Real Madrid C.F. 2007/08

im very disappointed i cant be watching this game, stupid work

there is one steam but it doesnt work properly.
it will only buffer and never actually show the game.
http://www.sopcast.org/player/index.jsp#

Preseason shirt numbers for the new signings:

25 - DUDEK, 21 - METZELDER, 3 - PEPE

how are the youth team players doing? i hope this is dudeks only game

Soldado will wear No.9

@mexicanbecks

Looks like Granero is having a really strong outing!

Is he left footed?

Why is Granero playing as a striker though?

It's on RM Tv. If you didn't know.

Torrente wrote:Why is Granero playing as a striker though?

Schuster has been using him as a more advanced attacker through the first week of training camp. He's really more of a mediapunta but he is showing he can be versatile.

Jaime wrote:@mexicanbecks

Looks like Granero is having a really strong outing!

thats good, he impressed me when i saw him play in the u-20

If anyone's watching the match, i want a full summary after the game. And a bit on the Castilla players, Gracias.

TM wrote:If anyone's watching the match, i want a full summary after the game. And a bit on the Castilla players, Gracias.

seconded, except a little more polite

TM wrote:It's on RM Tv. If you didn't know.

I don't get RM TV

If you have sky, it's free.

Mexicanbecks wrote:

TM wrote:If anyone's watching the match, i want a full summary after the game. And a bit on the Castilla players, Gracias.

seconded, except a little more polite

I would like*

2-0


SOLDADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


...has arrived!

TM wrote:2-0


SOLDADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


...has arrived!

Spain have won another U-19 European Championship thanks to a goal from Dani Parejo. Parejo was with the Juvenil A team last season but has been promoted to RM Castilla.

Here is the team (RM Castilla) that Carlos Mandía is taking for preseason in Avila. Only 10 holdovers from last season.

Porteros: Adán, Felipe, Aitor

Defensas: Palencia, Velayos, Villafañe, Sergio, Dani Guillén, Giráldez, Krzystof, Agus, Mateos, Forlín, Schorch

Centrocampistas: Miguel Ángel Nieto, Juanmi Callejón, Vázquez,
Rodri, Marcos Tébar, Parejo, Cruz, Mosquera, Cidoncha

Delanteros: Rayco, José Callejón, Javi, Ángel, Gorka

Schuster after the match:

“Saco un balance positivo del partido porque creo que hemos empezado a hacer cosas bien. Hemos manejado el partido con muchas jugadas de toque, buscando el gol. Creo que era un rival difícil, que se ha cerrado, pero eso nos viene bien para intentar crear jugadas de gol. Hemos tenido oportunidades y hemos ganado 2-0, por lo que creo que para está bien. Hay que ir poco a poco, pero en general todos han estado bien , a un buen nivel”.

“Lo único que creo que nos ha faltado ha sido el último pase. Hemos perdido algunas jugadas en las que si hubiera sido bueno habríamos dispuesto de ocasiones claras. Pero no es cosa de los centrocampistas, es cuestión de cualquiera que tenga el balón en ese momento independientemente de quien sea. Todos los jugadores pueden crear un último pase que de una ocasión clara de gol”.

“Hemos trabajado la presión y nos ha salido bien y lo fundamental, el manejo del balón. Guti tiene mucha clase y una gran visión de juego, pero todo el mundo pidió el balón, que es lo que quería. Hemos visto detalles de Pepe, que se anticipa muy bien y físicamente está espléndido, por eso ha jugado todo el partido”.

Just discovered this. Real Madrid has it's own channel on youtube. The videos are all from the official site but at least in my case, I sometimes find the videos there unpredictable. Plus here they are all here in one place...

http://es.youtube.com/user/realmadridcf

Cicinho, post-match:

¿Cómo se ha sentido jugando en la banda izquierda?
La verdad es que no estoy cómodo. Me gustaría jugar en mi sitio, donde yo pueda dar el máximo. Cuando venga Marcelo u otro jugarán en esa posición y yo volveré a la derecha, lo que siempre ha sido mi voluntad...

Se le nota un poco enfadado...
Tengo claro que quiero jugar en la derecha, si no, preferiría jugar en otro equipo. Ahora es el momento de ver esto porque tengo otras propuestas y yo lo que quiero es jugar y ser feliz.

¿Tiene ofertas de otros equipos?
Estamos mirando algunas cosas. Si no tengo oportunidad de jugar no soy feliz.

¿Se ve más fuera que dentro del Madrid?
Ahora mismo me veo como jugador del Real Madrid. Pero si el presidente me dice que tengo vía libre, y el entrenador me asegura que no cuenta conmigo, no tendría ningún problema para ir a otro lado. Está claro que yo me siento jugador madridista. Siempre he querido triunfar aquí.

¿No tiene ganas de pelear por jugar en la banda derecha?
En mi vida nunca ha habido nada que me haya resultado fácil. He tenido que luchar en muchas situaciones y esta vez no va a ser una excepción. La verdad es que desde que he llegado después del verano Schuster sólo me ha utilizado para tapar los huecos que había por la falta de gente en la banda izquierda.

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Then go to Roma for all I care!

Mexicanbecks wrote:wasnt it blugratche who was telling us to buy this guy?

I was telling you to buy Frings, the most important player of my club? You must be kidding.

I told you that Bernd Schneider, the most important player of Leverkusen, could still help Madrid, definitely not Frings.

Frings is Werder through and through, he could have earned much more money at Juve, who were heavily interested in him a while ago, but he decided to stay. He won't go anywhere.

Found this on one of Football365's columns:

"Those long summer evenings must be flying by for professional bench warmer Jerzy Dudek and Iker Casillas, who are sharing a room at the Real Madrid
training camp.

"I talk to him in English and he answers in Spanish," says the Polish keeper - before confessing that Casillas can't actually understand English, nor Dudek Spanish. "

Funny stuff.

Stoke were beaten 2-0 by Real Madrid in their glamour friendly in Austria.

Goals in each half from Raul and Roberto Soldado (penalty) were enough to give the Spanish champions a comfortable victory.

New Real coach Bernd Schuster gave debuts to new signings Jerzy Dudek, Javier Saviola, Pepe and Christoph Metzelder.

Real broke the deadlock on 19 minutes when captain Raul slotted home after a poor clearance.

Stoke refused to be overawed by their illustrious opponents and had chances of their own, but they could not find a way past the Real defence.

Substitute Soldado wrapped up the victory with the second goal from the penalty spot after Ivan De la Red was brought down in the box.

blutgraetsche wrote:

Mexicanbecks wrote:wasnt it blugratche who was telling us to buy this guy?

I was telling you to buy Frings, the most important player of my club? You must be kidding.

I told you that Bernd Schneider, the most important player of Leverkusen, could still help Madrid, definitely not Frings.

Frings is Werder through and through, he could have earned much more money at Juve, who were heavily interested in him a while ago, but he decided to stay. He won't go anywhere.

Cicinho has not taken kindly to being palyed out of position, and threatened to leave the club if that continues to be the case.

After only the first match of the season, Bernd Schuster has dissent in his ranks to deal with.

The coach dropped his first hints regarding his plans for the season in yesterday's friendly against Stoke City, and Cicinho feels he is on the wrong end, literally.

While the first half of the 2-0 win saw Sergio Ramos on the right and Miguel Torres on the left, the second was conspicuous for Cicinho finding himself on the left, with Salgado playing in "his" position.

The player has previously dismissed speculation linking him with a move away, particularly to Roma, insisting he wants to stay and prove his worth, but seemed very irked after the game, irked enough to threaten to leave.

"I am not confortable on the left and would like to play in my position," he said on Spanish radio.

"I want to play at right back, and if that is not the case, I will find myself another club, because I do not see myself playing there [on the left] all year."

He insisted that he still wanted to stay at Madrid, but only if he was wanted for what he has to offer. The Brazilian warned that offers from other clubs were most certainly not a problem.

"My desire is to continue here, but only if it makes me happy," he quipped. "I have several offers on the table, and we will see what happens.

"It is certain that there are problems playing on the left, and that Schuster has asked me to paly there. My will is to play in my position."

Whether Dchuster handles this with kid gloves or an iron hand will tell us plenty about what will happen at Madrid over the coming 12 months. What is certain is that the gauntlet has been thrown to his man managing skills.

Oh well then its off to another club with him. Ramos positively shits all over him as RB.