Looking for today

Glamour trip so soon to slip
Easy come but oh how quick it goes
Ten foot tall but what to fall
Hard to open yet so easy to close
Front page news but so abused
You just want to hide yourself away
Over-paid, but soon you fade
Because you're only looking for today
Looking for today

Looking for Today, Black Sabbath

Today's news is the following: tomorrow there will be further news that in two days time ( so thats three from now) there will be even more news, this time in the concrete form of a press conference at the Ritz. It is at this press conference, when something will actually happen, i.e. Florentino will sit in front of the assembled media and tell the World all what he is going to do to save Real Madrid. So just to recapitulate, nothing has actually happened yet, nor is it going to until Thursday.

AS are already into the business of reporting that Florentino's plans for the club will be, one of which includes building a retractable roof over the Bernabéu. What, you mean construction magnate Florentino will hire his own company with money from the club that he will be presiding to build a roof whose only purpose will be to protect the fur on the madridista señoras' coats in winter? Good to see Mr. Pérez' intention is the selfless labour of returning the club to its rightful status as Best in the World.

The press are hyping up Thursday's press conference and they are doing so with good reason - it is the only thing that remains vaguely positive about Real Madrid this season. Everybody else has given up. The soon-to-be big-wigs have already started laying out their plans. Florentino speaks to his chums at Europa Press so that the world is up-to-speed with what he'll be doing the following day at 11.43 should anyone need to know; Zidane is publicly wooing Ribery; Valdano is virtually reading off his list of who'll be staying and who won't while commentating for La Sexta; Juande and Pedja, meanwhile, have simply given up the ghost.

Boluda had a little tete a tete (that should have a couple of funny looking accents in there but this keyboard is having none of it ) with Mijatovic and Juande earlier today. The team were a disgrace against Valencia! We can't have any more of it! This club has values and traditions that MUST be respected! Any more of that and you'll be out of a job! is presumably the gist of what Boluda said to the duo, but Boluda is surely under no false impression that the meeting will have achieved anything. If he thought it would, he really is a Boluda. 

Juande, of course, couldn't give a monkeys and has simply taken to telling everybody who'll listen that Real Madrid are substandard now that it's clear the team can't win anything and that he'll be leaving pronto. First they were worse than Liverpool and Barcelona, and now after the 3-0 to Valencia they are now worse that the mob at Mestalla. 

Pedja is no doubt planning his next incarnation in the football underworld, given that his contract - with one year remaining - will be cancelled when the new regime takes over. He'll probably go back to offloading substandard players to big clubs and take his disproportionately large slice of the cake. Technically he'll carry on doing the same job then...

As for Boluda, his 'presidency' is merely a sham. He, like Calderón, is to be dragged through the courts for electoral fraud. Even if he escapes punishment he will not be involved in the club come July. By then, Florentino and company (never more appropriately worded...) will be in charge at Real Madrid, with promises that tomorrow everything will be alright.