Nuri should be available in the summer ...

[LeTallecWiz]

The 24-year-old Turkey international is spending the season at Anfield and many expected him to return to the Bernabeu to win a place in the team there, but the coach has other ideas.

Despite only joining Madrid in 2011 from Borussia Dortmund, Mourinho already has plans to make his club money by ensuring that they sell Sahin for a high price, possibly next summer.

"Sahin belongs to Real Madrid and is on loan at Liverpool," Mourinho told France Football.
"That costs us nothing because Liverpool are paying for everything.

"He is young and playing in a league that will help him grow. We want to sell him one day and he will go for a very good price. We made no mistakes."

Mourinho then launched another attack on old foe Jorge Valdano, claiming that the former Real Madrid director had no idea who he was signing while at the club.

"If we are going to do some analysis then the president and the director general will confirm it and agree," the Portuguese continued.

"Nobody here knew who Khedira was. The person charged, hypothetically, with this [Valdano] did not know who Khedira was. I can say that for sure.

"They did not know that Khedira was in the last year of his contract and could have joined us very cheaply.

"Neither was it known that Ozil had problems with Werder Bremen. We paid €15million."

When Mourinho took over at Madrid he wanted Valdano to be ousted and won that battle early on in order to be given unprecedented control over the ins and outs of his squad.

One player that Mourinho did flop on was Turkish star Hamit Altintop, but he is still proud of a deal that saw the player arrive for free and move on for €3.5million after a year and four appearances to Galatasaray.

"Then there is Altintop. Was a failure in sporting terms but he was an economic success. We signed him for nothing and he came here with an injury. That is not my fault," he added.

"I do not do the medical exams, but he was then sold for a good fee."

Source: Footy365.com

 

[gkmacca]

Selling him one day. For a high price.

 

[Y1]

That Jose do know how to blame others and deflect blame.

 

[RedZeppelin III]

how was sahin on saturday ?

at the moment i expect he'll be the one to make way for lucas if he can get fit

 

[Sunny]

how was Şahin on saturday ?

at the moment i expect he'll be the one to make way for lucas if he can get fit

I didn't think he was great first half but I did think he showed a few clever passes and touches. Strangely, I thought he was really growing into the game just before he was replaced with Shelvey. I actually thought we declined in midfield after that.

 

[dmishra]

I don't think Sahin's going to be very effective in this 4-3-3 set up, as one of the roving midfielders. He's an intelligent footballer, and he does make good runs into the box, but that's really not his game. He's much more of a Xavi type in that he likes to sit and create. When Lucas comes back, I'd like to see him and Sahin as the midfield two, with Allen moved higher up. That'll be a formation where you'll see the best of all three of them IMO.

 

[juniormember]

Don't know about that. The few times Allen has gotten forward he hasn't looked great. Would much prefer he sat back with Lucas and kept things ticking while Sahin roams free behind the forwards. He looks far more comfortable in the final third than Allen does.
Haven't seen enough of Allen up the field to make a proper judgement but right now it's Sahin > Allen for me further up the pitch. Likewise Sahin seems to look uncomfortable at the minute when forced into the defensive position.

 

[doctor_mac]

Sahin's stats from Dortmund suggest someone who likes to break forward and take a few risks rather than someone anchored in the holding position. Here he is compared to attacking midfielders where he compares well. Lucas and co wouldn't feature in this sort of analysis, because they're doing something very different.

http://www.eplindex.com/18043/nuri-sahin-stats-compared-yaya-modric-arteta-liverpool.html

 

[Insignificance]

I think Sahin was better than both Allen and gerrard saturday, but was still the one making way for Shelvey. He was not happy about it, and he shouldn't be.

We need midfielders that try to attack the box. Allen and Gerrard has been inside the box a combination of 1 time this season (it feels like at least), and Shelvey and Sahin has much more sting in their runs.