Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini was left "very embarrassed" after seeing the most expensive team in world football lose 4-0 to a third tier village side Alcorcon in the Spanish King's Cup. Real fielded a strong team but were 3-0 down to the Segunda Division B club by half-time in the round of 32 first leg.

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Real Madrid manager Manuel Pellegrini is clinging to his job after one of the most humiliating defeats in the club's history. Real were beaten 4-0 in the Spanish Cup by a third division side.

Having spent more money in one pre-season than any club in history, Real were expected to hammer minnows Alcorcon in the first leg of the fourth round of the cup.

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The Spanish Copa del Rey began its fourth round on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 with four matches. One of them was Real Madrid traveling to face Alcercon who plays in the Segunda or 2nd tier of Spain. Madrid were the favorites heading into the match and started most of their top stars. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

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Alcorcón, ciudad madrileña conocida internacionalmente por humillar al Real Madrid galáctico en la ida de los dieciseisavos de final de la Copa de Su Majestad el Rey. Nada más y nada menos que 4-0, si, han leído bien mis queridos lectores... ¡¡4-0!! Un Segunda B, con B de Borja, que mojó por partida doble, Arbeloa (él no quería) y Ernesto (ten cuidado con Ernesto) fulminaron a los blancos que parece que no dan pie con títere, y eso que Dudek fue su mejor hombre. Click to continue reading...

Much to the delight of Liverpool fans, Daniel Agger, Alberto Aquilani and Fabio Aurelio will all be ready to start soon, and while we all know what positions Agger and Aquilani will play upon their return, Aurelio's position and influence on the team is more of a mystery. New Liverpool-Kop writer Bikram Rana takes a look at how the infludential Brazilian will fit into the team. Click to continue reading...

It's getting difficult to find new ways to praise Fernando Torres. See here and here, among other sycophancy. The goals per game, the hat-tricks, the fact he can score any kind of goal, that he's only 25; I can go on and on. But there's little else to be written on how potent he is. So I got to thinking about the "supporting cast. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez says his side are playing the same system as last season but are scoring more goals.
Liverpool have seen plenty of goals go in at either end of the field as they have racked up 15 Premier League goals and conceded nine in just six games.
Benitez's side have battled to two 3-2 away wins against Bolton and West Ham respectively, sparking criticism of their defensive abilities. Click to continue reading...

("How poorly Madrid are defending.")

Espanyol 0-3 Real Madrid
0-1 Granero, 39'
0-2 Guti, 77'
0-3 Ronaldo, 90'

This was a constant refrain from the Spanish language announcers and the theme of most of the match, as the Merengues struggled to hold their nerve at the back, occasionally looking as porous as SpongeBob Square Pants in defense.

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Alvaro Arbeloa has questioned his former club Liverpool's title credentials after selling Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid this summer.
Arbeloa made the switch from Anfield to the Bernabeu in July, with Alonso following the same path just a week later for a fee believed to be in the region of £28million. Click to continue reading...

Nothing left in the kitty!

"It is correct we had some young players on the bench the other night, but Fabio Aurelio is a senior player who is injured, Agger is injured and we have Aquilani to come back.

"That is three players and if we put them on the bench people will say we have a good squad.

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Together for the moment

The much-anticipated return of La Liga began with a scintillating match between the new galácticos of Real Madrid and the pesky Deportivo La Coruña, who always gives Madrid a run for their money, literally.� Because of the continued suspension of Pepe and the tendinitis suffered by Sergio Ramos, the Real Madrid defense was not at full strength, and Ezequiel Garay and Álvaro Arbeloa started in their positions respectively.

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Real Madrid started the new La Liga season with a victory, but Manuel Pellegrini's expensively assembled side were made to sweat at the Santiago Bernabéu before sealing a 3-2 triumph over RC Deportivo La Coruña on the first day of the new Liga campaign.

Raúl strike
New signings Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso, Raúl Albiol and Álvaro Arbeloa all started for the Merengues, but it was an old-boy who had the fans on their feet first, Raúl González opening the scoring on 26 minutes after a Benzema shot had bounced back off the post.

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Three games, two defeats and six points adrift of the Premier League's pace-setters are hardly the criteria Liverpool would have wished for at the start of the season they were supposed to end their 20-year wait for the title.
Yossi Benayoun has insisted that Rafael Benítez's players still think they "can win the title", the Israeli adamant that "we believe we are strong enough, even if maybe we cannot lose any more games". Click to continue reading...

REAL MADRID used its traditional new season showcase, the "SantiagoBernabeu Trophy" match, in front of its home crowd & fans topresent some of their new signings (Xabi Alonso, Arbeloa, Garay &Granedo), farewell 10 year veteran defender MICHEL SALGADO (seebelow video) & defeat Norwegian team ROSENBERG 4-0. Click to continue reading...

Well, the Galácticos 2.0 era is underway.
Real Madrid were able to overshadow the treble-winning rivals off the pitch by spending unheard of amounts of money. Just to give some perspective, the money that they spent on Kaká, Ronaldo, Benzema, Albiol and the rest of their transactions was the equivalent of the payroll of the New York Yankees. Click to continue reading...

According to reports, Liverpool FC allegedly has only £1.5m to spend for the remainder of the current transfer window. Predictably, Tom Hicks and George Gillett are being demonised over this issue and Rafa Benitez is being painted as the blameless victim whose hands are tied due to lack of funds. Poor Rafa, right? Click to continue reading...

It looks like Ayala and Carragher may well be the centre back pairing for the Stoke game!

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Liverpool have been left sweating on the fitness of Martin Skrtel as they face up to a fresh injury crisis.

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Are we being sold down the river by these two?

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Rafa Benitez has been left devastated after being told he has just £1.5million to spend by his club's American owners.

The Liverpool manager has struggled against budget constraints all summer because of the financial crisis at Anfield, and revealed a week ago he was in talks to try and extend his kitty.

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Back to the drawing board!

Why is it that too many of our players instinctively opt for a backwards ball? That was what I found myself repeating to myself as the game wore on and our performance got progressively worse. Secondly can anyone tell me why Yossi Benayoun didn't start the game?

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Sunday, 16th August 2009
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Liverpool will be hoping to build on their Premier League finish last season and will be desperate to get off to a good start against a strong Tottenham Hotspur side.

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Tottenham v Liverpool Live Streaming & Match Preview
Premier League Spurs vs Liverpool Live Online Click Here
Sunday, 16th August 2009
Kick Off : 16:00 GMT
Venue : White Hart Lane, London

Liverpool will be hoping to build on their Premier League finish last season and will be desperate to get off to a good start against a strong Tottenham Hotspur side.

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Having come so close last season, we all desperately hope this is the year when Liverpool finally clinch the Premier League title.
It's been a mixed summer with a couple of big signings but a few key players moving on.
We've lost Alvaro Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso but gained Glen Johnson and Alberto Aquilani so I would say the squad is about as strong as the one we had last season. Click to continue reading...

The summer transfer period is almost over. Rafa brought in Johnson and of course Aquilani to strengthen the team after Hyypia, Arbeloa and Alonso, among others, left us.

The question that most fans are asking is whether there will be more signings before the start of the season this weekend.

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Hace ya un tiempo que quería escribiros esta entrada para darle otro prisma al tan manido tema de las canteras que en estas semanas esta enfrentando, una vez más, al Real Madrid y al Barça (espero no aburriros con la dualidad de siempre, pero os prometo que es interesante) porque creo que no se están diciendo todas las verdades. Click to continue reading...

This is part two of the 09/10 season preview - find part one of the 09/10 premier league season here.

Liverpool

After pushing Manchester United all the way, Liverpool ultimately finished second best in the race for the title last season. This season, as we seem to say every season, "could be Liverpool's year", and Rafa Benitez's side will be desperate to take the honours after coming so close last time around.

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After weeks of speculation, rumours and gossip Xabi Alonso finally completed his £30m move to Real Madrid to join the likes of Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, Arbeloa and Albiol as part of Galacticos II. This post is not going to criticize Florentino Pérez and his spending for this author believes that Madrid can spend money on [. Click to continue reading...

After weeks of speculation, rumours and gossip Xabi Alonso finally completed his £30m move to Real Madrid to join the likes of Ronaldo, Kaka, Benzema, Arbeloa and Albiol as part of Galacticos II. This post is not going to criticize Florentino Pérez and his spending for this author believes that Madrid can spend money on [. Click to continue reading...

Listen up Rafa!

With some of the Alonso cash still burning a hole in Rafa's pocket and some cash from Leto and Arbeloa sales on the table, perhaps Messrs Hicks and Gillett can dig into their pockets to cover these signings, they could well lead the club to a sustained title push and perhaps end the painful wait for a Premier League title!

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To the fans' disappointment, Xabi Alonso is leaving Liverpool and joining Real Madrid. The latest galacticos is caught on video, doing a public Real medical procedure. The Spanish midfielder is Real Madrid's newest £30m acquisition. Florentino Pérez amazing spending spree continues.-around £220m spent to date. Click to continue reading...

Alonso joins Real.

The exodus of players out of England continued today with Xabi Alonso completing the move to Real Madrid. Many people will not realize the hole that is left with his absence at Anfield.

So much focus is on Torres and Gerrard which left Alonso lots of space to utilize his considerable skills.

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Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has completed his £30m transfer to big-spending Real Madrid from Liverpool after passing a medical on Wednesday.
The Reds revealed on Tuesday a deal had been struck but added the terms would remain confidential.
Alonso, 27, joined Liverpool from Real Sociedad in August 2004 for £10. Click to continue reading...

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Liverpool never planned on selling Xabi Alonso, but in the end the Reds couldn't fight off Real Madrid.

One of the lengthier transfer sagas of the summer concluded on Tuesday with Liverpool agreeing to sell the Spanish international to Real Madrid for £30 million ($50.76 million).

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Liverpool never planned on selling Xabi Alonso, but in the end the Reds couldn't fight off Real Madrid.

One of the lengthier transfer sagas of the summer concluded on Tuesday with Liverpool agreeing to sell the Spanish international to Real Madrid for £30 million ($50.76 million).

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Well, subject to a medical of course (of course!), Alonso's finally been sold to Real Madrid. In other earth-shattering news, the sky's still blue.
The sum of the text on the official website, in sum, is thus:

Liverpool Football Club this evening confirmed they had reached agreement for the sale of Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid, subject only to a medical.

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After 10 years of loyal service REAL MADRID has officiallycommunicated to veteran defender MICHEL SALGADO that his cycleat the Club has come to an end. Real Madrid will compensate theplayer with the last year of his contract which allows Salgado to befree & negotiate with which ever Club he desires. Their professionalrelationship has come to an abrupt end. Click to continue reading...