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After a falling out with Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola at the end of last season and with the addition of Robert Lewandowski to the Bavarian strike force in the summer, all signs pointed to “Super Mario” Mandžukić out at Bayern Munich. And on Thursday, it was made official.
Mandžukić will be joining last season’s La Liga champions and Champions League runner’s up Atletico Madrid. The deal is worth four years at an estimated price tag of €22 million. Mandza will be replacing Diego Costa, who was sold to Chelsea for nearly double the price tag of the Croatian.
Mandžukić scored 33 goals in 54 Bundesliga games for Bayern after joining them from Wolfsburg in 2012. He helped the German giants win back-to-back Bundesliga titles which included a Champions League crown in 2013.
With Mandza joining Atletico and Ivan Rakitić moving to Barcelona, Croatians will be well represented in Spain throughout the biggest three clubs with Luka Modrić beginning his third season with Real Madrid.
Which of these three clubs will win La Liga this season? And which Croatian international will perform the best?
My prediction: Real Madrid to win the league with Modrić pulling the strings for Los Blancos in magnificent fashion for a second season in a row.
“posranac”
@Soulchamp-As Zivas step dad,I must ask you to cease calling my son a “Mali po sranac”
Thank you.
Hvala Bogu that I have BEIN Sport!
La liga is the best for our players. High skill and winter break.
Bundesliga is great to blood the young talent.
EPL burns you out and zaps your legs during the 4 competition season.
Serie A is broke and full of complexes. Plus with Euro qualifying coming up our boys may be vulnerable to Italian treachery.
Mandžukić will eat at Athleti and actually SCORE goals, which last time I checked makes a difference in winning major trophies.
@ Mali po sranci
I know some of you little guys cannot appreciate the BEAST that is MANdzukic because you are prefer mommies domaći. Can’t wait to see Mario put Bayern to the sword in the CL and let Peder Pep know about!
In many ways SMM embodies the ZDS life, it just actualizes in the opponents penalty box.
@Armada
Impressive now Rijeka has this trophy. i think it will come down to them and Dinamo for first place but gotta admit after our WC did not even watch this game. Lost interest I guess when you see the disappointment at Brazil you tune out these games related to Croatian soccer for a bit.
My perspective so glad that Mandzukic is not going to Italy, glad that Jedvaj is out and hope Rebic is sent to another country. I hate our players just sitting on a bench in italy.
As for Juve I don’t agree that they make shrewed deals, I think far from it. Juve continues to be in the red. Last year they lost 16M, 2011 they had 95M loss and 2010 another negative figure. Seems if anything they overspend on players and transfers. If anything Juve to me is know as the ones who were demoted due to match fixing scandal. Yikes.
Rijeka with more trophies in the past 2 months then 9 years at Hajduk
LOL
rijeka bravo
For those that give a shit
Rijeka 2 – Dinamo 1
Rijeka win the 2014 Super Cup
so you know what this means, right?
@ Cico
SUPER KUP JE NAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOG
CICO
KIKIRIKI
AVION
SISE
PRSUT
MARENDE
I HNS!!!!!!!
Rijeka win the Supercup.
Is it at all possible that they might win the HNL this year?
@Ivica
I am. Do it yourself if you are.
Check Pleti’s date for this weekend. They sure have a lot in common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=c4ys61-A-eo
@F1
Do a search and post the conversation if you’re so sure.
@Ivica
LOL, i freaked out, give it a rest. You were like a baby jumping up and down. Never seen something like that. It was like you were jock sniffing poor Mario. Love how you change the position now. 🙂
jebiga , it is what it
Chubbs would say, “just tap it in, Happy.”
Ivica Olic style!
So, tap in goals are coming to La Liga this season?
@F1
LOL.
I, along with a few others, said that Juve would be a good fit. You freaked out and argued that Juve would never be interested in Mandžukić. It turns out that you were very wrong, and Juve came knocking. But Juve only makes shrewd deals, so the asking price was too much for them.
Suarez, Rakitic, Neymar, and Messi …i say Barca runs things this year
the fight for the La Liga crown will be a dog fight this year… Il Clasico will be must see TV with all the names both teams brought in this summer…
Excellent move for him! Hope to see him shine at Atletico.
Who was that fool last summer who kept debating Mario should be at Juventus ? Some know it all on this site. Yeah right with that head case Tevez, that would work out just great. lol
Great move for him,. great team, good players, beautiful place and a coach to match Mario’s temper.
Good move for him. Looks like I’ll be even more invested in La Liga than usual.
Good move for Mario!