Real Madrid and its squad last season (Part 2)
As soon as Jose Mourinho became in charge of the Madrid based club, he decided to change a few things round. He sold off a few players and acquired the services of a few as well.
In his very first season, Mourinho decided to buy the Chelsea centre back http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ricardo-Carvalho-c30973. Carvalho was desperately needed in the Real Madrid first team as they were not at their best in the centre back position.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-c29670 is a player who commits himself just too early while defending and Raul Albiol is not the best centre back on the field. Therefore, Jose Mourinho decided to add some experience at the back and he signed the Chelsea star Ricardo Carvalho.
Carvalho was with Mourinho back in Porto and they were also together when Jose Mourinho joined http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786. Mourinho simply knew how to make Carvalho work and he eventually did turn out to be an amazing signing.
What really helped Mourinho in his shopping spree was the FIFA World Cup 2010 took take place in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757 during the summer break.
The Portuguese coach scouted a few players and decided to lure them into his team. The German sensation Mesut Ozil, who played for Werder Bremen back then, was signed by Jose Mourinho.
Another player who joined Madrid that season was the Argentinean youngster Angel Di Maria. Di Maria was in Benfica back then and Mourinho simply knew how brilliant a player he was.
The Portuguese coach decided to sign both the young players and they really aided in building the team.
While Mourinho decided to buy these two players, he also decided to let go of the club captain http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Raul-c30652 Gonzalez who joined the German side Schalke 04. Mourinho also decided to let go of Rafael Van der Vaart who joined the Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur
on the last day of the transfer window.
Another player who joined Madrid that season was the German centre midfielder http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bastian-Schweinsteiger-c7374 in the German team. Jose Mourinho decided to buy Khedira who would provide good cover for Lassana Diarra,
as the Frenchman had not been performing at his best.
With these three players making way in the Santiago Bernabeu, the Real Madrid midfield only bolstered. They really helped the team as Ozil and Khedira were used to playing together while Di Maria did not take much time to adapt to Madrid’s style of play.
Ozil managed to become a replacement for the injured http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350 and Gonzalo Higuain were the two options available
in front.
Jose Mourinho had still to go through a lot of problems in the attack. Despite the fact that Higuain and Karim Benzema were available up front, they were not scoring enough goals for the Spanish Giants; in fact, it was the Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo
who often found the back of the net for Los Blancos.
While Mourinho was going through such crises, he decided to lure Emanuel Adebayor on loan from Manchester City. However, even with the inclusion of the Manchester City drop-out, the strikers were not scoring enough goals – definitely nothing equivalent to
Cristiano Ronaldo, who was simply in a brilliant goal scoring form.
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