2008 Pre-season: defeating Real Madrid

By Tony Attwood The 2008 pre-season had the usual level of comings and goings with Mathieu Flamini, who had had a superb season in 2007/8 moving onto Milan at the end of his contract, Lehmann joining Stuttgart on a free, Gilberto signing for Panathinaikos, Hleb to Barcelona, and Justin Hoyte going to Middlesbrough. Coming in we …