La Liga: Real Madrid almost complete Khedira’s signing
According to the latest reports, emerging out of the Madrid, Spanish capital’s dominant team Real Madrid have completed another summer signing. Sami Khedira, who impressed for Germany in the FIFA 2010 World Cup, has been signed by the Spanish giants for the low fee of around 10 million Euros.
Khedira previously played his football at Germany with Stuttgart. Earlier on in his youth, he joined Stuttgart’s second side, VfB Stuttgart II. From 2004 to 2006, Khedira made 21 appearances for the second string side and only scored once. Khedira’s natural position is in the midfield as a defensive enforcer. During the World Cup, Khedira played in the above stated position for Germany to good effect; he also managed to score once in the tournament.
Khedira made his breakthrough to VfB Stuttgart’s first team in 2006. He made his first team debut against Hertha BSC in October of 2006. In 2007, Khedira signed his first professional contract with Stuttgart; the contract was till June of 2009. Later on in the year 2008, Khedira extended his contract with the club to the year 2011. From 2006 till 2010, Khedira played 98 times for Stuttgart and scored 14 times for the German club.
Khedira choose to play for Germany’s national team despite his father’s Tunisian nationality, he made this decision because of his mothers German nationality. For Germany, Khedira made over 25 appearances for the under-21 side. He also captained the U-21 German national team to UEFA U-21 Football Championships, which his team won after defeating England in the final.
Despite Khedira’s imminent move to the Spanish giants, his club released a statement on 15th of July that Stuttgart had received no information from Real Madrid with regard to their ambitions to sign the German midfielder Khedira.
Khedira had only a single year left on his contract with Stuttgart, this fact made the deal easy for Real Madrid in terms of the transfer fee. Oliver Shaft, who is Stuttgart’s media spokesman, said that there had been no contact between VfB Stuttgart and Real Madrid. He stated this during his comments to the German Press Agency.
He also said, that Stuttgart can clearly rule out completion of any move between Sami Khedira and Real Madrid in the coming hours. Even, Sami Khedira’s agent Jorg Neblung said that his client was on holiday and thus no news should be expected with regard to his transfer.
However, the Spanish newspaper Marca has declared that Sami Khedira’s move to Real Madrid is in total agreement. Marca was also responsible for breaking the news related to Cristiano Ronaldo’s 80 million pound move to Real Madrid last summer. The paper has now claimed that Sami Khedira and his club VfB Stuttgart have agreed to a transfer fee amounting to 10 million Euros.
The Spanish newspaper also revealed that Khedira had visited Madrid’s training ground, Valdebebas on Wednesday to talk to Jose Mourinho. So far Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid has successfully signed Sergio Canales from Racing Santander, Angel Di Maria from Benifica.
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