Mourinho's Summer Transfer Moves Will Cost Real €100 Million
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Jose Mourinho's Summer Transfer Moves Will Cost Real Madrid €100 Million - Report
Mourinho has requested three or four players for his team, which will push the total cost of summer transfers to €100 million...
Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid) - (Gettyimages)As reported by AS, Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho's summer transfer budget to form his ideal team will be in the €100 million range.
"I want three or four defensive-minded players but I want for us to improve in attack," said the Special One in a recent interview with the Spanish tabloid. And thus, Los Blancos are preparing to put the wheels in motion to make Mourinho's requests a reality.
The three defensive-minded players the Portuguese coach has his eye on are Inter's Maicon (right-back), Lazio's Aleksandar Kolarov (left-back) and a midfielder (either Roma's Daniele De Rossi or Liverpool's Steven Gerrard).
Negotiations for the Brazilian right-back have taken a favourable turn in that the player has publicly declared his desire to play at Real Madrid, effectively shutting Manchester City out of a swoop, but Inter are insisting on a fee of €35m, while Madrid seem unwilling to shell out more than €25m. <!-- if (!ord) var ord = Math.round(Math.random() * 100000000); dblClickIndex++; document.write('<iframe class="ad160x600" src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/gna.enus/level2;tile=' + dblClickIndex + ';sz=160x600;ord=' + ord + '?area=2l&pos=2&" ');document.write(' noresize="noresize" scrolling="no" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowTransparency="true" width="160" height="600">');document.write('<scr');document.write('ipt type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/');document.write('gna.enus/level2;tile=' + dblClickIndex + ';sz=160x600;ord=' + ord + '?area=2l&pos=2&">');document.write('</scr');document.write(
The same is the case for Kolarov, who Lazio price at €20m but Madrid are insisting on paying only €15m for him. For either De Rossi or Gerrard, Los Blancos are at liberty to pay €30m.
The only offensive player Mourinho is willing to shell out on is Benfica's Angel Di Maria and in that case the two teams are at an impasse; Madrid are unwilling to increase their offer past €30m, while Benfica continue to demand €40m for the star Argentine. Should Di Maria's transfer fail, Valencia's David Silva has also been strongly tied to the Bernabeu.
Madrid could be convinced to include players in their respective deals in cash plus player options and Royston Drenthe, Ezequiel Garay and Marcos Alonso are just some of the names that have been mentioned in reports.
Los Blancos are reportedy in no rush to make the signings should teams be unwilling to negotiate this early in the summer. In fact, Florentino Perez and co. are intent on waiting until August if needs be to see the price of some of the players come down. -
Xabi Alonso, Lass Diarra all for show???
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jose always has his own set of thinking