It's too little for Pellegrini

by Alfredo Relaño
for As



Florentino has already spend 211 millions on transfers, among which those of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká, but Pellegrini has come out asking for more. He returns from a one-month holiday, a month during which the club has closed those transfer deals, has started a fight with Valencia for Villa, already ended, and with Bayern for Ribéry, on its peak. All this to strenghten a team that has won two of the last three leagues and finished second in the third one. But Pellegrini has arrived, he has pulled a face and at his first press conference he has asked for more. Publicly, so there wouldn't be any doubts.

He also asks that Sneijder would stay, while he's one of the few players Madrid could get a profitable fee for to compensate all the spending a little, and this shows some lack of co-ordination within the technical team of the club, that had made clear that the Dutchmen were destined to leave "to cash up". We should thank Pellefrini for his honesty, but we could also ask what he is going to add. And also ask him to think a little more about the club and not to throw around more requests, that raise the prices and complicate the negotiations on possible candidates for those spots.

He also said, and he's right there, that all the outgoing transfers should be dealt with before 27 July. It's not good that a team starts to work with too many players. The large and well-paid technical department is progressing slowly in this aspect. Of course it's not easy. Madrid always buys expensive and sells cheap. But when they sign executives and pay them those salaries, it's because they think that they can do things that aren't within the reach of the majority of the human beings. It's not enough to only applaud every time that Florentino closes one of his his big deals with players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká or Benzema.