Lassana Diarra wants to leave Real Madrid
It has been reported that Real Madrid holding midfielder, Lassana Diarra is keen to leave the Spanish giants, after receiving an offer from English football giants Manchester United.
Since the arrival of Sami Khedira, the Frenchman has become more of a fringe player at Madrid, and is finding first team opportunities very hard to come by. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/VfB-Stuttgart-c40879 this summer, and has cemented
his place in the starting line-up under manager Jose Mourinho.
These factors have now forced the former Chelsea man to look for other available options. Furthermore, Diarra has expressed his desire to leave the club this January, amidst reports that Manchester United have tabled an offer for the 25-year-old.
It has been rumoured that an offer of somewhere around €13 million will be enough to persuade Real Madrid to let go of the out of favour player.
Lassana Diarra had a slow start to his professional football career after numerous football clubs turned him down, since they thought that Diarra was too small and lightweight to survive in club football.
However, after initial rejections, Ligue 1 side Le Havre signed the youngster. There he proved his critics completely wrong after he gave some really impressive performances as a defensive midfielder. His excellent performances for club and at Under-21 level
for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899, earned him a move to Chelsea in 2005.
At that time, Chelsea had also bought Claude Makelele from Real Madrid and the young Diarra took in Makelele as his mentor. Through Makelele, Diarra learnt the art of being a defensive midfielder, and slowly became a part player in the Chelsea senior side.
However, he still found it hard to cement a regular place in the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Freddie-Ljungberg-c14143. That move didn’t really work out either, and after just five months with the Gunners, Diarra signed
for Portsmouth. At Portsmouth, Diarra became the fulcrum of the side but a year later, in 2008 he was signed by Real Madrid.
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