All Change At The Top For Real Madrid
The World Cup mightn’t quite have finished yet but one of the summer’s biggest club football stories continues to unfold at Real Madrid with Ramon Calderon being elected club president.
While this may conjure up images in Britain of an elderly man handing out youth team prizes at the club’s awards night the post of President is somewhat more influential in the realms of Spanish football and seeing as there are few clubs bigger or more influential than Real Madrid, Senor Calderon has hit the jackpot.
The circus that exploded around the election campaigns provided a great source of fresh news and intrigue for the assembled Spanish media and with wild claims from each presidential candidate about who they had signed to both play for and coach Real Madrid next season, I think the Bernabeu would have needed to add another dressing room just to fit all of the supersized egos into it.
In the end the early favourite, Villa Mir, was ran into third place after a crafty legal move by Calderon ruled the postal vote corrupt and after much mud slinging and slandering, the new president was announced as the former board member and eminent Spanish lawyer, ramon Calderon.
For those who only like their transfer rumours I’ll cut to the chase. Calderon has promised Juventus’ Fabio Capello as coach (believable considering the looming relegation fears of the Turin club), Arjen Robben from Chelsea (never really settled under Jose Mourinho and looked in good form for Holland in Germany), Brazil’s playmaker Kaka from AC Milan (another fine World Cup and probably the best of a lacklustre Brazilian squad) and most interesting of all, Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal.
Fabregas really lit up the Champion’s League last year with quality performances, not least against Real Madrid, and after a couple of years experience at the toptable in England it’s looking very likely that he’ll forego a return to his native Catalonia and former club Barcelona to join the new Calderon regime as Real Madrid look to wipe the taste of failure of the galactico era from their colective mouths.
Real Madrid presidents have to make big promises to get elected. Once in the post they have no option but to come up with the promised goods or they will see their whole presidency crumble under them.
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