Party Pieces Of Arda
Well as you can see the last post was the Champions League Final preview (I was on a long holiday)and that frankly was a shock to me। Seeing Manchester United going down like that was shocking. I guess for a team like the Red Devils who are so used to having high performances for long periods of time-well something had to give way at some point.
Anyway with the Confederations Cup and the current Gold Cup and the mad transfers going on I think it is safe to say that the apppetite for football is coming back। I must say the Confederations Cup was really great and the performance of the US team was just amazing। I am not going to touch on the transfer of Michael Owen, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka or Benzema, they will be a lot of time for that in the coming season.
I would like to talk about one player though that many people might have missed out, his name is Arda Turan। A 22 year old Turkish international who plays for Galatasaray.
He can play in the centre of midfield and on either flank ( a boon for any club looking for a player who plays in multiple positions). He performed well in the European Championship in 2008, the recent Under-21 Euro and Newcastle United wanted to snap him before he played in the European Championship 2008. He was valued at £9million but this valuation has now gone up to £13million . Manchester United and Liverpool were said to be in the hunt for him, but strangely he has dropped out of the radar now.
He can play in the centre of midfield and on either flank ( a boon for any club looking for a player who plays in multiple positions). He performed well in the European Championship in 2008, the recent Under-21 Euro and Newcastle United wanted to snap him before he played in the European Championship 2008. He was valued at £9million but this valuation has now gone up to £13million . Manchester United and Liverpool were said to be in the hunt for him, but strangely he has dropped out of the radar now.
He would make a good replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo and from a far it does look like Cristiano is moving with the ball, especially the chops and sudden turns on the ball. Even if United are interested (I think not, at least at the moment) he just might be more inclined to move to Liverpool if the Kops are interested. He would not want to have the burden of filling Ronaldo's shoes and he just might think that he could become the new icon of Anfield with the "small" matter of removing a certain Torres and Gerrard! Besides Liverpool lack width and this seems to be a niggling problem for Rafa since he took over. The question now is...in this super inflated transfer market he would seem a bargain so why on earth is he still plying his trade in Turkey?
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