Real cool their interest in Young as Villa demand £30m

• zocoss

  29 Dec 08, 22:22

  Real Madrid cool their interest in Young as Villa demand £30m for England star
  

   

  

  Villans hero: Ashley Young has been linked with a move to Real Madrid in January.

   

  Real Madrid have conceded defeat in their bid to sign Aston Villa star Ashley Young - for now. Sources in Spain say the Spanish champions will not make a move in the January transfer window after being told he would cost £30million.

  Juande Ramos made Young his No1 transfer target after taking over at the Bernabeu, but Real will wait until the end of the season to make their move after already shelling out about £20m to take midfielder Lassana Diarra from Portsmouth and a similar figure to sign striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Ajax.

  Real president Ramon Calderon, sporting director Predrag Mijatovic and coach Ramos will discussed their strategy for signing the 23-year-old over the last few days.

  One option was to offer Rafael van der Vaart in part of a player-plus-cash deal. The Holland forward has struggled with injuries and form since signing from Hamburg in the summer.

  But Real are also looking a cheaper alternatives to Young and are still interested in signing Jermain Pennant from Liverpool.

  Benfica's Argentina winger Angel di Maria is another option, though the Portuguese team are reluctant to sell in January and would only settle for a deal at around £15m-£20m.

• limpper

  29 Dec 08, 22:23

  lol. torres also nvr cost so much, not even rooney.

• zocoss

  29 Dec 08, 22:43

  Priced high high then they will go away and not come back to disturb you again...

• The man who was death

  29 Dec 08, 22:49

  Originally posted by zocoss:

  Priced high high then they will go away and not come back to disturb you again...

  yesh this is a good tactic....use with barry and now young...

• zocoss

  29 Dec 08, 22:54

  Anyway, Villa is not a club in need of money... They have enough of their own... And O'Neill have spent wisely over the years...

• reyes

  30 Dec 08, 00:19

  young worth 30million?

  only man city can pay such price. even man city is not that stupid to do that

   

• xstryker

  30 Dec 08, 00:23

  lol but young is good

• Y_Shun

  30 Dec 08, 00:30

  lol Real pwned!!!

• brokenluv

  30 Dec 08, 00:53

  england are producing several good young players and i think they need some foreign exposure to improve.

• Agenda

  30 Dec 08, 01:19

  yes yes come get pennant

• sg_forum

  30 Dec 08, 11:34

  Martin O'Neil is a greedy chap...first he valued Barry at £18m, now Ashley for £30m? hillarious! lol

• limpper

  30 Dec 08, 16:43

  ya, o'neill's pricing of players, joke.