Cash-rich Malaga and their chances in the 2011/12 La Liga season – La Liga debate
Rich with Qatari petrodollars, Malaga are causing a stir in the summer transfer window. With the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ruud-van-Nistelrooy-c31966 and Julio Baptista at his disposal, Manuel Pellegrini will be hoping to improve on the 11th spot they finished last year.
The recruitment drive is not over and the addition of Jeremy Toulalan is certainly not going to be the last of the summer. With a rich mixture of experience and youth, Malaga will be an entertaining prospect in the 2011/12 La Liga Season.
2010/11 La Liga season was a disaster and it was not until the January transfer window that the oil-rich Nasser Al Thani stepped in to make things right. In came former Real Madrid manager http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-c23383 Pellegrini and a plethora of signings that lifted the Andalusian
club from the bottom of La Liga in January to a respectable mid-table position. The owner has picked up from where he had left of and a sizeable amount has been made available for transfers. The club has high ambitions which have been well documented over
the post-season and exemplified by their transfer window activity. Only Read Madrid have been more active than their southern counterparts.
The club had a negative goal difference to boast at the end of the season ended. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/CA-Osasuna-c38712 for a reported 6 million Euros. Jeremy
Toulalan has been brought in for a whopping 10 million Euros to provide cover to the back four. Malaga were conceding 1.79 goals a game for the entirety of the season and with the addition of Mathijsen, Toulalan and Monreal they shall duly improve on this
statistic.
The addition of the unpredictable http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Julio-c19950 Baptista ended as Malaga’s marquee signing as he scored 7 goals in the last 8 matches of the season. The seaside club have now added experience in the form of Ruud Van Nistelroy. To aid in the attacking department,
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 star. Pellegrini will be hoping this improves the attacking statistics of the team.
With the addition of Toulalan, the midfield is now complete and is a better matchup than before. However, it is not the midfield that caused the Andalusian club big trouble, goalkeeping remained the outfit’s Achilles heel. With http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Asenjo-c33042 already out
of the club, Malaga need effective reinforcements in this department. Ruben http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Martinez-c24468 and Sebastian Fernandez failed to prove themselves as capable deputies and hence bringing in a fresh face is of extreme importance.
Malaga will be competing against the likes of Villarreal, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863, Atletico Madrid, and Sevilla for a place in the top six. As Malaga enrich their squad with youth and experience, their competitors are facing mass departures.
Villarreal’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vicente-c36001 Calderon,
while http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabiano-c13129.
With most top clubs bracing themselves for a summer of reconstruction and uncertainty, Malaga are ready to pounce, hoping to build on the strong set of results they registered in the latter part of the 2010/11 season. Qatari investment has been utilised
wisely under Pellegrini, and European football does not sound a farfetched notion in the seasons to come.
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