Perez: Silverware not essential this year
Reuters - Tuesday 10 November 2009, 17:58
MADRID - President Florentino Perez has
played down Real Madrid's trophy expectations this season,
saying the club are looking long term.
"Our dream is to build a spectacular team but it would not
be a failure if we didn't win a title," Perez told Spanish
television station Cuatro on Tuesday.
"We are at the start of a new project. We are giving it
stability. We aren't going to get nervous because it hasn't all
come together perfectly in the first year."
Perez's return in June for a second spell as president set
in motion a 250 million euro reconstruction
programme that brought in players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka
and Karim Benzema.
Expectations have soared in the local media, fired by the
possibility of Real making the Champions League final at the
Bernabeu in May and of winning a possible 10th European Cup in
front of their own fans.