| ‘Real makes offer for Euro 2008 star Villa’ |
| DATA： 2008-08-27 |
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| Real Madrid’s Gabriel Heinze (L) fights for the ball with Valencia抯 David Villa during their Spanish Super Cup final second leg soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Saturday.SD-Agencies |
The amount that the club is willing to pay for the 26-year-old varies between 47 and 48 million euros, the Web sites of sports dailies Marca and AS reported.
The club is looking for a possible replacement for Brazilian striker Robinho who has said he wanted to join Chelsea.
Real’s German coach Bernd Schuster has insistently demanded that the club recruit a striker if Robinho leaves the Spanish champion as he has said he would like to.
Among the other strikers who have been linked to a move to Real are Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, Lyon’s Karim Benzema and Ajax’s Klas-Jan Huntelaar.
Real, which failed in its bid to lure Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United, has not been very active in the European summer transfer period, which ends at the end of the month and has the financial resources for a major deal.
Dutch international midfielder Rafael van der Vaart, who signed with Real for five years from German side Hamburg, has been the club’s only new signing for the upcoming season.
Real signed Argentine defender Ezequiel Garay from Racing Santander at the end of the season but under the terms of the deal the player will only join the club in the 2009-10 season.(SD-Agencies)