[Danny47]

Clud Atletico de Madrid

Established: 1903

La Liga Titles: 9 (1939-40, 1940-41, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1965-66, 1969-70, 1972-73, 1976-77, 1995-96)

Copa del Rey Titles: 9 (1960, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1976, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1996)

Position in La Liga 2006/2007: 7th

[Danny47]

Estadio Vicente Calderon



El Nuevo Equipaje

[Mexican_Texan]

Don't like that shade of blue...last year's was better.

[Danny47]

Originally Posted by Mexican_Texan

Don't like that shade of blue...last year's was better.

Its the same shade bro, the pic is just really really bright.Ill look for a better one.

Edit:

[Mexican_Texan]

Cool, that looks much better

[Danny47]

Marca are reporting that Atletico have made a new bid for Quaresma. This time, Atleti have offered the 25 million euros that Porto were asking for.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/f...o/1016593.html

They also reported on Friday that Villarreal and Atleti have already begun negotiacitons to bring Riquelme to the Calderon for the upcoming season.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/f...o/1016143.html

I can see one of these happening but I can't see both of these happeneing, finnancialy and logically. The midfield would have a lot of depth but players(star players) might start to complain about a lack of playing time. We would have Maxi, Petrov, Cleber, Luis Garcia, Raul Garcia, Maniche, Costinha and Jurado. Throw in both Riquelme and Quaresma and you have 10 players for 4 or 5 positons depending on what formaton we play.However a couple of those players have experience at the Forward position (Maxi, L. Garcia) so we could find other ways to accomodate them.

[Mexican_Texan]

I don't want Jurado or Costinha. Sell them. Garcia is definitely a 2nd half player, a spark off the bench. Everyone else can battle it out for the starting spots. And we still have to figure out who we'll pair up with Aguero up front.

[Diego Maradona]

with Fernando Torres, out, I take it sergio Aguero will be the number 1 striker, considering he won the golden boot AND golden ball in the U-20 fifa championship

[dannytoone]

Its all over the Portuguese press that everything is finalized for the Simao transfer...its a done deal

[Danny47]

Im suprised by how much we payed for Simao. 20 million plus two players (most likely Costinha and Ze Castro). Man, I'm a little dissapointed that the Board didn't look into selling both Costinha and Ze Castro and using that income to finance Quarema's transfer. I'm sure they could have at least gotten 5 million for both of them,no? Also, it looks like Petrov is on his way out, so thats another transfer fee that could have been used to land Quaresma.

I don't know much about Simao so I can't really pass judgement on him, but I've heard good things. However, Quaresma has such a bright future and it would have been truly exciting to see him with Atleti next year.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/f...o/1020803.html