasons with us, made this announcement to a Spanish radio channel today in order to spend more time with his family although he will be taking up a job behind the microphone.
The Head of Medical Services at the club, Carlos Diez, spoke to the press about the injury picked up Cristiano Ronaldo during last night’s goalless draw against Mallorca. He said that while the expected recovery period is usually 2 weeks, they decided to extend it by additional week as a precautionary step.
So a lot of discussion seems to be taking place about Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho starting off with a draw and already falling of the pace. However as we all know that the league is won over 38 games and as we saw with Spain in the recently concluded FIFA World Cup, a slow [ Read More ]
A few days back Jose Mourinho annouced that Sergio Canales would be a starter in this game and that he would not include players based on their price tag or reputation but on merit only. Last night a resolute and disciplined Real Mallorca gave us a live demonstration as to how price tags and reputations count [ Read More ]
The first preview for the new season so understandably I am really excited doing it. We start off the campaign against last season’s surprise package Mallorca at the Ono Estadi which has now been renamed as the Iberostar stadium (Remember the time when they called it San Moix?).
The new season is finally upon us as La Liga officially kicks off this weekend. Just a year after we launched our so-called “new era”, we will be doing it all over again, this time under the control of a man even god believes is special – Jose Mourinho. We look ahead to the next nine months [ Read More ]
The draw for the group stages of this season’s UEFA Champions League was held today in Monaco. We have been placed with AC Milan, Ajax Amsterdam and AJ Auxerre in Group G of the competition, clearly one of the tougher ones in the draw.
As far as I can remember we have always had a rough time with injuries and the trend appears to be continuing this season. Kaka, Pepe, Mahamadou, Garay and Albiol are already out of action, and last night Fernando Gago played for roughly eight minutes against Penarol before hurting his knee and is now set [ Read More ]
Preseason drew to a close last night as Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid maintained their unbeaten run by beating Uruguayan champions Penarol 2-0 in front a sold out Santiago Bernabeu crowd. The atmosphere was pretty much synonymous to an actual in-season game and quite typically the mood swung from excitement to frustration to celebration during the [ Read More ]
