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In order to cash in for more Galactico after spenting near 200 million pound on Kaka, C.Ronaldo, Benzema, Albiol and Negredo already. Madrid are ready to offload all their Dutchman away after a season without obtaining any silverware. There is rumour about Real Madrid fax those player price list to all the top club as well as whole EPL club. An estimation of sale of all of the Dutchman would possibly bring in 100 million to the club to fund better player.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Despite just joining Real Madrid for 20 million Euro in January this year, Madrid are already prepare to listen to offer for the striker. So far Madrid has bought in C.Ronaldo who proven he can play in striker role and Benzema who is a natural and lethal striker. His role for the team are deeply in doubt after Benzema taken his No.19 Jersey Number and naturally he will be behind Raul, C.Ronaldo and Benzema for the lineup spot with rival of Van Nistelrooy, Higuain and Negredo backing up if any injury.

He is a profilic striker who scored 76 score in 92 matches for Ajax before moving to Bernabeu and hold a good international record of 13 goal in 23 matches. He has so far been link to English Trio Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal and has been put on a price tag by Madrid of 20 million pound which they paid for him in Jan.

Overall i would say he is being under used, a player of his caliber is good enough for big matches just lack of chance to prove so. Not his loss for sure if he leave for another big club.

Royston Drenthe
He is a winger who failed to impress on the left wing and has Marcelo taking the left back role which leave him out of Madrid first team squad. He is being label a price of 12 million pound at the moment and attracted both Fiorentina and Ajax. A moving to Ajax will be a better choice as dutch league suit his playing style better than ISA which required more psychical strength than technique.

Rafael van der Vaart
He was being placed on transfer listed as well, often being used as substitute in game, with Real Madrid still looking for an establish Center Midfielder, and constantly link to Liverpool’s Alonso. For an attacking midfielder to score 81 goal in 191 game in his career before coming to Real Madrid is impressive.

Too bad, he joined the wrong club. He should joins club which centralise around him and hold the team up instead of playing support for other big name player. He is currently link with Ajax and former club Hamburg.

Ruud van Nistelrooy
A key player who take up the striker role after Ronaldo left Madrid. He joined Real Madrid for 18 million euro and scored an impressive of 45 goal from 67 game in Madrid which contribute to 202 goal from 284 game throughout his career in PSV, Man Utd and Madrid. He has a bad last season which plague by injury for more than half of the season last year which link to his exit for the club with enforce of Benzema and C.Ronaldo into the club which reduce his chance of performing. During his first season with Madrid, he scored an amazing 23 goals in 32 leagues game which top European league scorer ranking and awarded Pichichi Trophy.

Since the summer transfer market reopened, Van Nistelrooy has been link with English Trio Everton, Tottenham and Blackburn. A player of his standard to be available at the price of 1.25 million pound seem very attractive, but it doesn’t last long. Everton soon switch target to Reyes while Tottenham switched to Huntelaar which both player are at the age of 25, which still can continues their career for the club for quite few club instead of Van Nistelrooy who is already 33 year old. Blackburn still remain on the target as they need someone who can cover their star striker Santa Cruz role who left for Man City. Still, in the end, Blackburn also seem to be giving up on the player due to the £90k weekly wage demand which will costs near £5m to support the striker yearly.

Hmm, a player who lost his peak and plague by injury lately shouldn’t ask for that much, perhaps to take pay cut to join Blackburn will seem to be the best solution for him to continues his football career. Once he joined Blackburn and proves that his form is back, obviously Blackburn will sign a new contract extension with pay rise to keep him with them till retire instead.

Arjen Robben
He is well known for his speed and ball control but often being underrated. Still remember those day whereby he just joined Chelsea and immediately bring effect by nice run and playmaking skill to lead Chelsea winning matches with clear winning margin. He also bring immediate effect by helping Real Madrid to retain their spanish title on the first season.

Despite lots of European club like Tottenham and Fenerbahce monitoring him, Robben made his stand that he would prefer to remain with Madrid and win back his position instead of moving on. So far none of the club who enquiry about himself interests him too.

I believe Robben is often being underrate but i still rated him as the standard on par with C.Ronaldo, believed his quality are good enough to be counted as 1 of the Galactico. Since Madrid unable to convince Bayern Munich to sell their star player Ribery to them, 1 solution can be done is use Robben instead. The only different between Robben and Ribery which i can think of is Ribery got the skill to influence in matches to bring out whole team capability instead. So sticking with Madrid will be a correct decision with other big name player signing this year, Madrid shall be seem as favourite which can overthrown Barcelona who lost their top scorer Eto in Champion Leagues.

Wesley Sneijder
He is a player who specialise in set pieces and taking free kick role most of the time for his club. He has been helping to fill up Robinho empty role and taken his jersey number 10. He has been quite constant with his performance for the club, just that their overall team performance and teamwork are below par which see them behind Barcelona 15 point at mid season which is quite impossible to chase up.

Since summer transfer market open, Sneijder has been used as a bargaining chip for quite a number of time of different occasion. This can be quite frustrated for a player who is loyal to his club as its seem that the club doesn’t show respect of you, whether you are interested with that club, that Madrid is dealing with. Madrid has been trying to get signature of Alonso to replace him or an alternative Aquilani who can fill up the slot comfortably.

A move to club which treasure him will be better for him although Madrid are currently 1 of the strongest club in the world with their player basis. It all depend on his character whether he is stubborn and arrogant that wanted to get back his role in the squad before moving on, or just joined another club which he can easily identify as the key player than wasting his time for chances in Madrid.

4 ISA title from the 4 season since he departed from Arsenal might seem bigger achievement than 3 EPL title he won with Arsenal from 10 season. But is he happier now in Italy than in Arsenal? Guess not, as the ageing Midfielder gained first title with Juventus but due to the scandal which see Juventus relegated and revoked of title and then he switched to Inter Milan. The other 3 title come with Inter but not directly come from his contribution as he often being used in rotation or backup for the title team as he found himself behind Javier Zanetti, Dejan Stankovic, Sulley Muntari, and Esteban Cambiasso.

In order to search for a more regular football, he look likely to move and was available for free transfer and so far attracted a number of club, Birmingham, Fulham, Tottenham, Lyon and Paris St Germain. He was at first appointed as captain for the Euro 08 Qualifying but missed the campaign due to injury. A regular football might see him retake back the armband for France squad again for World Cup 2010.

Paris St Germain was the first to be enquiry for the midfield before talk fallen due to wage demanding. Birmingham then join in to bid the midfielder and even offered 100k weekly wage for him. After that Fulham and Sunderland also express their interest in the out of favour midfielder. Soon Both Lyon and Tottenham also join in the race for his signature. So far Tottenham look favorite to be the next destination for the Frenchman as he was a good friend of Spurs manager Harry Redknapp.

A move to Tottenham will be a great deal for both the club and the man. Tottenham has concede the least goal at home last season. Tottenham form has changed from 4 win 6 draw and 12 lose from the start of the season till the signing of Palacios and Keana changed the form in January to 10 win 3 draw and 3 lose toward the end of the season. With the introduction of Vieira to the squad, Palacios and Vieira will surely form a formidable wall in front of the backline.

The striker who was famous for his trademark of celebration for goal which was known as RoboCrouch. He is currently link with 4 EPL club, Liverpool, Tottenham, Fulham and Sunderland. Sunderland was reported first to bid for the Striker for 12 million pound in early June whereby Fulham plan to hijack him at middle of June. Tottenham then join in the race at early of July with the same amount of bid. Latest new come from Liverpool who express their interest on Crouch too and he rejected the move to Sunderland since its make no effect for him to join a weaker club.

To Liverpool?
Liverpool seem to have the upper hand on the bid with Champion League offer. With Liverpool haven’t sign any striker yet, a return to Anfield will ensure his amount of playing time unless Benitez switched back the formation to 4 4 1 1 with lone striker Torres supported by Gerrard. By playing in the Champion League will definite higher his World Cup hope with his rival Owen, Rooney, Heskey, Dent, Defoe and Agbonlahor all have European football to play with their clubs next season. Its now up to himself whether to choose Liverpool as the only reason stopping him is as a supportive role to Torres and being outshined.

To Tottenham?
Tottenham have too many decent striker already, with Pavlyuchenko, Bent, Keane and Defoe, so his playing chance will be limited unless Spurs sell off some of them. The only way he will choose Spurs will be to join league with his former boss again who signed him back to Portsmouth from Kops.

To Fulham?
Fulham is an ideal choice for him. With Uefa cup playing chance, first team striker choices, with solidify defense and his add on of his height against set piece will make Fulham even harder to score against after Fulham concede the least goal apart from the top 3, Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea. Their weakness so far has been unable to score, as they scored even lesser than relegated Newcastle.