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Real Madrid lose massive €68M on Dutch flop

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:59

Real Madrid's Dutch experiment has cost the club €68.5 million.

Rafael van der Vaart, a €11 million transfer to Tottenham, and Royston Drenthe, who signed with Hercules on Tuesday, were the last of the Dutch clan on the books of Real.

Two season ago, six Dutchman arrived, the aforementioned duo, plus Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar for a total of €127.5 million. And they have all left for fees totalling just €59 million - not including wages and bonuses.

Real president Florentino Perez, says El Mundo Deportivo, never rated any of the Dutch and is happy to clear them off his books.

 
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Comments (40)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 16:04.

LaLiga is a 2 club league, it's boring as hell. So it's not the best and most fun league in teh wrold. EPL all the way. Why do you think more people watch that league? Because it's better fool. xD

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 08:20.

La Liga is obviously the best league in the world and thats just a fact.

Submitted by wappa (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 04:03.

It's not long before the white handkerchiefs are out and then Mourinho
will be off and the whole project will be off and again madrid will be looking
for another coach again who will come in and demand his own new players and
then the spanish taxpayers will pay for those players while well established
players in the previous season will be sidelined as the new coach chooses
his own players, thats exactly how players are destroyed in madrid, no continuity,
no patience, no class but just greed, a very flawed strategy and vision
of football, and then you wonder why madrid has not won the champions league
for many years now and only a few laligas here and there. The reality is that there
is only one big club in spain and that club is in catalunya which is a minority tribe
in spain not exactly a full part of spain. Ofcoz the spanish league is more skill than
the EPL but is the best or more competitive than the EPL the answer is a big no
and thats a fact, take barcelona out of spain and what is have is a very mediocre
league and barca make that league appear at leat 10 times beta tha it really is.
l'm sure that perez wasn't saying that when he was buying all those dutch players,
its fact that madrid has a reputation and tendency of destroying players, the examples
are endless so l won,t bother naming that long list. comprende, adios amigos.

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