How to solve the Pepe absence?
The sports direction of Real Madrid is opposite to an impossible quandary, how to substitute Pepe. I say impossibly since as Jorge Valdano said, “Pepe is an irreplaceable player, on the market there is no other like him”. This way of simple. And to start let’s do like the proper chiefs meringues and let’s analyze what already has Madrid.
Head offices born are Albiol, Garay and Metzelder. Albiol was the Pepe partner and now it will have to assume the responsibilities of the rear portuguese: to order and to sweep the rearguard horizontally, being the first one in going out to the ball or to the crossing of the overcome wings. Garay is a very young head office but with experience in the First after his stay in the Racing of Santander. It has not played many minutes in Madrid but it is supposed that this year is in the staff for two reasons: to learn of the most veteran and to be there if the holders get injured. It is clear that it is not the same to throw of him a few weeks that everything what stays of period. Metzelder, since it recorded for Madrid has done two things principally: to learn to speak Spanish better than half of the Spanish and to get injured as often as half of the pensioners. It is in Madrid because nobody paid for him an acceptable sum in summer and his potential minutes remained in Alcorcón. It is not, not of background, a solution for a team that aspires to gain the League and the Champions.
As for the wings we have Sergio Ramos in the right band, Marcelo in the left and Arbeloa for both. The Brazilian is distant from being very much a guarantees side street and every day becomes strong more in the struggle for a position in centrocampo (more now when Kaká will be missing a good period). Also it is alternative of Lass as right side street, place that I already occupy in the Chelsea, last year and, very occasionally, this year. Nevertheless, it is an option that it would discard: it must keep on progressing along with Xabi Alonso in the creation of a dominating tandem of parties. Consistently, only we have two born wings and one of them plays changed leg. So, seeing what exists, the best option seems to be, from left to right, Arbeloa-Garay-Albiol-Ramos.
Putting the sight on the winter market, one is scared at the quantity of movements that have already begun appearing. There is no only one representative in the world who is not verifying his defenses agenda to try to do his August in full Christmas, just as there will be a presidents’ endless number that they are wishing that he feels like appearing Florentino Pérez disguised as Gaspar (to the king magician, I refer). Is here a list of the names that have begun being vomited from all the corners:
Otamendi (Vélez), Schorch (Cologne), Zambrano (Schalke 04), Cuéllar (Aston Villa), David Luiz (Benfica), Couple (Espanyol), Amorebieta (Athletic Club), Subotic (Borussia Dortmund), Lugano (Fenerbahçe), Shoe (Udinese), Kjaer (Palermo), Lescott and Kolo Touré (Manchester City), Footpaths (Arsenal), Spahic (Montpellier), Vertonghen (Ajax), Paulo Ferreira (Chelsea), Fanni (Kings), Vargas (Fiorentina)… Sure that I leave someone to myself and only we take two days …
Would any of the renowned ones improve what has Madrid? Flatly not. First because for the half they would cost more than Florentine would be ready to pay. Second because the youngest do not overcome the Garay potential and much less his knowledge of the Spanish League. Undoubtedly, it would discard any possibility of recording a head office and a good side street would center on looking. This way it neither would stop up completely Garay a problem nor would look for me for when it turns Pepe. On the other hand, the wings are the positions worst covered by Valdano, Pardeza and company, so, with the injury of the portuguese, they have a weight argument to ask the president the pocket to scratch.
Once decided for recording a side street he would look, without hesitations, for a left-handed one. For the right band there are Sergio Ramos, Arbeloa and the extreme option of Lass. In the left I do not have any guarantees left-handed one and although it seems that Marcos Alonso begins sprouting in the Castile it is not the moment of that gives the jump. Also I belong to those that I think that the canteranos must rise, preferably, when the team works well, not like solution to his problems. So, finally, I have left two possibilities: to bet for the already above mentioned Arbeloa-Garay-Albiol-Ramos (with Metzelder and Branches like alternatives in the center for injuries, sanctions or rest) or to record a left side street.
Here another football pools would begin but I do not want to enter again that, so I will give the one that considered the best option: Filipe Luis, of the Sports one of Corunna. The side street brasileiro came to the Dépor from the branch of Madrid and it is provided with a long experience in the Spanish League (only one departed from the last 77 has not got lost not). In the past period and the present it has given good results at the highest level, being located for proper right between the best wings of the League. So much it is so the Barcelona traveled to the city herculina to take it, signing that did not come off because there still has not been born the one who haggles Lendoiro. It can seem difficult that Florentine and Lendoiro come to an agreement, because in A Coruna Lotina and the love they would put the very high economic strip of wood, but the president of the Dépor is much a fox and having the Dépor with 25 points at this point of the championship it would not discard that for approximately 15 million it takes the money seeing the team virtually saved.
I do not contemplate another option that is not Filipe or another side street of his level: good defender, better attacker, young man, with experience in the First … If it was recording would be to count 100 % with this player, thing that I cannot do in the center of the rear because Pepe will return sooner or later, I have just recorded Albiol and Garay it deserves that it is provided with him. I find the biggest problem in that Sergio Ramos has already declared that he prefers to continue of side street, unlike what supposedly it had been said in his environment, because he does not want to risk losing his entitlement as right side street in the Selection facing the World cup of South Africa.
Only it is necessary to us to know what Pellegrini thinks, because it is clear that the board is going to play at saying that they are not going to record anybody, because they have already learned this summer that to announce the intention of buying gets dearer the signings.
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