Good result for your team last night.

yeah because it means we have two quality defensive midfielders in diarra and emerson, which means capello often plays with a very defensive style midfield and just 1 striker. but emerson is very good and i like him. it wasn't his best season though.

Emerson was terrible at the beginning of the season, but has been a very important piece in the last 10-15 matches. Now I want him to stay. I don't like Cannavaro much though, he hasn't shown the same leven he showed in Juventus or Italy (some people say it's not the same to play with 4 defenders than with 5), but he's been a little better during the last games as well.

@sticky tissue, I don't live near Bernabeu but Madrid is definitely the best city in Europe in terms of public transportation, so I can get there in 40 minutes by subway (metro). And my opinion about the city will obviously be biased, but I just love it and tourists normally do as well. The night atmosphere is just amazing, great food, nice transportation, lots of cultural places and of course, our Bernabeu

Shame we don't have something like "You'll never walk alone" for the fans to sing, lol.

Oh, bienvenida Ana87

it's funny how so many world class defenders from italy have really failed in spain. cannavaro, thuram, zambrotta, and walter samuel at madrid a couple seasons ago have all flopped. i remember when i heard that we were getting samuel i was over the moon, i thought, finally we're getting top class defender instead of just spending our money on forwards and attacking midfielders. but he had a terrible season and was sold. the same thing happened with canavarro, i was over the moon when i heard he was going to be a real madrid player, but he's had a very poor season by his standards.

yeah emerson was good in latter part of the season. did you read his interview on the real website? he said wherever he has been he's been an important player but at real madrid he was struggling and wasn't important in the first team. he said he wasn't happy about that and would work hard to improve and make himself an important part of the team. well actually that was as he'd started to play well, so he basically just kept playing like that until the end of the season and did a very good job.

what about diarra? a bit of a rip off but has been important.

oh about the defender thing, we will have metzelder for next season but will he just become another player to add to the list of good defenders that underachieve in spain? i hope not!

so who do you think were real madrid's top 5 players last season?

i would say:-

beckham
van naslehair
sergio ramos
raul
cassilas

those 5 were so important to us last season.

by the way, what do you think of the real madrid website? i personally don't think much of it, i think it's too hard to find what you're looking for on there, not enough information about transfer fees, statistics like player appearances, goals, assists etc and a lot of things don't always work, like image links. you would think the biggest team of any sport in the world would have a slightly better site.

The most probable is that Capello doesn't continue in Real Madrid. The new coach will be Schuster.

finally a good news mate

There was a survey in Marca about the most valuable players of Real Madrid. You had to rate the players from 1(worst) to 5(best). There were just 6 players who got a 5:

- Casillas
- Sergio Ramos
- Miguel Torres
- David Beckham
- Raúl
- Van Nistelrooy

really. that's surprising. torres didn't really play much. he only played in about half the games last season. in fact it was less than that. he was good for someone so young playing his first season in the real madrid first team though. good player for the future, next sergio ramos?

what about 4's and 3's? did anyone get a 1?


so what do you think about the real website?


oh and what about schuster taking over if capello leaves?

Schuster is a good manager, but he has a big mouth, that's why I don't like him. He's like Mourinho in certain way (less polemic though).

Robinho, Higuaín and Guti got a 4, and Cassano got a 1

And about the real madrid website, I don't know, it works fine with me and I find whatever I look for. However I prefer Marca website, since you need to pay to watch a lot of stuff on realmadrid.com

the links never work with me and i think the lay out of the site isn't great.

what's the marca website anyway?

do you think schuster could handle real? we had sacked 7 managers in 3 seasons before capello tamed the beast. even capello nearly got the axe though.

I'd keep Capello but that decision is not up to me unfortunately. I think Schuster may handle Real Madrid, it's only that I don't like his character. Besides, he played for Barcelona and Atleti (and also Real Madrid), so I don't think it's the best option.

About Marca, is the most sold newspaper in Spain. Try www.marca.com but I don't know if there's an english version.

yeah, it's only in spanish. damn!

that sucks.

i wish i could speak spanis, or even better, the spanish only speak english.

how do you know english so well anyway?

How could players like Beckham, Miguel Torres & Raul be mentioned as Madrids most important players and Robinho is nowhere. On numerous occasions I've watched them this season and he has scored so many crucial goal when Madrid looked dead & buried.

raul and beckham have been much better than robinho.

Yep. Raul's goals and Becks' assistances have been more crucial than Robinho's goals. Even if I like Robinho and I admit he's done a good season.

so what are your 3 favourite real madrid goals from last season?

mine are

raul's against espanyol. the cross from carlos which ruud flicked on and then raul scored from a tight angle with the half volley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwDcCqei1w

van nistelrooy's wonder volley against valencia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U07IO-WFCc&mode=related&search=

and van nistelrooy's cheaky little chip against steaua bucharest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0_15W5KEA

rual? anyone?

Yeah, those are wonderful goals.

I also liked the one Raul scored against Deprotivo (nice assisted by Becks), Reyes free kick against Mallorca in the first leg and again Raul against Barcelona in the Bernabeu.

yeah i liked those raul goals but they were headers so it's quite hard to put them in my top 3. reyes scored two good fee kicks last season.

oh and i like breasts, but i prefer your old avatar. everyone has breasts in their avatars now.