La Liga
– Real Madrid receive World Record bid for Cristiano Ronaldo. Yes you read that right... someone just bid a cool €300 million for the man who just days ago sealed his fourth Balon d’Or triumph before going out collecting his third trophy of the year by smacking a hattrick and winning the FIFA Club World Cup. Who someone you ask? A Chinese Super League someone. *shakes head and starts muttering to ourselves*
Read more of that fantastic bid in – Real Madrid received a €300 million bid for Cristiano Ronaldo, claims his agent Jorge Mendes
- Barcelona seek out Branislav Ivanovic. Again, you read that right – Barcelona FC want Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic. Once the most terrifying right back the Premier League had ever seen, last season was a horror show for the big Serbian. Now cast out into the wilderness-of-Chelsea-rejection, Ivanovic would not have dreamed that such a rumour would even be generated (factual or otherwise). But then he doesn’t know how bad Barcelona want a right-back. After selling Dani Alves to Juventus and signing a perfectly good replacement in Aleix Vidal and not playing him (instead playing a young central midfielder there), Barcelona have realised that the position of full-back can’t be taken too lightly. Just because you have MSN, doesn’t mean you can win everything – this isn’t playstation, Luis. But how far of a solution Ivanovic will be... only time and common sense can tell.
- Real Madrid are back in action. After having been banned for a couple of transfer windows, and then having seen that lowered to just one (this January), Florentino Perez and Zinedine Zidane (if the coach has any say in these things) are set to make “irresistable” offer for Thibaut Courtois. The last time Los Blancos came a-calling, Roman Abrahamovic put a nice little tag around the Belgian’s neck that read £73 Million, so if they do make an offer that even Roman can’t refuse – they will absolutely shatter the world-record-fee-for-goalkeeper into smithereens.And when Real Madrid want something, they generally tend to get it.
Do they really need to though, what with Keylor Navas in such stellar form? Thankfully for us, such logical questions have no place in the Transfer Market – long may the inanity continue!
- Meanwhile Valencia’s Cesare Prandelli has handed in his resignation after barely four months on the job. The grand old club are stranded on 17th, and if something isn’t done soon, they may well go down this year. You can already hear the vultures swooping in to clean the carcass to the bone – Diego Alves, Nani, Ezequiel Garay are but a few of the various tasty morsels that may soon be up for grabs