According to Spanish sports daily Marca, Real Madrid’s transfer market movements are not completely over, for the blancos are still trying their utmost to land Valencia star David Villa right at the close of the window. However, they’re destined to fail…by Ewan Macdonald

Valencia are in talks with David Villa over an improved contract, sporting vice president Fernando Gomez has revealed.

Tottenham Hotspur are looking to prepare a mega-bid for Valencia hit-man David Villa according to reports in Spain.by Salvatore Landolina

Contrary to earlier reports that Valencia valued their star David Villa at €40 million, the Daily Mail reports that he could leave the club for as little as £17 million…

The Spanish international is being watched by Real Madrid, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, with Arsenal - a club he singled out for praise last month - also outside contenders for his signature.

Despite winning the Copa del Rey this season, Valencia are in complete disarray following their group stage elimination from the Champions League and near-relegation in La Liga and will have to sell at least one of their big name stars in order to stay afloat and indeed rebuild for the future.

Valencia have slapped a €40million price tag on the head of striker David Villa, but are content to listen to offers for the 26 year old.

It is generally assumed that at least one of Valencia’s ‘big name’ players will be sold off over the summer in order to ease their financial difficulties and it seems as if that player could be Villa.

They have not officially transfer-listed the striker, but Valencia are ready to listen to offers, although their €40million request may be a little unrealistic at this point in time.

Striker David Villa went a long
way to playing himself into the starting line-up for Spain’s
Euro 2008 opener against Russia after a lively goal-scoring
performance in his side’s 2-1 victory over Peru on Saturday.

Luis Aragones used Spain’s last training session before the friendly against Peru in order to experiment as they prepare for Euro 2008.

Aragones has been using these training sessions to see which starting XI works best before heading off to Austria and Switzerland next week.

The tactician tested out a new 4-5-1 set up which can easily be adapted to a 4-3-3. The starting XI for the forty five minute game were Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Puyol, Marchena, Capdevila; Xabi Alonso, Xavi; Iniesta, Silva; Villa and Torres.

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A few days ago REAL MADRID made a 25M€ offer to VALENCIA
CF for its Spanish International forward DAVID VILLA & they
added Julio Baptista to that fee. Valencia consider that their forward
has a…

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Valencia’s star striker David Villa says he will be happy to remain at the Mestalla next season, despite talk of a big-money exit from the club.

The 26-year-old Spain international has been li…