Raul will still start.

 

Drenthe on for Raul at half-time.

Thanks.

 

Ok cowboy... here's another one!

Guti will start.

EDIT: Damnit, you beat me to it with Gago/Guti! :frustrat: p

 

Alves will start.

 

If we sign Alves tomorrow, he will definitely start. There's no way Schuster is going to miss an opportunity to incorporate all his new signings into the line-up. I don't think we can sign Alves so soon, though, unless we meet Del Nido's demands.

 

Ok, if we get Alves and this man playing angainst Sevilla hahahahah thats one week before play for Sevilla against Madrid, for my logic is mision imposible 3. lol

 

If we sign Alves tomorrow, he will definitely start. There's no way Schuster is going to miss an opportunity to incorporate all his new signings into the line-up. I don't think we can sign Alves so soon, though, unless we meet Del Nido's demands.

I meant with Sevilla... hehe. :lala:

 

Well, del Nido is obviously not stupid and would prefer to wait until after this weekend to sell him to us, if at all.

However, Alves does not want to play in the CL qualifier on Wednesday. He's made that clear. They will want to cash in before problems arise on Wednesday.

 

IF!

would he be able to play at all? Like in CL that you cant play for 2 clubs in 1 season. Here in the supercup?

 

IF!

would he be able to play at all? Like in CL that you cant play for 2 clubs in 1 season. Here in the supercup?

lol

I don't think there's a rule about it.

 

Well, del Nido is obviously not stupid and would prefer to wait until after this weekend to sell him to us, if at all.

thats what i thought as well, or he made it a condition to make sure he wont play for us in that game.

 

I think that if he doesn't play on Wednesday, he will be our player very very soon. Or maybe CSKA London player ...

Like this I remember the situation with Owen! He was subtution against a austrian team on CL qualifing game and later comes to Madrid...

 

that would be funny though if Alves did join us and played with us on Sunday. Imagine we win too ! so he wins both games with different teams, and wins the cup maybe?

If Drenthe start at left back on Sunday i think Calderon will have officially become the new Perez

 

Diarra Trains At Half Capacity In Double Madrid Practice Session

With Gonzalo Higuain still nursing his leg break, Mahamadou Diarra became the only other Madrid player to exhibit any problems as the squad underwent a double training session this evening at Valdebebas...

On the day that president Ramon Calderon presented new signings Royston Drenthe and Wesley Sneijder to a 5,000-strong audience at the Bernabeu, the rest of the squad was hard at work in the training compound at Valdebebas.

Originally, the newly-arrived Dutch duo were to join the rest of the squad for an evening training session but time constraints seemed to have nipped this idea in the bud.

Instead, coach Bernd Schuster concluded the squad's double training session, complete with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Christoph Metzelder, both of whom earlier that day returned to the fold following their respective injuries.

In their place, though, comes Mahamadou Diarra. His injury prevented him from training with the group; instead, he worked at the margins at a much lower rate.

Nonetheless, the Malian defensive midfielder is thought to be in little danger of missing the Supercopa second leg clash with Sevilla this weekend.

goal.com

 

The injuries for Diarra already begin in August.

He's going to take a beating and dish out one of equal proportion I'm sure.

We do not have a player to step into his position and produce the same results.

 

The injuries for Diarra already begin in August.

He's going to take a beating and dish out one of equal proportion I'm sure.

We do not have a player to step into his position and produce the same results.

Better now so they just don't give up Emerson for free. I can understand selling him if we get a good offer, i can't understand just sending him on-loan or giving him for free.

Let him sit on the bench and do his job when we need him.

 

VL, no chance Emerson goes on loan or for free. Milan and Inter are constantly linked to him around 4 - 6 M Euros.

Also, Emerson has always been a starter and already had problems with the Bernabeu plus voicing his opinions in one season with us.

I strongly feel he'd cause problems sitting on the bench, particularly when you consider Madrid is not even close to being his preferred destination.

 

This match suddenly becomes extremely important. 5 defeats in 8 pre-season matches does little for confidence, but a victory here would return the calmness whilst easing some early nerves and anxiety.

It's our first match at the Bernabeu since winning the title against Mallorca, and in front of our home crowd I am sure the boys will produce a good game and take home the trophy. It will be interesting to see what kind of team Schuster puts out as it's very close to the season now.

 

We might pull a 1:0 and then go to penalties.
They way the team looks, doesn't matter it is only pre season/schuster is trying player/shcuster is trying formation, it is impossible to suddenly improve.

 

It goes without saying that the fans need to be patient. It's not Schuster's fault that once again we're relatively starting from scratch. It could take a few games, a few weeks or (God-forbid) even a few months to get everyone on the same page- tactically and mentally. Capello's sleep-inducing philosophy instilled into the players can not be terminated overnight, some of them still look like they're scared to move from their positions and offer something different. Schuster has a lot of work to do in order to get them playing his style of football with confidence. We will improve but it could take a little bit of time, once we have players like RVN, Pipita and Robben/Alves things will look much more rosier.

Noone should be pressing the panick button yet, it's far too early for this. Only in Madrid would fans question the coach without a single league game played!

 

you criticise capello pal....................but you know it and everybody knows it that schuster will have to deliver AT LEAST the same silverware with capello:La Liga.if we finish empty-handed..............he is off.calderon knows that he will have to give answers in that case.i am not saying that capello is Jesus and Schuster the Devil,but at the end of the day capello won.was capello lucky?what i know is that history wrote:"LA LIGA CHAMPIONS 2006/07-REAL MADRID C.F".that is ultimately what decides the continuity of a coach.

 

at least schuster had the decency to say in his presentation that taking over a team crowned as champions is of course better,rather than having to build a team from scratch..................he didn't ask for time.and how could he?you cannot ask for time,when you inherit the La Liga Champions.

 

at least schuster had the decency to say in his presentation that taking over a team crowned as champions is of course better,rather than having to build a team from scratch..................he didn't ask for time.and how could he?you cannot ask for time,when you inherit the La Liga Champions.

Yeah, and he's right. He can't ask for time. Not only this, he's somehow forced to win playing nice football, because in theory Capello was fired because his football was ugly.

Personally, I am happy with Capello's departure. I don't like his football, but his results are there and he didn't lie to anyone. Pedja knew him and knew that Capello was a coach to win, not to play nice. And this is something that everyone knew. You don't sign Capello to play beautiful football, but to win... and he did it.

Schuster has a lot of pressure on him. The worst of all is that Capello made a team according to his ideas and Schuster got that team with the additions made this summer, who are good players, but not the kind of players that put your team in another level.

At the end, all the doubts that surround the Bernabeu nowadays may disappear with a victory against Sevilla and another one against Atletico, but a couple of bad results can have a bad effect on the team. The pre-season results mean absolutely nothing, but they affect a team like Real Madrid who can't lose even these games without receiving a slap from the media.

 

Yeah, and he's right. He can't ask for time. Not only this, he's somehow forced to win playing nice football, because in theory Capello was fired because his football was ugly.

And I don't even understand that. Once the Capello machine started kicking, I saw some great games. Don't know what the complaint is.

Schuster has a lot of pressure on him. The worst of all is that Capello made a team according to his ideas and Schuster got that team with the additions made this summer, who are good players, but not the kind of players that put your team in another level.

Capello's team isn't really the problem. You can use that team to do other things, you just have to give them the right tactics. In my book, there were really only two players who were strictly for slow, control games and those were Emerson and Beckham. Everyone else can function pretty well in more open play.

At the end, all the doubts that surround the Bernabeu nowadays may disappear with a victory against Sevilla and another one against Atletico, but a couple of bad results can have a bad effect on the team. The pre-season results mean absolutely nothing, but they affect a team like Real Madrid who can't lose even these games without receiving a slap from the media.

That actually raises the next concern. Capello pulled up a team whose morale was flagging and was getting used to substandard results. Will the team now then just collapse in finger pointing with a few bad games?

 

i think we can forget alves , maybe schuster still use salgado

and i see sevilla will make a tie atleast (use their backup)