After last season’s demolition of La Liga you would have thought Barcelona would be most players destination of choice over the summer. It would seem this is not the case though as Real Madrid have emerged as favourites to sign pretty much everyone, including Bayern Munich’s French ace Franck Ribery.
For all their attacking, beautiful and intricate football last season it would seem as if Barca still don’t have the financial clout to match their arch rivals. You have to wonder how all these new forwards will fit into the Real side, with Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul, Gonzalo Higuain and whoever else they buy all vying for places there are going to be some pretty high-profiled faces on the bench.
This is what Ribery’s agent, Alan Migliaccio, told RAC-1: “Ribery would prefer to play for Real Madrid than Barcelona,
“The player has talked with Zinedine Zidane and he wants to play for Los Blancos for him.
“But at this moment everything is blocked because the people at Bayern are on holiday until the end of the month.
“I can’t say anything else until we meet them in the next few weeks.”
Currently Real are second favourites to lift the title with the football betting odds, with Barca odds on favourites to retain it. It is a similar story in the early Champions League betting odds where Real are currently second placed behind Barcelona in the early markets. The bookies seem to think Barcelona will continue with their success but Real are still attracting the players. However, from where I’m sitting though they need to shore up their defence before they continue in the pursuit of the world’s best forwards if they’re to win any silverware next season.
