Liverpool, Arsenal & Tottenham want Granero

I know It's Marca, but this is some interesting stuff lol

Granero is solid, a quality player. Nobody can convince me otherwise. If he is happy to remain a Real Madrid squad player, I am happy for him to stay. If these are the clubs rumoured to be looking at him, then it proves my previous evaluations of him.

He did do some fantastic passes this year altho

I have to admit Granero is one player that puzzles me.

Granero is meh, but Id kept him, if he can actually give an decent cross.

Another player that's gifted technically, but needs to get tougher and meaner. He gets pushed off too easily.

what's his job on the pitch btw?

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:what's his job on the pitch btw?

hes supposed to be an midfielder.

That's the thing. You'd think he's an offensive b2b. But he's not quite good enough going forward for that. He's a bit too weak on defense to handle the defensive b2b duties. His passing is pretty good. Forget the DM role.

He's one of those guys that can fill every midfield role, other than DM, in an OK manner.

But if he wants to become a truly good player, which i think he can, he needs to develop a specialty and get tougher.

Granero is like Ramires, sometimes I cannot understand whats their purpose are on the pitch.

One thing I will say about him. His indirect free-kick and delivery from corners are impeccable, even better than Xabi and Ozil. I'm dead serious. Just pay attention when he is taking a set piece, 9 out of 10 times, bang on the money.

Giovanni10 wrote:One thing I will say about him. His indirect free-kick and delivery from corners are impeccable, even better than Xabi and Ozil. I'm dead serious. Just pay attention when he is taking a set piece, 9 out of 10 times, bang on the money.

Wait until you see Sahin. He's extremely good at set pieces.

I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

Giovanni10 wrote:I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

Dont worry he isint lazy at all, and yes he backtracks.
somewhat

The xcx wrote:

Giovanni10 wrote:I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

Dont worry he isint lazy at all, and yes he backtracks.
somewhat

What Im more worried about was hes knee injury, they are the worst injuries ever imo. Hope he starts with the same form he had in Borussia tho.

The xcx wrote:

Giovanni10 wrote:I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

Dont worry he isint lazy at all, and yes he backtracks.
somewhat

shweeet! Looking forward to seeing him play then!

Giovanni10 wrote:I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

He's good defensively, mostly because of positioning and work rate. He works very hard out there. He's a more offensive version of Xabi.

sportsczy wrote:

Giovanni10 wrote:I don't watch Bundesliga so don't know much about Sahin, but I've heard he possesses great technique in possession and passing. Can Sahin win the ball though? He doesn't have to be a beast like Pepe, but if he has ball winning ability akin to someone like Chelski's Ramires, then that would be great.

He's good defensively, mostly because of positioning and work rate. He works very hard out there. He's a more offensive version of Xabi.

Whilst being slightly more physical? See I'm not really to fond of Xabi Alonso, because I want my central midfield to be strong and fast, something which he lacks. I would sacrifice a bit of Xabi's passing skill to have him as a more complete midfielder. Now Sahin sounds like a more complete player. Xabi was great for Liverpool because Mascherano was the perfect Yang for his Ying i.e. Masch made up for Xabi's lack of physicality whilst leaving the majority of the passing duties to Xabi.

Now I want the best of both worlds. Not a Xabi hater, but just wish he was more of an all-rounder, he is not what I look for in a dm.

Speaking of canteranos, it looks like Esteban Granero’s position is once again safe, due to UEFA’s rule requiring teams to have at least eight national players. For Madrid, they are Iker, Adán, Sergio, Arbeloa, Albiol, Xabi, Callejón and Granero, assuming that Mou gets his wish and Peter Lion and Sergio C. leave.

From unamadridista.

This is a pretty good point! They'll need another Spaniard to replace him, then. So I guess that if no other Canterano is promoted to the first team, Granero stays, LUCKILY. Kid has great potential, and I am an canterano fanboy.

Don't players you sign as kids and develop count? I thought it did. In that case, I think Marcelo and Higuain may held us against this rule.

sportsczy wrote:Don't players you sign as kids and develop count? I thought it did. In that case, I think Marcelo and Higuain may held us against this rule.

Home-grown players’ are defined by UEFA as players who, regardless of their nationality or age, have been trained by their club or by another club in the national association for at least three years between the age of 15 and 21. The UEFA rule does not contain any nationality conditions. It also applies in the same way to all players and all clubs participating in competitions organised by UEFA.


I'm a bit lazy to do that math but if I'm not mistaken this rules Higuain and Marcelo out

if we do take a midfielder from madrid, i hope its gago

Everyone's hyped on Gago after one good performance? He happens to be injury prone and in my opinion, extremely inconsistent when he does play regularly.

Not only one good performance
He's also great in last friendly before CA against Albania
And when coming as a sub in CA second match, he did better job than Cambiasso & Banega

There's no denying that he's talented, that's certain. The problem is that he goes through long injury layoffs and has never been consistent since moving to Europe.