Madrid and United have increased my disdain for them this summer with their illegal bullshit transfer dealings, which of course they get away with. Calderon+Ferguson are the two biggest hypocrites in the world, even moreso than Blatter.

John – I don’t think we’re complaining about the other clubs’ behavior in this case. There are very clear differences between CRon to Real, and what ultimately was Robinho to Man City. Both Ronaldo and Robinho stated publicly that they wanted to leave, Manchester United refused (and I don’t wholey disagree with them- if you sign a contract, you can’t really complain about having to see it through) whereas in the end, Madrid respected Robinho’s wishes. They weren’t willing to sell him to Chelsea, because Chelsea wasn’t willing to pay the asking fee. When Man City met our asking price, then we said goodbye to Robinho (I think Man United will ultimately regret not taking 100 million Euros for Ronaldo – in my opinion, he’s definately not worth that much).

What we’re complaining about is a player that still had a lot of potential acting childishly and disrespectfully to our club. In the end, Corey’s (hilareous) response was just a funny way of showing that dispite our (Madridistas) disapointment, a player who shows so little respect for a club and such plainly greedy motivation is better off gone. And I thought that a purposely childish message of good riddence (that picture is priceless, c’mon!) was a witty riposte to Robinho’s clearly childish behavior.

The Robinho matter, which still is fresh in my head, is one of the things that J has spoken about so well in many of his posts on the modern game. Robinho wanted more money from Madrid, then didnt want to be included in a swap deal, then he wanted more money, then he wanted to move to a big team in the EPL after his agent raised hell in the press. What did he get? A big paycheck at a mid-table team, regardless of the new ownership. He clearly went for the money, its as simple as that. Why would a player who could have transfered to Chelsea all of the sudden sign for Man City?

This kind of transfer market activity, which is fairly EPL-centric, is ruining the modern game. Ernest Bouwes, a Dutch contributor to ESPNsoccernet.com wrote a great article on this very issue on the site, check it out. If teams with wealthy owners (24 hours into their regime, right?) are the future of this game, I dont want to be a part of it. Ill just keep supporting the constantly underwhelming Buffalo Bills in the communist-like nature of the NFL.

I also think it was time that we got a taste of our own medicine: that whole “strategy” to get big time players to come to Madrid (Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham) was developed by Florentino and his team, and is the same that Robinho used (ask for a transfer publicly, threaten not to play, etc, etc).

Take care everybody, and Jay, don’t be mad at Corey, he’s obviously very upset by this fiasco, but he’ll come around….

HALA MADRID