Come On Eileen

By: Corey | September 6th, 2007

The Grapevine 9/6

Today theres some interesting news, a little Soldado, a little Sneijder, and a little Cesc. See, heres the deal, this is all news I pull together from Marca, AS and a couple of other Spanish websites. But in an hour or two its all over goal.com and tribalfootball, so I kind of get lazy sometimes and wait for that to happen so I dont have to scratch my head when I cant remember a word of Spanish. But its for the readers, this is your one stop spot for all Real Madrid news. And who actually likes goal.com?

Brief Sidenote:
As I was sitting in a staff meeting last night at ohh I dont know, 9, and I got a sudden urge to listen to an old song that has always been a favorite of mine. Maybe it was the introduction of the new iPOD touch, or the stale, boring flavor of the meeting, but I had to listen. So I plugged my headphones into my laptop and bam, I was listening to this in the meeting:

- First up, RVN says that

“Wesley is a boy with tremendous quality,” Van Nistelrooy said.

“His ability is not in his height, but in his feet. He has a great mentality and he is very young

“For Madrid, Sneijder was a great signing, a real luxury.”

I wouldnt call him a luxury, because he will be playing in most games, not a influential bench player. I like Sneijder, its hard not to, and if he continues in this form we will have no problem with keeping the pace a the top.

- Nothing to do with Real, but Bojan Krkics father is telling Barca that if his son is not given a chance to play in the team like Gio and Marc Crosas, then he will have to look for anothe team. Cough Real Cough. I may be dreaming, but that would be something.

- Roberto Soldado has stated that if he doesnt play then he will leave in January, which seems fair. He should play, he is not as good as RVN but he provides a different game and that is always needed. Lets hope Schustie sees the light and plays him over Saviola, who looks past it at the moment.

- Cesc Fab has said that he did indeed talk to Real this summer but decided to stay with Arsenal “for better or worse” and that he was “100% happy with his decision”. Thats good, we got Sneijder instead of him, I would take Cesc over Sneijder, but for now im content with what happened. Cesc is great, but he would either push Sneijder or Guti out of the team, most likely Sneijder. Lets wait two years or so, then sign him when he is good and matured. Like a fine Pino Grigio..

- Michel Salgado is glad he stayed on at Real. Im not, because Im all for change, and Miguel Torres needs to play at right back.

- http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=55589 Here is me being lazy. This actually happened yesterday, but I forgot about it. Anyways, Real signed a young guy with a German last name from Danubio, and he will play for Castilla this year.

- Arjen Robben is going to use the international break to get fit for the next game against Almeria, which is a week or so away still. I hate international breaks, everything stagnates for them, its so boring. Atleast these round of games actually mean something.

On that note, Spain plays Iceland on Saturday and Latvia on Wednesday. 6 points should be obtained here, and hopefully Svvvvvveeden (what kind of country is Sweeden. Beautiful blonde girls, then Christian Wilhemson and Zlatan, throw in Euro-pop sensation Gunther and you have yourself a party I guess?) loses to Denmark, so they dont get any points this break, leaving Spain in a good position. That would means Spain would have 21 points, Sweeden 18, Denmark 13-16, and North Ireland, well does anyone actually think they can keep this up? I think the wheels are coming off now, Lawrie Sanchez is gone and it looks like the miracle run is done. Theoretically, if the Denmark-Sweeden result goes to Denmark, Spain will go top of the group this week. I still hate Aragones no matter what, he picks the same fucking players despite their form. Dip shit.

Also, the France-Italy encounter should be interesting, I would check it out. Im gonna try, if im not going cliff jumpin on Saturday.