The Capital club added two players to their ranks and let go off as many as eight players in the 2012 transfer window, coming out with a healthy positive balance.
Real Madrid have followed their La Liga triumph in 2011/12 season with the Spanish Super Cup at the expense of traditional rivals. Jose Mourinho completed the set of trophies without altering his squad in the 2012 summer transfer window.
The Special One has continued to fine tune his roster at the Santiago Bernabeu, preferring to allow fringe players exiting the ground in favour of seasoned campaigners and hoping that Castilla players can rise to the occasion when given the chance.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-Essien-c25294 stand at the only additions to the first team. The Croatian finalised his transfer from Tottenham after arduous negotiations with the North London outfit. It took 35 million Euros plus performance based incentives offer to
complete the deal.
While the signing of Modric has been earmarked since the closing ceremony of Euro 2012, the Ghanaian midfield destroyer came to reinforce the firs team ranks. He came in to fill the void left by the departure of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Esteban-Granero-c12919 and Lassana Diarra.
Granero was allowed to depart so that he can continue his footballing journey, while Diarra hurried out of the Bernabeu to fulfil his wishes of two summers.
All in all, the transfer market saw Real Madrid get favourable returns on their investments. The only major expenditure Los Blancos made was the 30 million Euros they paid for Modric, but they got more than they spent with the departures of as many as eight
players.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 in an 11 million Euros deal.
Real Madrid youth academy graduates, Esteban Granero(8 million Euros), Joselu (6 million Euros) and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Daniel-c9879 Carvajal (5 million Euros) were all transferred for a combined fee of 19 million Euros.
With the club getting precious finances with the loan arrangements of Lassana Diarra and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nuri-Sahin-c28251, and paying meagre monies to get Michael Essien, Real Madrid oversaw the transfer window with to boast off.
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