Monday 4 August 2008

Case closed: Van der Vaart

Hamburg attacker and Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart (25) will not play for Barcelona as of next season, like had been rumoured over the last months (read more here).

German Bundesliga club Hamburg SV has today officially announced the transfer of Van der Vaart to Real Madrid.

The Spanish club is believed to pay 15 (13+2) million euro° for the Dutch player, who will sign a five-year contract with Madrid.

Read more:
Van der Vaart to lift up midfield scoring
Case closed: Garay
Case closed: Mancini





16 comments:

pep said...

15 million euro =

24 million us dollar
12 million british pound

Anonymous said...

Of course he will not play we have to spend the money on 4 DM.

Shiiiit he is great player i am mad he signed for Madrid, as we could have signed him/

Anonymous said...

No big loss, he'll have some good moments (like Sneijder) but you won't notice him most of the games (like Sneijder). I'm curious on which position he will play though...

Anonymous said...

Van der Vaart cannot fit in the current formation of the team... He can't play as a left winger and in the middle there are too many players so we could't buy him unless of course for the bench... Its a pity that such a nice player will play for such a shitty team....Forza Barca

Anonymous said...

I prefer Hleb 1000 times over him. He'll disappoint with Madrid. He's no Champions League winning material.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.. we don't need him, we have too much in the midfield, and much more better than him coming up.

Anonymous said...

Overrated player. Nothing to sulk about. His dream was to play for Barcelona. I guess he'll never fulfil his dream. :P

Anonymous said...

His grandfather is a culé. The disinherit procedure is underway...

cojonudo said...

I'm starting to doubt that the pic above is real. It looks like RVN was photoshopped into the picture. He looks so out of place....

Anyways, the thing I will lament most about missing out on Rafa is not getting to see his wife upclose. Truly a great loss. Then again she'll probably fit in nicely with the "wine and cheese" crowd over at Madrid.

Jnice said...

VDV is slow and he's not even that nice. I could care less about us not having him. Hleb is definitely more creative but scores less goals.

memo said...

Im sure no one cares. No big loss

pep said...

They all seem photoshopped actually... But he did talk with his new Dutch team-mates at the Emirates last weekend.

Barca nerd-fan said...

He's a really good player, even if barca Can't sign him, I would never want him to go Madrid.

Anonymous said...

why is he posing with a valencia shirt???

pep said...

That was last year. Thought it was a nice moment to bring that one out again...

Anonymous said...

van der vaart u dick

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