Real Madrid

nothing interesting going on, just posting for the sake of updates to my "tag-fans" (T_T).

snow shower has ended. and its not gonna happen anymore anytime this year, which is sort of not fun because we wont see any white christmas, not to mention the "school holiday" that we are going to miss. but o well. apparently, the precipitation this month has been the largest since 1933. wohoo.. that's 73 years!

anyway, its been a normal week. no incident whatsoever, no surprises whatsoever. kinda boring isn't it? i was hoping there'd be more "something" to fill my spare time.

o i know, i can talk about real madrid in this post. if anyone ever cares. i know i do, though.

till this day, they are the most successful football club ever. i'm not gonna list the trophies and achievements they have won, cuz it'd be too long. however, these past 3 years, it seems that luck has gone afar from their sight. they are having trophies drought. and it is a "no no" for a club of that magnitude.

IMO, well... obviously, this is partly due to the 'Galacticos Policy' since the reigning of Florentino Perez. During his first year alone, he brought the so-called Judas (by Barcelona Fans) namely Luis Figo and his transfer broke the world's transfer market record of being the highest of all time. Then came along big known names like Zinedine Zidane (his transfer broke Figo's previous record and its the all time high, even until now!), Ronaldo Luiz Nazario da Lima, David Beckham!

Although there are opposition to the doctrine that Perez has, during the first few years of his reign, the signings has taken its positive effect, Madrid won trophies, became the highest income earner, and became the best club ever! Then came in the incident of firing Vicente Del Bosque. This IMO, is the most crucial factor of the downfall of the Real Madrid era. The expulsion of Del Bosque was unthinkable because he won 3 trophies that year alone - Spanish La Liga and two more that I couldn't remember - and logically speaking, that is a good result. After that is the worst 3 years for the Galacticos.

Now, with Ramon Calderon and Capello in charge, Real Madrid is turning into a real challenger again. Players that are useless are benched and released. Then, champions such as Cannavaro, Emerson, Diarra, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, and Reyes are recruited. Youth players namely Robinho, Ramos, De la Red, Nieto and Mata are being given experience to play. Positive results are coming in and according to realmadrid.com, history is repeating itself like 10 years ago where Capello was in charge for the first time. And that year Real Madrid won the La Liga. Hopefully, history IS repeating itself and is even better than last time. My hope is high this year with Capello in charge and the system changed. Not to mention three Latin players that are predicted to come this January Transfer. (One had been successfully recruited: Marcelo, the other 2 are in progress and is supposedly to come: Gago and Higuain)