Marquez:Barcelona spremna za drugaciji Real

Juande Ramos' arrival at Madrid has meant that Blaugrana will not know how their opponents will play, but the Mexican defender is still confident that the hosts will triumph...
Rafael Márquez has admitted that Real Madrid's change of coach means that Barcelona do not know what to expect when they play in el Clásico at the weekend.

The Mexican international believes that the Blaugrana recognised how Bernd Schuster's teams played, but that new coach Juande Ramos will be unknown quantity.

Real Madrid changed their trainer this week after losing to Sevilla at the weekend, but Márquez thinks that if Barça play the way that they have been then they will win.

"The Madrid that will come on Saturday will a different team to the one that would have come with Schuster because we knew how they played, but we do not know about how Juande will do things," he told Catalan television.

"But our task is to continue playing as we have been. The team has to remain calm and to go into the game with humility.

"In football, things are like life and now we are on the up having been down for a while."

With no indication as to what side he will name, Guardiola will wait until the morning of the game to announce his decision, but Márquez is hoping that he will be in the team.

"We are going in to el Clásico with an anxiety to win as that is everyone aim at Barça," he continued.

"I am very excited and want to play in the most famous game in the world, there is no equal to this."

Ajaks uzima Bojana Krkica na pozajmicu

Having agreed to sell Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to Real Madrid, the Dutch giants are now mooting a move to take the young Barcelona striker on loan with the promise of regular first team football.
Ajax are considering making a loan offer for Barcelona youngster Bojan Krkic for the second half of the season after being encouraged to make a move by the Catalan club.

The Dutch outfit are scouring the market for a new striker after agreeing to sell Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and have been linked with a number of frontmen for the January transfer window, according to reports in Spain and the Netherlands.

Bojan has featured this term for the Blaugrana, but he has been given less playing time that he enjoyed under Frank Rijkaard and that has apparently unsettled him.

While there is no thought of him leaving Camp Nou permanently, a loan move has been mooted in the past in order for him to play regularly and gain invaluable experience at the highest level.

In the summer the idea of going to a different club for the season was put to the 18-year-old and he turned it down saying that he would learn more from just training alongside the Barça stars every day.

After Frank Rijkaard used him regularly last term, Bojan was expecting to become even more prominent this season, given the coach's desire to promote from teh youth set-up.