Sentences with phrase «of galacticos»

Today, from the touchline, he can call upon Casemiro, and it is striking just how many similarities can be drawn between the Real team of today and the first wave of Galacticos that Zizou sat at the heart of, not only dictating play but defining an era; defining a style.

Many will think of the Galacticos primarily as a commercial scheme — perhaps they are right — but Florentino Perez is only following what made Real Madrid such a successful club.

And speaking of Galacticos, there is one former player who could argue about the statement of Ronaldinho being the best player when he was around.

It was a statement of intent that sent shockwaves through Europe and cemented Real's status as gatherers of Galacticos.

«I defend to death my policy of the Galacticos,» said Perez, after the defeat to Juventus.

With Gareth Bale another attacking player not at his best this season, it makes sense that Real are, according to Don Balon, looking at Alli as a long - term replacement in that area of the pitch as they look to put together another group of Galacticos for the next few years.

«[Real president] Florentino Perez looks at the world market and wants a team of Galacticos for everyone to admire,» Rexach told Regio7, according to The Metro.

Perez announced his candidacy for the top job at Real during the week and the architect of the galacticos era is reported to be keen on bringing Wenger to the Bernabeu, having failed with a previous attempt to lure him from Arsenal in 2003.

One of the Galacticos at Real Madrid, Roberto Carlos is another former Brazil star who makes it into Coquelin's dream XI in defence.

Real Madrid are looking at bringing in a new generation of Galacticos according to recent reports, with estbalished Premier League stars at Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United among their targets.

The era of the galactico manager is here: the egos and the complicated philosophies, the mind games and coded messages, the sniping and arrogant post-match interviews all adding to the spectacle and feeding into the all - pervasive world of the Premier League.

Not exact matches

With a number of Real Madrid fans in discontent following the sales of big names such as Angel Di Maria and Xabi Alonso this summer, not to mention the departure of key player Mesut Ozil to Arsenal last year, the Spanish giants are under growing pressure to bring in more Galacticos this January.

The Galacticos club are said to believer that Alexis will not be signing a new deal with the Gunners, and any attempt to agree terms would be a waste of time.

Real are known for their method of signing «Galacticos» and beating their rivals to the world's best players, and that may see Arsenal miss out on this particular transfer target.

Of course I'm not to believe the latter, although I would love for our club to try and prise him from the Galacticos, although I can't imagine they would be willing to sell.

The 15 - year - old is highly rated and the Galacticos still want to keep hold of the midfielder despite this interest.

After signing Angel di Maria, potentially Radamel Falcao and a host of targets perhaps Messi would be the jewel in the crown of the «Old Trafford Galacticos».

Signing both Hazard and Kane as their next Galacticos would be a huge statement of intent, but may also be a wise and necessary move to replace the misfiring front three of this season.

That's right, Ronaldo, one of Real Madrid's Galacticos, is now one up on Messi in galaxies named after him.

Los Blancos often let their money do the talking rather than their youth academy, but every now and again a player, or a series of them, breakthrough into the first team and blend in with the Galacticos.

In short, he became a luxury that they could afford, a crowd pleaser in a galacticos full of crowd pleaser's.

The next galactico is out there, somewhere, and the process of making him galactic is just getting started.

The obvious solution in the interim is for Wenger to give up his dream of trying to put together an English galactico's and concentrate on changing his on field tactics something much more perfunctory.

I know every team has their off days but I do get some perverse pleasure when I see one of the so - called unbeatable, beast galactico teams like Real look so ordinary.

But who makes the list of top 10 best Galacticos signings?

Truth be told we only really have 6/7 world class players (and a lot of very good players) at best, and whilst todays football doesn't require 11 galacticos in the starting 11, you still need a strong backbone.

The Champions League match was only his fourth start of the campaign, and he has managed just five goals for the Galacticos.

Paris Saint - Germain have been linked with the Manchester United target all summer, with Real Madrid all set to cash - in to recoup some of their transfer kitty back after a busy summer of new Galacticos.

The Club of the Principality may have fallen short, but they gave a good account of themselves and proved that there's reason for optimism at the club, despite the decision to drop the «Galacticos» policy.

Real Madrid have been tipped to sign two Galacticos this summer by Guillem Balague, and he has a five - man shortlist of who they might sign too.

Just read your post a few above mine and apparently it's true that we're on the verge of breaking Prem League wage rules with our plans for fat deals for our 2 galacticos.

So we here at Squawka have come up with a list of seven Galacticos that fit Manchester United's needs more than Griezmann!

Florentino Perez, president of the club from 2000, still defends his signing policy, widely referred to as the «Galacticos Policy» by the English press and rather derisively referred to as «Zidane y Pavones» by the Spanish press after the best and the worst aspects of the Real Madrid side after Perez became the club top dog.

Another Ronaldo goal, headed in from a corner, took the Galacticos» MVP to a total of six goals in four matches.

Coach Former Madrid galactico Zinedine Zidane has impressed as coach since his appointment in January following a stint in charge of Madrid's Castilla side.

During his playing career, Zidane was one of Real's key «Galacticos», a label given to the expensive players signed by Perez during his first spell as president in the early to mid-2000s.

«His contract (where he can dictate his own terms of training) is not odd if you think of the business plan of Real Madrid - a club that is always looking for galacticos.

At first, it seemed that the baseless bombast of the year before had given way to a more thorough, organised approach to recruitment, at least until the rather more impulsive signings of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao — players dubbed as «Galacticos» by the media.

But, in an interview with the Daily Mail, the playmaker stated that he is currently playing the best football of his career and despite not having the aforementioned «Galacticos» ahead of him he seems to be finally happy with his teammates and role at the Emirates.

Real Madrid are one of the most famous clubs in the world, and their lavish spending to recruit the world's best players has led to them being nicknamed «The Galacticos».

It's unlikely Levante will be taking down the likes of Los Galacticos and Villareal in three or four months time but the frogs have definitely set themselves up to perform above all expectations this season.

The latter, a key figure in Wolfsburg's Bundesliga silver medal last term, only signed a new contract with the Wolves early this year — taking him through to 2019 — but what the Galacticos want, they usually get and an offer of around 30 million euros should be enough.

I was just tying to point out to one of many desires a true fan has with his club.What lack of brains are you talking, when you yourself need some in seeing the big picture about the lack of trophies we had and I was just trying to prove that «Galacticos» idea can help wenger in his youth driven policies.

The Galacticos cheered up the visiting fans by turning on the giant screen to telecast a repeat of the Spurs come - from - behind victory over Arsenal in the Premier League.

Previous reports of leaving Dortmund only for the Galacticos have been denied by the 27 - year - old, which appeared to open the door for him to leave Germany for Manchester City in the Premier League but nothing has come of those claims earlier in the summer.

After joining Real Madrid for a then record transfer fee, Zizou led the «Galacticos «to La Liga and Champions League titles, at the time becoming one of a select few ever to have won league, Champions League, European Cup and World Cup titles.

Zidane has won numerous personal awards as well as club awards and he was part of the famous Galacticos, it does nt matter how Lampard scored the goals....

Thousands of cheering fans welcomed the Colombian to Madrid at his official unveiling at the Bernabeu, where Florentino Perez greeted his new galactico.

The Galacticos beat the Catalans 3 - 1 in the first leg of the Supercopa de Espana.

Jose Mourinho was not able to break the dominance of Barcelona, or win the club am historic 10th European cup, so it seems that Perez will turn again to his Galacticos approach.