Madrid will apparently be signing, Silva, Villa, and god knows who else, this is going to be a long summer in Europe...
I don't think they'll get Silva. Apparently yesterday our new president declared Silva untransferable, so I s'pose we've decided to cash in on the older Villa, since Madrid is in the mood for spending ludicrous amounts of money so we can really ease our financial strain just on his departure. Then we'll hope Silva blossoms into the player that has had so many clubs chasing him. We'll need a replacement forward though, we only have Morientes as a back-up really, oh and I think we still own Zigic, but both those players are balls. Hope we get Negredo, maybe as part of the Villa transfer.
I'm still gonna be very sad to see Villa go, I've been a fan of his since way back when he was still at Zaragoza, so while I accepted his departure was likely I would have preferred him to go to a club I didn't consider scum, so basically anyone but Real Madrid, or Man Utd.
I don't know whether this is going to utterly dash the hopes of any of the lesser weights of La Liga of competing for the title in the short term. I recall how we were buying the likes of Baraja, Albelda and Vicente, the cream of Spanish talent, while Madrid last had its eyes turned to the stars, and we went on to win two titles with such players. The only difference then was that Barca was in disarray but it shows sensible spending can still get you places while insane amounts of money are being thrown around.
