TheVoiceOfTheVoiceless wrote:

RealGunner wrote:

TheVoiceOfTheVoiceless wrote:It's looking like 3 months. I'd expect him back by the start of March. It's unfortunate, but given Carlos lack of rotation I'm not surprised.
Animo Luka.

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RealGunner wrote:Luka Modrić named as 2014's 'Croatian Player of the Year

The Guardian UK wrote:Croatian prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected perjury against the Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric on suspicion of him giving false testimony in a criminal trial about his financial deals with a former Dinamo Zagreb director charged with embezzlement and tax fraud.

If charged and found guilty, he could face up to five years in prison. Modric testified last week at the trial of a tax official and three former senior officials from Dinamo Zagreb, including its former chief executive, Zdravko Mamic. Mamic is considered one of the most powerful people in Croatian football with a substantial political influence.

The state attorney’s office in the eastern city of Osijek, which is running the investigation of the false testimony, did not name Modric, as is standard procedure in Croatia.But the state attorney’s office referred to a 32-year-old Croatian who testified last week, a description that fits Modric and no one else. Local media, including state radio and television, identified Modric as the investigation’s target.

Modric testified as a witness at the trial of Dinamo officials on charges that they avoided paying 12.2m Kuna (£1.44m) in taxes and that they diverted 116 million Kuna (£13.7m) from the club, anti-corruption police said.“The witness falsely said that on 10 July, 2004, the date when he signed his first professional contract, he also signed an annex on the basis of which he had acquired a right to a 50:50 share in transfer fees,” the state attorney said in a statement. The attorney also said Modric falsely claimed he had signed such an annex every time he extended his contract.

Two years ago Modric testified to anti-corruption investigators that he had signed an annex to his contract at a later point, when he had already joined a foreign club, according to the state attorney.Modric moved to Tottenham from Dinamo Zagreb in 2008.

He joined Real Madrid in 2012.All three former Dinamo officials, who also include the former coach Zoran Mamic and the club’s former executive and current senior official of the Croatian Football Federation, Damir Vrbanovic, deny the charges.

Doc wrote:For reasons only known to God, decided to watch over both legs of the Super Cup and dear Lord, Modric is really a fantastic midfielder, would like to think best in the world but I'll go with the "one of". Don't think I've seen a player currently use the outside of his foot so accurately.

To think Jose had this ridiculously good footballer rotting on a bench for whatever reason during his tenure and only used him because he had no other choice. Even got the worst signing of the season tag too.

Doc wrote:For reasons only known to God, decided to watch over both legs of the Super Cup and dear Lord, Modric is really a fantastic midfielder, would like to think best in the world but I'll go with the "one of". Don't think I've seen a player currently use the outside of his foot so accurately.

To think Jose had this ridiculously good footballer rotting on a bench for whatever reason during his tenure and only used him because he had no other choice. Even got the worst signing of the season tag too.

Valkyrja wrote:Verratti and Thiago are both better than Pogba

vanDEEZ wrote:It's quite interesting to read the first few pages of this thread.