Not content with joining in with the throng of Modric's twatty mates touting him for Real Madrid in the summer, the ex-Arsenal and West Ham flop is now doing the same for Gareth Bale. Just what is has to do with the President of the Croatian Football Federation is anybody's guess, but his stint at the Bernabeu may have something to do with it. Perhaps he's looking to limit his countryman's chances of getting into the Madrid first XI even further, so that he's well rested for international ties? You'd think that he'd have better things to do with his time, given the relative importance of his job title.
Real are well known for this kind of tapping up. Usually, they get La Marca to do their dirty work for them. But, I suppose everybody is aware of that one now, so it looks like they are trying to come at it from a different angle.
Real Madrid are in a bit of a fix on this one, as they don't have a single old boy from the Principality. Juventus would be a potential worry, if it wasn't for the fact John Charles is dead whilst Ian Rush has no influence due to being a one-season washout...
Villa has influence in Argentina Waddle has influence in France Hoddle has influence in Spain Ardiles has influence in Argentina and Japan Lineker has influence in England (and possibly Spain) Klinsmann has influence in Germany and the USA Davids has influence in Holland and Italy (and possibly Spain) That's a decent selection of old boys to give loaded quotes to a variety of newspapers, so we need to get cracking!
HBIC, out of that list, I would only trust Jurgen to talk sense! maybe we should send bale updates on Modrics time at Madrid. Games started 0 Goals scored 0 Assist's 0
For those that can't read Croatian (or use a the translation facilities on their browser... ), that's Davor Suker posing at the grave of Ante Pavelic. Pavelic was the Croatian Fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia and a puppet of the Nazis during WWII, who ordered a variety of atrocities upon the civilian population. The people he's posing with were both dodgy mafioso types, supposedly. Classy. He's not a very good left-back and Utd are skint. They've also got Evra's successor in that Dutch kid.
Sure, they'll just have to send us Hernandez and Cleverley free of charge to cover the chunk of the fee they can't afford...
I'm glad Bale is being touted for Real Madrid, shows you how good he is. Shame we haven't got more players coveted by the top european clubs.