Ugly despite Beckham
Sunday, September 18th, 2005Real’s priorities are all wrong
Who will save the Galacticos? It seems certainly neither the robin nor the beast can.
Real Madrid’s two major summer signings of Robinho and Julio “the beast” Baptista were supposed to put things right. They were certainly not Galacticos, a name given to Real’s mega signings, a tradition that started with Luis Figo’s signature in 2000.
That era is now gone and besides Chelsea buy anything which moves well these days. So instead, Real, with an ostensibly healthy dose of both forward thinking and retrospection, purchased defender Sergio Ramos alongside Robinho and Julio Baptista. Add those summer signings to a star cast of Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul and company and you have all the ingredients for grand success.
You can always count on the English media for an overreaction. That a 4-5-1 formation can prompt such clamour, such inquest, hints that the scribes are truly bored.