Neither has Illasomethingsomething and Herrara is already thrice the player he ever will be.

Lets be honest, you didn't know Herrera (what a shame, you couldn't even spell his name ) before the deadline day.

This post was edited by Zaop on Sep 4 2013 01:48pm

I knew him from the EL tie, he's one of the stand out players alongside Martinez, Muniain and De Marcos.

Yeah, I don't really understand why Arteta was never called. But, I mean, other play makers like Thiago, Beñat or Koke have been called, but Ander wasn't. Del Bosque likes giving a cap or two to youngsters so they get to know how la Roja works, in case they eventually become good enough to be called on a regular basis. Arteta is unfortuately too old; I doubt Del Bosque will ever call him (which is sad and unfair imo).



Well, Illarra was unknown 2 years ago. He has progressed a lot during these last 2 years, just like many other of la Real's players. In 2010 that team promoted to primera, the following year they avoided relegation in the last game, now they are playing the CL with almost the same players (8 of the players that played in Lyon were there in Segunda).

Ander Herrera on the other hand has been considered a promising talent for years. Maybe he was unknown outside of Spain, but he was always highly rated here. Athletic even paid 9M€ for him 3 years ago.

I can see Moyes coming back in January for Herrera.
Why Bilbao won't budge, they should bite United's hand off and drive him to Carrington by themselves if United offer £30m again.

Can see this being the truth - Moyes has won nothing in his carrer so far bar the Community Shield and the football is pretty turgid - no clear cut chances created in the last two games.

they don't need the money though since they can only buy Basque players

Clearly they do if everyone wants to leave them as they can win more and get paid more in bigger clubs.
Besides with extra money they could've improved their academy etc

Well they already made 40M€ when they sold Javi Martínez, that should be enough to improve their academy and training facilities (which are already top level).

Don't get me wrong, if I were them I'd be glad to see Ander leave for 30M€, but I can understand that making money out of transfers isn't a priority for them. I mean, look at what they did with Llorente, they prefered to let him rot for his last year of contract, in order to prevent other players from wanting to leave them, than selling him for 30M€.

true ^^
they really dont need to sell players

only club that can afford actions like that
everyone else would have sold llorente for the money