All I want for Christmas is glue – what Malaga, Barcelona, Real Madrid & each La Liga club are hoping to receive from Santa this year

As Father Christmas prepares to deliver a gift through the chimney of every Spanish stadium, Goal.com light-heartedly looks at what each Primera Division club is hoping to unwrap

24 Dec 2011 09:36:00

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By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Editor

There may not be any football on in Spain at this time of year, but every team in La Liga will be hoping for some festive cheer this Christmas. Be it winning the title, Champions League qualification, mid-table safety or merely avoiding relegation, all of the teams in the Primera Division can sit back and assess their season so far over a glass of sherry and a big dinner.

As they do so, they will analysing their needs for a prosperous 2012 in La Liga. And perhaps Father Christmas can help them. So, with Mariah Carey's classic song playing in the background, Goal.com looks at what Spain's 20 clubs will be hoping to receive from Santa this year:

All ATHLETIC BILBAO want for Christmas is: Basque passports for several of the world's top players

All ATLETICO MADRID want for Christmas is: a new karma - and new owners, too ...

All BARCELONA want for Christmas is: a few extra Clasicos to be added to the fixture list (Pep has won six, drawn one and lost none in the seven Liga meetings with Real Madrid so far)

All BETIS want for Christmas is: the luck they enjoyed in their first five games of the season

All ESPANYOL want for Christmas is: another Pablo Daniel Osvaldo

All GETAFE want for Christmas is: a DVD of their win over Barca to be included in their sperm-bank 'zombie caliente' promotional video - that will get the fans really excited

All GRANADA want for Christmas is: more players on loan from Udinese

All LEVANTE want for Christmas is: for the last two seasons to repeat themselves, so the fourth-placed side at Christmas (in this case them) qualifies for the Champions League


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All MALAGA want for Christmas is: some glue to mould together their expensively-assembled playing squad

All MALLORCA want for Christmas is: Anzhi Makhachkala to take them over, relocate to the island and bring back local hero Samuel Eto'o, who still has a house there

All OSASUNA want for Christmas is: a new contract for coach Jose Luis Mendilibar, who has propelled the northerners to fifth place in La Liga on a shoestring budget

All RACING want for Christmas is: the money promised by Indian businessman Ali Syed


All RAYO want for Christmas is: to get paid properly and on time in the coming year


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All REAL MADRID want for Christmas is: Catalan independence - so Barcelona go and play in their own league

All REAL SOCIEDAD want for Christmas is: is a machine to clone Inigo Martinez and his goals from the halfway line

All SEVILLA want for Christmas is: a Monopoly-style Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card for their president Jose Maria del Nido, who was sent down for seven-and-a-half years earlier this week

All SPORTING GIJON want for Christmas is: Barcelona to buy back defender Alberto Botia for €2.5m but let him stay at El Molinon until the end of the campaign

All VALENCIA want for Christmas is: a book on magical realism - it would nice to dream of breaking the top two, but it ain't happening any time soon ...

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All VILLARREAL want for Christmas is: a time machine so that they can travel back to early last season when they were challenging the best teams at home and in Europe


All ZARAGOZA want for Christmas is: a Messiah


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