El Mundano Deportivo, Adrian Vogel (the Real Madrid "insider"), is back
with his bi-monthly collaboration with his views on the cuurent REAL
MADRID. Today Adrian examines yesterdays Club Extraordinary General
Assembly & has some sharp words in reference to rumours of the coming of
Florentino Perez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jorge Valdano & the possibility of Arsene
Wegner.This post is perhaps his most controversial post up to date that may
move the internal fires of some Real Madrid fans, or may in fact fine some
allies. What’s your opinion?
Take note to the “insider” investigative ground work. In this case, we have
an exclusive, as Adrian spoke to one of the“Horses” from the famous saying…
"straight from the horse’s mouth”.
Adrian has his own popular blog “El Mundano” written in Spanish.
Striker
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(photo Boluda: El Pais - Alvaro Garcia)
Unfortunately for Real Madrid we’ve been on the News for all the wrong
reasons,like our Institutional Crisis.But after yesterdays General Extraordinary
Assembly, Mr. Boluda “The Pacifier” has moved the Club back into the right
direction & the embarrassing December 7th General Assembly is now part of
the Clubs past history (which doesn’t necessary mean we should forget it).
Vicente Boluda, the interim President named after Ramon Calderon’s forced
resignation, was ratified giving him the moral edge to move ahead and modify
the mail voting system. There lies the origin of most the troubles.
Mr. Calderon failed in his attempts because of fierce opposition coming from
Florentino Perez loyalists. Precisely Mr. Perez departure and his change of the
voting procedures were key issues in the subsequent mess we’ve been facing.
Yesterday – after rejecting the Florentino´s voting system - we can rest assured
that we’ll have clean elections this coming summer.
So far only Eugenio Martinez Bravo has confirmed his running intentions.
Other names that were hinted in the past months have not appeared so far.
Everybody is expecting to hear from Florentino Perez announce his candidacy
after Easter. His former board member Ramon Calderon – and penultimate
Real Madrid President - has dropped the hint that “I’m going to run. I may
not have any chance to win but I want to make noise and confront
Florentino in a TV debate”.
As you & all intelligent readers may have noticed, everything turns around
Florentino Perez (pictured above), the man that took over the team who was
a Champions League winner and left with Barcelona winning it. That’s his
power and strength. Everybody’s talking and his campaign is probably one
of the best pre-promotional efforts we’ve witnessed. Some factors boil in his
magic pot: starving journalists looking for a job in the “Perez galaxy”, sports
media aware of the expectations that Real Madrid wakes up, plus skilful name
dropping. This last point is exactly the reason for this post title.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Cesc, Ancelotti, Kaká, Xabi Alonso, Arsene Wenger
and Jorge Valdano are the most repeated names. When a couple of days ago
I confronted one of Florentino Perez closest associates (his former
Communications Director who was recruited from the SER Network and
currently runs a government friendly TV network) he was surprised by my
refusal of CR7, Valdano and Wegner. And I explained him what you are about
to read next, if you’ve had the patience to follow me and are still interested.
The conversation:
-Who’s going to finance the new video scoreboard so that Cristiano
Ronaldo can admire himself? (Adrian)
- That’s not true.
- I’ve seen him looking over and over, and even your Jorge Valdano
( also a Football commentator on the mentioned TV channel) mentioned it
on TV. And his attitude last summer with his arrival or not caused great
harm to the Club. And please jump on board with Florentino. Because if
not you’ll be held responsible for Valdano’s arrival. (Adrian)
- I can’t. I’m currently committed with other projects.
- Remember he’s the one that brought Queiroz as a Ccoach and Ramón
Martinez as head of the technical staff, the same Valdano that let go Hierro,
Redondo, Del Bosque and Makelele among others (Adrian)
(Valdano)
My negativism to Valdano is not new. I admired him as a player. That’s it. As
a Coach we won 1 Liga in spite of him because of two players, Amavisca and
Zamorano, whom he wanted to transfer during the pre season. During his
tenure we lost Luis Enrique to Barcelona due to his lack of confidence in this
excellent player. His major fiasco was when we were eliminated from the
Champions League by a minor Danish team and we were fined for undue
alignment (he had no knowledge that only three foreign players were allowed).
A feat he repeated when coaching Valencia and later as Real Madrid’s
General Manager under Florentino’s presidency, & subsequently lead to Eto’o
departure to Barcelona (he didn’t’ have a clue that his signing Walter Samuel
was married to a Spaniard, like himself) because there were three other extra
communitarian EC players in the team. Someone had to leave: the chosen was
the young & promising Samuel Eto’o!
Who is Arsene Wenger? How many European titles has he won? Does he know
the teams and players of the Liga? If you ask him what is "El Sadar" would he
know the answer and its new name? In my conversation I was told that the
Frenchman’s reputation came from the way Arsenal played and his great work
with young players. To which I replied that if they are so good how come they
don’t win as often. Two Premier League’s in how many years? His job in
discovering young players? Not from Arsenal’s ranks but from teams across
Europe and Africa. Which is not what we expect at Real Madrid? Real is
accustomed to players developed in their junior teams. Spain’s Clubs are full
of players Real raised & formed. Is it the same in England with young Arsenal
players?Back to the conversation:
- Who do you suggest? - he asked.
- The one we have, Mijatovic, is fine with me. He did in a couple of months
what it took your Valdano one season and a half to do.
Plus I don’t advise opponents for free and above all I’m loyal to SFS and
its readers…
ADRIAN VOGEL - El Mundano
