What could Real Madrid possibly want Antonio Valencia for?
Posted By Rob Parker on June 25, 2009
Spaniards attempt at gossip column monopoly continues
Real Madrid’s transfer policy is beginning to frazzle OTP’s brain a little bit. Granted many of the hundreds of reports about Real being interested in particular players are entirely fabricated, but clearly some are not. And one of those is their chase for Wigan’s Antonio Valencia.
The Latics have confirmed that both Real and Manchester United have had bids of £14-18 million for their winger accepted. Man Utd are clearly trying to bag a replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo. Indeed, considerable newspaper column inches have been devoted to debating whether the Ecuadorian is up to that task.
Real, on the other hand, will have Ronaldo. The real deal. Old news though it may be, they also broke the world transfer record to sign Kaka not so long ago. And they are also rumoured to be interested in Franck Ribery.
So where does Valencia fit into this? Does Ronaldo really need an £18 million understudy? The only thing we can think of is that Real are trying to force United to play without a right winger next season by purchasing all possible candidates.
Any ideas?
They same to be taking the Chelsea route from when they first got the money. Which was buy everybody that the big clubs are interested in…
Maybe what real wants is to put Antonio as defensive mid..he is a very complete player and has played on that pósition in The ecuadorián team making a really good job very similar to makelele i hope real had discover that fact
It’s obvious! Real will buy Valencia then offer him to Valencia CF in a cash + player swop for David Villa, so that we can finally experience the treat of Valencia playing for Valencia.