"EL MUNDANO DEPORTIVO": REAL MADRID - NO TO CR7, VALDANO & WENGER

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.

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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

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REAL MADRID: RAMON CALDERON RESIGNS. SFS LOOKS AT THE POSSIBLE BEHIND THE "SHADOWS" REASONS

It’s dramatic but necessary, the forced resignation of REAL MADRID
President Ramon Calderon, who was overwhelmed by the huge amount
of evidence accusing him of acting unlawfully, corruptly & dishonestly,
has shaken the prestigious Club & the Football World. The important local
Sports daily “Marca” with the cooperation of national radio announcer
Jose Antonio Abellan of the program “El Tirachinas” (COPE), have
untapped the scandalous incidents during the Clubs General Assembly
last December of 2008. Mr.Calderon allegedly organized with “allied &
foreign” persons, who were non-Real Madrid members without voting
rights, to participate under the guise of appearing as true Club members
(“comisarios”) to vote in the General Assembly, & with their numbers
give the balance of the voting in favour of Calderon & his 2009 Budget.
Obviously, its scandalous!


























When radio announcer J.A.Abellan (JAA) unearths this, he is joined by
daily “Marca” who begin a series of scoops that splashes the incident
on the front page & across all media. The scandal & the evidence mounted
so much that it forces Mr. Calderon to call a press conference on
Wednesday explaining that he knew nothing & swore on his honour that
he did not know any of the “infiltrated” non-members at the December
2008 General Assembly.The daily “Marca” in its crusade, published the
next day photos of the“infiltrated”non-members together with family
members (eg the son) of Calderon & with Mr.Calderon himself. The killer
blow came today on the front page of “Marca” with the testimony of one
of the “infiltrated” persons – so called Nanin – claiming he followed
orders from Mr.Calderon.Obviously, Ramon Calderon had to resign even
though he wished to “ride the storm”, but this final blow to the “head”
made it impossible.

(picture of false members voting by "Marca")

Lets forget about the numerous other accusations made about Mr.Calderon,
which have been many - you can read them on the below posts - lets
attempt to see what may really be behind this devastating media objective
to get rid of Mr.Calderon as President of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol.
SFS repeats, Mr.Calderon had to resign, he took the risk of breaking the
rules & now he must pay, but what lies behind the shadows? Let’s look
at the parts involved & then try to fit the pieces. From here onwards it’s
all SFS speculation, I have no proof, & SFS is just a humble observer
that hasn’t access to the “shadows”. However asks the question: from

where did "Marca" & JAA get their information, pictures & documents?
The logical answer is from people within the Club or at least from who

had access to them from within.

Let’s look at Real Madrid. Given the title by FIFA as the “Most Important
Club in the 20th Century”, with most European Cups, the biggest &
most titled Club in Spain, with the most followers that number millions
in Spain, with World Wide interests both socially & economically, a Club
that moves & influences the masses & an authentic money machine.
Obviously the Club, & precisely its President has power, power to pull the
strings in many areas of Spanish, European & World social life. The Real
Madrid President is met as a dignitary in other countries with Prime
Ministers & Presidents of Nations going to met him personally on arrival.
Such power gives you friends, political favours, business opportunities &
enemies, jealous enemies that remain friends as long as they can share
the piece of the cake. Like politics the Club & its President has to look
after its STAKEHOLDERS & balance their individual needs & wants
against the Clubs own priorities & objectives. This is why Clubs invest
heavily in powerful Public Relations Departments & attempt to manage
their image, players, representatives, members, politicians, businessmen
…& the mass media.



















The Sports Daily “Marca” is Spain’s biggest read paper, more than the
conventional papers about current affairs. It has a readership of between
1.5-2million daily readers which highlights the importance & the power
of Football in Spain. In the last years, a few competitors have entered
the Sports papers market with “AS” (paper of rival, the SER) gaining year
after year more ground. There existed the view that REAL MADRID had
“penetrated”“AS” & used it as its main voice to influence public opinion,
thus giving the paper special favours, access to players & scoops (transfer
news etc). The leadership of “Marca” was under threat & needed
something to show everyone that it still called the shots in Spanish
Sporting journalism & that it still has the power to bring down Clubs
& even Club Presidents if needed. Obviously, just by observation ( why
precisely now question), something must have happened in the "Real Madrid
– Marca relationship" that upset the latter to want to redefine the power lines
& at the same time send a powerful message to its competitors, to all other
Spanish Clubs & their Presidents that it was still there & still Nº1. They have
proved it today with the forced resignation of Mr.Calderon, as the next
& future Real Madrid Presidents - & all Spanish Clubs - must take “Marca”
into account in their day to day operations.

(radio announcer J.A.Abellan)














Radio announcer JAA (COPE), was a commercial radio jock that moved
into the late night Sporting radio arena with a comic style show – “El
Tirachinas”. He wasn’t being taken too seriously from the bigger fish like
radio Onda Cero (800.000 listeners) & the powerful SER (1.200.000), plus
he wasn’t getting the audience. Then something happened, perhaps the
Real Madrid Club was not attending the needs & petitions of the JAA radio
show with more interviews or scoops, & the lack of attention & smaller
piece of the pie made JAA change strategy by putting the comedy in second
place. The “criticism” began to increase towards Real Madrid with more
investigating reports against Mr.Calderon & his activities. It seemed JAA
was sending a message that the “ugly duckling” of late night Football
radio was here & would now get its pay back for being “humiliated”.
Meanwhile “Marca” also moved into the radio area & “allied” itself with
JAA to attack, not only Real Madrid, but its perceived media “puppets”
& Real Madrid influenced radios, especially the SER. Its strategy worked,
they both increased their audience. Now, with the Mr.Calderon resignation,
the “ugly duckling” will be feared in Spanish Football, seen as a serious
Sports journalist & thus increasing his programme´s prestige, its audience,
his power & influence.

(ex-Real Madrid President F.Perez)

Then there is ex – President Florentino Perez. It’s been rumoured that the
ex – Real Madrid President wishes to announce his comeback & present
himself for re-election. His idea is to present himself as the “new messiah”
& thus go down in history as Real Madrid´s saviour & greatest ever President.
The next elections were due for 2010, however with the resignation of
Mr.Calderon, the caretaking Board has announced that they will now be put
forward a year for the Summer of 2009. Bingo! One objective has been
achieved. It is also rumoured that Florentino Perez is working in the
shadows to secure CRISTIANO RONALDO & - its speculated – or KAKA
to present them as signings if he is elected. SFS has no proof, it is only
speculating, but what if this is a change in the Global Spanish Football &
Media Balance of Power? Imagine a Florentino Perez – Marca – JAA
alliance? Too much of a conspiracy theory, perhaps?

Perhaps. It maybe that Florentino Perez will not present himself for the
Real Madrid elections. But what is true is that “Marca” & JAA are now
powerful players – STAKEHOLDERS – of Real Madrid, of the other Clubs
& in Spanish Football. They have fired a powerful warning shot to all media
competitors & let it be known that if anything is to be done or got to be
done they have to have a piece of the action.

Mr.Calderon has been naughty & has been caught out. But he has been
foolish & his naive actions have been food for the sharks. Everyone will
claim the brilliance in “Marca” journalism & JAA style, but its all much
more than what the simple eye may give to what it sees. It’s a jungle out
there, much more so in Spanish Football!

DISCLAIMER:Note this is an opinion by SFS. SFS has no proof & speculates based on its
observation, backed by reading, listening & watching of media. It exercises it´s free right of expression
& opinion.

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REAL MADRID PRESIDENT RAMON CALDERON RESIGNS

It´s official, its just been announced, REAL MADRID President RAMON
CALDERON has RESIGNED.

After meeting with his Board members this morning, Calderon has seen
that he has no option but to leave the position after the series of
accusations hailed at him which were backed by evidence of:

.Using the Clubs credit cards for personal use
.Allowing persons to jump the waiting lists to gain membership to the Club
(favouritism)
.The selling of tickets & VIP places, outside the normal official channels.
.Inflating transfer of player commissions.
.Placing non-Real Madrid members or members without voting rights in
the Budget Assembly to have them vote & gain the numbers he needed
to have his 2009 Budget approved.

This last accusation was the breaking straw.

He defended himself by saying he knew nothing & did not now the persons
said to have helped him with voting in the December 2008 Budget Assembly.
This proved to be a lie when Sports daily “Marca” published photos of the
“infiltrated” persons with Calderon family members & the President
himself.

The scandal & corruption was of such proportion that Calderon has had
no option but to resign when his Board members threatened to resign in
block. His original idea was to weather the storm, but the backlash has been
so strong that he has had to go.

Calderon will give a press conference this afternoon at 18.00 (Sp.Time) to
give more details. The new President will be VICENTE BOLUDA who
was his Vice – President.

From Barcelona paper "Mundo Deportivo" comes this cartoon from
"KAP" to describe things.

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REAL MADRID PRESIDENT LIKELY TO RESIGN OVER SCANDALS & CORRUPTION

The shit hit the fan & on REAL MADRID President RAMON
CALDERON´s face. The apparent scandals, favourtism & corruption
that have been brought out to the public eye - specially by Spanish Sports
paper "Marca" - is so heavy with evidence that it is speculated that
Calderon will announce tomorrow his resignation from the Presidency.
Having said this, Calderon is still saying he is not moving, unless his
Board force him too, & this is what the press tonight speculate that the
Real Madrid Board will do tomorrow: force it´s President to resign.

Spanish Football & Sports made the comment of the scandals here
a few days ago - go down the posts & see - with serious accusations
of corruption & commissions. However, the straw that broke the camels
back was the voting of the Clubs 2009 Budget last December 2008 were
evidence supports that Calderon & his "men" brought in false non- Real
Madrid members into the Clubs assembly to assure that he won the
voting on for his 2009 Budget. People were seen voting who are not part
of the Club & without rights that allied with Calderon, something he has
denied all this week alleging he does´nt even know them at all.

False! Marca has published photos of the false Real Madrid members
with Calderon family members & with the actual President.
























With the heat burning on his ass, Calderon has called an
extraordinary morning meeting tomorrow of his 12 team directive
Board where media speculate tonight that he will announce his resignation.
Papers like "Marca, AS, El Mundo..." say his own Directive team
has forced the situation threathening to resign in block if he does´nt
go. The fact is that the evidence has mounted up so much that it
makes it nearly impossible for Calderon to stay & a Club of Real
Madrid´s status cannot withstand such scandals any longer.

It´s cited that the current Vice- President VICENTE BOLUDA will
take over & later decide if the current team continues onto the due
election date in 2010, or anticipate the elections for this year.

It is hotly rumoured that ex-President FLORENTINO PEREZ will
run again & try to comeback as the "new messiah". The rumours are
that he & his team have been working in the shadows & say that they
may have tied for next year CRISTIANO RONALDO & /or KAKA.

Deep shit, huge CRISIS at this moment & a more than likely resignation
by President Calderon tomorrow. Stay tuned & see what happens. Will
he stay against all Clubs desires or resign as speculated? Tweet

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