In what would be heart-breaking news for a few but comforting for others Guti has admitted that moving to the Premier League is an attractive option after revealing there is no chance of him staying at Real Madrid. The 33-year-old believes that he has two more years left at a high level and wants to experience a new challenge before hanging up his boots. In an interview to Onda Madrid, the midfielder has confessed that this would be his last Clásico. He said:

Right now there is no possibility that I will stay at Madrid. This will be my last clasico. I have a year left on my contract but I think we can reach an understanding. I am sure that they will understand that my best option is to go.

Guti has always had a problem with something or the other every season. He has a contract for life with Real something that would renew itself it the player makes a particular number of appearances. But his place in the side this time around has been questioned and the blond bombshell has made fewer appearances than he would have liked.

With Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal and several other Premier League clubs on his trail, the veteran midfielder hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a move elsewhere. He said that he doesn’t want to make a big scene out of his plans to move on and that he wants to leave Real with dignity. And with dignity he will leave. He has had his ups and downs but has survived through several the various crops of players right from the time he made it into the first team. Like all the players generally say when asked about Guti, the man is special indeed. He always has something out of the ordinary. He can be both the best midfielder in the World and the worst midfielder in the World as well and that is Guti for you. He continued:

The most important thing is to leave a club like Real Madrid with dignity. I think that I have two more years left in me and my idea is either England, Italy or the Middle East. Anywhere outside of Spain will be good, but it does depend on the offers.

Finally, when asked about whether this decision was because of the lack of playing time, he said that he understands that going down the pecking order is part and parcel of a footballer’s career and that it can happen to anyone and went on to recommend that either David Silva or Cesc Fábregas would be the ideal players to replace him though given a choice he’d prefer to see Andres Iniesta. Some consolation that would be. I am not sure about whether we would indeed go out and get those players but as far as I am concerned Guti is irreplaceable. There are a few things which money can’t buy and Guti is one of them. It does not mean that I think Guti is better than those three. I know that as well. But Guti can be found only in Guti and in no one else.

Xabi Alonso who will experience his first Clásico at the Bernabéu on Saturday gave an interview for a second consecutive day to El Larguero. Out of all the pointless things he said, only this was something that can be considered relevant:

If we let Barça get comfortable we will have a tough time winning. We need to continue playing like we have been on both ends of the pitch. Getting past their first line of pressure to create plays from there is very important to our success.