Real Murcia [Segunda]

[Pat Murphy]

City/Province: Murcia, Murcia
Stadium: Estadio Nueva Condomina
Capacity: 33.045
Club Founded: 1908
Manager: Lucas Alcaraz
Nickname: Los Pimentoneros (The "paprika-men")

[Pat Murphy]

Baiano And Curro Torres Swell Murcia Numbers

Real Murcia have broken their transfer record after agreeing a €5m to sign Fernando Baiano from Celta Vigo and snapped up Curro Torres on loan from Valencia.

Coach Lucas Alcaraz has been after a new striker all summer and targetted the Brazilian and were locked in a race for his signature with Levante.

Baiano agreed to a three-year deal as he is keen to remain in the first division after being unable to help prevent Celta from going down last term.

The operation to capture makes the 28-year-old the most expensive signing int he club's history and critics have already questioned the outlay.

During his three seasons in the Spanish league, one with Málaga and two with Celta, Baiano has only scored 12 goals-per-year on average.

Curro Torres has also agreed to move to Nueva Condomina on a 12-month loan after being told that he was not part of Quique Sánchez Flores' plans at Valencia.

Murcia have made changes to the squad that won promotion last season with no less than 14 players having already left the club.

The two latest arrivals take the tally of new faces up to 13 as the club have brought in the likes of Pablo García and Álvaro Mejía from Real Madrid, Mario Regueiro from Valencia, Enrique De Lucas from Alavés, Arzo from Villarreal and Fabián Carini from Inter.

Goal.com - Spain - Baiano And Curro Torres Swell Murcia Numbers

I really rate Baiano and I think that he could of gone to a bigger La Liga club.

But Real Murcia have approached promotion in an interesting way. Often a club signs lots of players but they're not star names. Murcia have recruited many decent sized names for the stature of the club like Fernando Baiano, Curro Torres, Pablo García, Álvaro Mejía, Mario Regueiro, Cesar Arzo and Fabián Carini. Will be interesting to see if they're stable or if they bomb back down to Segunda.

[Super Pibe #7]

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Date:September 16, Sunday
Time: 17:00
Stadium:Estadio Nueva Condomina

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Previous meetings
Liga 03/04: Real Murica 1 - 3 Atletico

Murcia have had a great start to the season, picking up 4 points in 2 games. They surprisingly beat zaragoza 2-1 on the first matchday and could only muster a 0-0 draw against fellow relegation battlers levante.

Atletico are the same as usual. They ended up spending 80million this summer and can only manage a 2-1 defeat to real madrid and a 1-1 draw against mallorca. I have to admit they look good going forward, but the whole balance of the side is terrible, their defence is all over the place and to think they have had one of the best defence in europe for the past couple of seasons.

If murcia end up winning this game, I could see them going on to achieve a midtable spot this season.

Baino do your magic

[Super Pibe #7]

Real Murcia 1 - 1 Atletico Madrid
Gallardo(80)____Kun(15)

Again same old atletico. Poor performance by them, terrible defending,no creativity in the middle. Aguirre really is messing up and I really think he will be sacked soon.

Aguero off for mista ? Taking of aguero is bad enough, but to put mista over luis garcia ?

Murcia are having a great start to the season. Beat zaragoza,drew with levante and now atletico. Not many people would’ve expected them to pick up 5 points from those 3 games.

[Super Pibe #7]

0-0

Very tight game, with few chances. Most of murica#s chances fell to the legendary bainao,but wasn’t able to convert them.

Though the biggest chance fell to Mark gonzalez , can’t believe the Liverpool fans thought he would set the epl alight :ninja

[Mighty T.A.L.]

Murcia - Sevilla 0-0