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Flick needs to set him a goalscoring target like Ancelotti set Valverde. Such a ridiculously talented player, probably one of the main things he's missing is more goal threat and directness, he needs to improve that goalbox movement and particularly finishing. I almost get the feeling if he...

That's a fair assessment. I would expect Flick to achieve around 85 league points and depending on draw make it to CL QFs or SFs.

Yes, but do note that Madrid had a uniquely weak year on all fronts. Indeed the main difference between 22-23 and 23-24 is that Madrid went from 78 points to 95(!) If Flick was competing against Madrid 22-23 then I would expect him to win the title. In other words, if Madrid are keeping an...

I sense this post is half joking because you actually make a really observant point. Part of why team morale was so good under Xavi, I sense, because they actually bought his excuses and thought they deserved to win all those games but simply lost due to referees. They didn't lose confidence...

Signing yet another finesse type winger who doesn't score much after we have already signed a large amount of forwards would be absurd financial mismanagement from the board. With the small money we've had available, we have signed Ferran, Raphinha, Lewa, Roque, Olmo (AMish) and are now looking...

I almost think if club end up finishing 4th or something like that it will start to provoke Laporta into making the big decisions that need to be made on the squad. We need to start seriously evaluating whether it's worth to sell some players and to be more willing to make difficult sales in...

We're probably going to struggle this season. Mbappe looks like he fits in fine and will score a boatload of Liga goals. It's such a shame because seeing the type of business Madrid do, it's not like they spend massive amounts of money.. they just make sure they have their finances in order...

That is the problem, Araujo can't distribute, and a lot of the time the team gets caught out because he makes bad passes. It's helpful if he is paired with a CB who can play the ball like Cubarsi but then teams have tried to shift the ball away from his pair and give it to him. It's probably a...

Militao is nowhere near Araujo's physical level but better on ball and tactically.

Jamdav has managed the foremost indicator of a debate win : the last word.

This thread is turning into a black hole :lol:

What is going on here :lol: :lol: :lol:

Eventually every thread will be conquered by these two.

I don't really know what to say to that as I don't have enough knowledge on the topic. If you want me to agree their fans are more stupid, yeah I do (of course there will be many who aren't), but generally they are one of the more delusional and less informed fanbases, they are incredibly harsh...

Are you trolling? Whats with all the autism stuff and obsessing over United? I also remember another guy on here who used to call people autists a lot...

I just look at their team and who they paid huge fees for... the likes of Antony and Hojlund costing 160m combined for example, and it's not about hindsight, because those two were never ever worth that much at the time they left either. They spent a massive amount of money but on average...

Are you a City fan by chance? You spoke about bluemoon and you seem to really hate United and their fans.

By an utterly incompetent disaster of a board who signed basically average players for giant fees, yes, that is what led them to this problem, they have repeatedly signed average players for grossly inflated fees for many years now. That board is gone and I think the new one will learn some...

I agree with this and did mention in my post I don't think they will ever be able to win a league title unless they switch to a far more control based system. They could keep doing well in the cups though and perhaps in CL down the line which isn't a bad thing either, it just depends what you...