Sahin Has The Devil's Own Luck - Kaka Will NOT Play Against Real Oviedo Tonight

[jenny_jenkins]

Sahin Has The Devil's Own Luck - Kaka Will NOT Play Against Real Oviedo Tonight
Stick this post under transfer rumours, I suppose.

Kaka, who was on the team sheet for a few minutes this morning, has been removed - without explanation - a few hours after meeting with Mourinho and his father (who is also his agent).

Why is this interesting? Sahin, who

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[dinosaur]

Well, it makes sense. For the past couple of weeks rumors have been that Kaka needs to be sold in order to finance the Modric transfer if Levy wasn't interested in a cash+player deal.

Also Villas-Boas doesn't seem too keen on Sahin according to AS: "It's funny, with the great season he did in the Bundesliga before signing for Madrid ..." Then makes a point of the speed of English football and that name seems to be ruled out.

[jenny_jenkins]

Sahin is not a speedy player, that was always true even when he was fit. He was surrounded by fast, pressing players, but was the slowest of the bunch.

[taperkat]

I wish we'd sell Nuri. And a few other fan favorites that don't impress me now and didn't impress me before we bought them. (wooops)

I hope we don't sell Kaká. Or if we do he goes to a team I like. I suspect he's going to head back to Brasil if he goes anywhere, though.

[jenny_jenkins]

We could sell Sahin and Kaka and I wouldn't blink. Sahin has not proven adaptable. He's in practice every day so the "he didn't have a preseason" excuse is beginning to irritate. I have high standards - take Sami Khedira. Sami Khedira can return from injury and look like he never left.

I had huge expectations when he came and was very enthusiastic but he hasn't met them. Kaka is the same only on a much bigger scale because of the cost. Sahin, at least, was/remains cheap and takes in about 1/3 of Kaka's wage. He'd have to play for us for 26 years to cost what Kaka did in 3. So yeah - he can have a season.

Also - I can't stand his WAG. A minor quibble, but there it is. A check of her Twitter account should come with a diabetic shock warning. I'm a collapsed Catholic who hates children and doesn't believe in perfect families.

Variation of opinion is important. Who are your others?

[taperkat]

Carvalho, Granero, Arbeloa, Albiol, Varane, Altintop (who's gone, i believe), Lass (who is gone i believe), Pepe.

Yes, I know some of them play often, but I just don't like them. Pepe is a cancer with his horrible attitude and temper and unprofessionalism shown last year, and I'm a Portugal NT fan and I still can't barely watch him.

[jenny_jenkins]

I think most of those are personally popular, if you know what I mean.

The only one I strongly disagree with is Varane. I love watching that child tackle. It's like a Per Mertesacker (Mr Clean) but with actual talent - scary, watching what Mertesacker could have been if God had given him a little (okay - I'm being cruel, and I defend Mertesacker usually for his positioning - but you know what I mean!)

I personally love Carvalho (who was good, in my opinion, until his injury) and Albiol is a lovely guy - but my God. Just seeing him in the lineup gives me nerves. Pepe has so many moments you never know what to expect either.

Arbeloa is the opposite - so mediocre you always know what to expect - complete predictability. Ditto Granero for the predictably "good" performance. And I'll go further - he's not a hipster either. Learning to read and growing a beard is not sufficient qualification. He's a clean-living millionaire with a cellphone. Having a cellphone is like waving the white flag.

[mapmakerscolors]

To be fair, Kaka still earns RM a lot of money from the bench via shirt sales and image fees. But it's in his own best interest to leave if he wants to spend the last few years of his career actually playing. :(

[jenny_jenkins]

He has to go if he has any self respect.

[rikayla]

ikr. i'm 50/50 on him leaving.

[sparksfly7]

maybe I'm just a selfless bish but I DON'T WANT KAKA TO LEAVE ;______;

thinking about the club (he costs them so much money and he just isn't putting in the performances that justify his price tag) and him (he's never going to be anything more than a bench-warmer in Madrid and it's better for him to go somewhere to actually play. he's 30 already), it's better for everyone if he leaves but I DON'T WANT HIM TO LEAVE :'((((((((

think about Cris, Madrid!

[jenny_jenkins]

Selfishness is one of the charms of being a fan! Revel in it!

[singahala]

your comment is like, right what i would have written! it's not even real.

every time i think and/or hear about these rumours of him leaving, i'm like NO NO NO. then i think about it for real and it makes sense, but i still wish he would stay - i feel like he hasn't even gotten a chance yet!

(haha my english is so bad and i'm new here, sorry)

[sparksfly7]

i feel like he hasn't even gotten a chance yet! ikr :( but he's had 3 seasons here. to be fair, it's not that he hasn't been given one, it's that he's never been able to take it.

(welcome! :D and your english isn't bad at all, what are you talking about ^^)

[sweetubi]

I don't buy that gastroenteritis reason, that happened last season too, for me it just another 'coach decision' thing.

I don't buy the lack of pre- season too, you have 6 month at least in the end of last season after coming back from injury.

beside if i recall correctly, ozil didn't have one. It just Mourinho protecting Sahin from something, whatever that is, which only he knows.

Seriously Nuri what is not happening for this guy?

[staystranger]

Ugh, I agree with all of this. That convenient "stomach bug" card was played a couple times last season, wasn't it? Either the kid has no immune system or Mou is hiding him on purpose. Is it to sell him? Cos I was seriously hoping Nuri would start the pre-season guns blazing and reward all this generous patience we've been lavishing upon him for a year now.

[sashatwen]

I'm starting to wonder if it's some kind of code for "the painkillers aren't working anymore".

Seriously.

[jenny_jenkins]

She lives! She lives!

That is my favourite icon. It's so useful. I'm thinking of making one that is similar.