Mr. P Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Derby County season ticket holders from the 2010-11 campaign might struggle to believe it but Alberto Bueno prepares to face his former club Real Madrid on Wednesday as the highest-scoring Spanish-national in La Liga with a big money move to Porto waiting for him at the end of the season.Bueno played for Derby on loan five years ago, but with just five goals in 29 games he looked anything like Champions League material.After returning to Valladolid he moved to Rayo Vallecano and at the club with one of the lowest budgets in Spanish football he has had the season of his life. Now Champions League quarter-finalists Porto, coached by Spaniard Julen Lopetegui, are ready to poach him.Seventeen of the 35 goals that Rayo have scored this season have come from Bueno. He hit four in one game earlier this year against Levante and will be gunning for his old club on Wednesday night.Bueno came through at Real Madrid in the 2006-07 season when then manager Fabio Capello fast-tracked him from the C-team to train with David Beckham, Luis Figo and Raul.He eventually made his full debut in both La Liga and the Champions League two seasons later but like so many strikers from Real Madrid’s youth system before him he was going to have to leave to really launch his career.Following in the footsteps of Alvaro Negredo and Roberto Soldado he left the club in 2009 signing for Valladolid from where he spent a season at Derby before ending up back in Spain.Negredo and Soldado both made it into the Spain squad after they succeeded away from Madrid and national team boss Vicente Del Bosque will be watching on Wednesday when Bueno goes up against Sergio Ramos as Rayo Vallecano look to take the scalp of Real Madrid in their rickety atmosphere-charged three-sided Vallecas stadium. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3030487/Alberto-Bueno-flopped-Derby-County-striker-stands-brink-big-money-Porto-call-Spain-squad.html#ixzz3WkfFkreY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 no, not a flop. Disgusting journalism. He was a kid at the time ffs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 It seems to me he looked at his scoring record & decided he was a flop! Lazy journalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Yeah, 5 goals, but how many assists? How many defenders left for dust, on the floor, unable to keep up with his skill. He was too good for the Championship when he was here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Please don't confuse tabloid football writers with real life journalists that risk limb and life to bring you real news of things happening far away that have nothing but credibility when riding with rebel or government forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLACML Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 No, he was quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 no, not a flop. Disgusting journalism. He was a kid at the time ffs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 No, he was quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Definitely quality. There was a period with Shefki Kuqi in the Chris Martin role. Commons and Bueno ripping teams apart around him, when we saw Nigel's blueprint of how he wanted to play. He ran out of time or didn't have the courage of his convictions to fully implement it. He was very close though as Steve proved when he took over and just tweaked it.Bueno was very young but he showed he was a very talented footballer in the right system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Offers more than Dawkins does now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 He wasn't a flop but he wasn't as good as you lot are making out.Had about 4 or 5 brilliant games, the rest steady.Bit like Mascarell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 He wasn't a flop but he wasn't as good as you lot are making out.Had about 4 or 5 brilliant games, the rest steady.Bit like Mascarell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 He wasn't a flop but he wasn't as good as you lot are making out.Had about 4 or 5 brilliant games, the rest steady.Bit like Mascarell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I liked him. Looked a bit pants when we started kicking the ball at his neck. Him, Cywka, Green, Commons, Kuqi, Brayford. Best period under Nigel. Then it started with Luke Moore keep getting games. Would be like replacing Martin with Best. We began panicking after a couple of bad results. Bueno got injured at Burnley and by the time he came back the spell was broken. Wasn't exactly great but he was a forward thinking player with good passing and movement. By the end of the season that seemed to be the opposite of what we was about. Thought that 4231 was the best football since Burley. Luke frickin' Moore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashz09 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Kuqi jesus when he played his work rate and ability to hold the ball up was brilliant. I think he only played 3-4 games(Could be wrong) but the system worked a charm then. I remember Bueno I rated him at the time bit on and off but shown brilliant skill at times and scored some nice goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Exactly correct... As with albentosa if his name was Keith Smith and we had signed him from Nuneaton then you would all have hated him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 He was a class above the Championship when he was on it. That piece of skill to win the penalty at 1:21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 not at all. I'll say that Miles Addison had a season where he was very good too. We've never had, in my memory, anyone who is consistently good, even Will Hughes has more anonymous games that influential!I think you need a reality pill when judging players. You seem to think Messi is the measuring stick when he isn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Bueno was decent, but quickly faded. It wasn't his ability, though. He just wasn't used properly. I read that we could have signed him for a little over a million - now he's joined Porto. I wouldn't call him a flop, but I wouldn't say he was a roaring success either. I know someone compared him to Mascarell but that's not the case for me. Mascarell was ever present, made mistakes, but played a key role in the team that was in the top three for large periods.Bueno was outstanding on his day but had a lot more off days than on. Bueno is very much the white Dawkins. Techinically superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Never understand why we didnt keep Kuqi, that 5 or 6 game spell october time was awesome, some of the best football seen. Remember the first 20 mins against portsmouth, was amazing. We got upto 4th, looked like worldbeaters then it all went wrong.I know Commons went on to do ok, but what happened to Cywka? He looked great now hes just a very average player who struggles to get a game. I always thought Bueno struggled when the cold weather hit....possibly coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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