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Thu 07 Jul 2009Madrid add Benzema to collection
REAL MADRID’S extraordinary and relentless summer spending spree continued to send reverberations through the football world last night when the club agreed a €35 million deal to sign the France striker Karim Benzema, a transfer that takes their spending beyond €200 million since Florentino Perez was reappointed as their galactico-obsessed president a month ago.
Perez has now signed Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Raul Albiol and brought in the man regarded as the most exciting young player in France, in a deal that could rise to €41 million depending on his success at the Bernabeu.
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