http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Real-c30728 Madrid close to signing defender Raphael Varane from Lens – La Liga news
Real Madrid are only inches away from completing a successful swoop of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/RC-Lens-c40322 defensive midfielder, Raphael Varane.
The Spanish club are being tipped as favourites to land the highly gifted midfielder at Santiago Bernabeu this summer after Manchester United’s £8.9 million transfer bid was rejected earlier by the French outfit.
Los Blancos have thwarted competition from the likes of the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429, Manchester United and the French outfit, Paris Saint-Germain, who were desperately looking to get Varane’s signature for the 2011/12 season.
Being on the radar of many top clubs across Europe for quite some time now, Varane has been strongly linked with Real Madrid and could be on his way out this summer transfer season. Jose Mourinho’s side are expected to pay £9 million to lure the striker
away from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899.
Should the transfer go through, Real Madrid would be thanking their French legend, Zinedine Zidane, who reportedly played an influential role for the transfer to materialise.
Lens president, Gervais Martel, has fuelled the transfer rumours, claiming that transfer talks are in progress with Manchester United and a deal could be closed in a day or two.
“It's not done officially with Real Madrid but talks are on track and hopefully it [the transfer] will happen today. Madrid directors were very good to us, they have been speaking with the player. There is nothing that could go wrong. Paris St Germain have
made me an offer, that is probably the worst kept secret around” Martel added.
Having featured for Lens on 24 occasions in the now-concluded season, the centre-back is expected to pen down a five-year contract with the Spanish giants.
Real Madrid seem to be pressing in the right direction, having strengthened their squad by recruiting Hamit Altıntop and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nuri-Sahin-c28251 from Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund respectively. Varane’s inclusion into Madrid ranks could prove costly for the out-of-favour
Madrid defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ezequiel-Garay-c13071, having only played nine games in the last season.
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