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• omgukilledkenny

  5 Jul 09, 02:19

   

  Perez calls for squad cull

  Real supremo says squad size is now too big

  

  Florentino Perez believes Real Madrid need to look towards trimming their squad following a number of world class summer captures.

  The Liga giants have broken a host of spending records this close season after capturing the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Raul Albiol and lining up a move for Karim Benzema.

  Real continue to be linked with other big-name players from around Europe, primarily defenders, but Perez says the time has come to trim Manuel Pellegrini's squad.

  Perez thinks up to 10 players may need to leave with the likes of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Royston Drenthe and Klaas Jan Huntelaar all being tipped to depart.

  Calm down

  "Now we need to calm down a little because squads usually have around 25 players and ours now has some 35," Perez told Spanish television station Cuatro.

  "We need to concentrate our efforts on convincing some players that they will have to leave. It should not be forgotten there is a World Cup next summer and all our players want to play in it.

  "If players aren't going to have the chance to participate here they'll want to do it somewhere else, to be able to make it to the World Cup."

   

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• Y_Shun

  5 Jul 09, 02:22

  Wheeeeeeeeeeeew, go get van der Vaart and Huntelaar!!! 

• marcteng

  5 Jul 09, 02:25

  Originally posted by Y_Shun:

  Wheeeeeeeeeeeew, go get van der Vaart and Huntelaar!!! 

  
  Robben and Wesly as well

• RvnRooRon84

  5 Jul 09, 02:26

  Originally posted by marcteng:

  
  Robben and Wesly as well

  Then might as well take Rvn too! :D

• marcteng

  5 Jul 09, 02:36

  Originally posted by RvnRooRon84:

  Then might as well take Rvn too! :D

  RVN time has pass it, 32 years old liao isnt it.

  if another big club bid for him, I will be very surprised. He can go back PSV, his dutch club

• omgukilledkenny

  5 Jul 09, 02:37

  Originally posted by marcteng:

  RVN time has pass it, 32 years old liao isnt it.

  if another big club bid for him, I will be very surprised. He can go back PSV, his dutch club

  How about RVN on a pay-as-you-play contract too?

• marcteng

  5 Jul 09, 02:39

  PSV is a top club in holland, together with Ajax

• zocoss

  5 Jul 09, 13:41

  Real has a real headache on their hands... Cos they have got 35 players and need to cut it down to 25 the number they can register but no one is willing to leave... lol

  Robben, Sneijder, Huntelaar all don't want to leave, so they will have to continue to pay their huge salaries as well as not being able to recoup some of the money they had hope after spending so much already...

• ViNnO

  5 Jul 09, 13:44

  Lol, Man Utd can try sign Robben to play wing.