Kylian Mbappé

Don Juan Laporta Estruch

Well-known member
If you want to be calm go and support an English or german club this one ain't for you. I'll be fucking calm when we win the UCL and League back to back.

You hope they buy two more players ?

So you like watching professional footballers play for our rival. Fuck sake grow the fuck up. They just won the UCL and League again. Are you going to mouth this shit evey year because they can buy and we can't we need to use the excuse they can buy whoever shit were lucky and blessed to have our juniors the management don't fucking do shit about that they organise the first team and so far it's a big mess with players with bad attitudes.

Our team is not good enough did you not see that this year no fucking formation or coach is going to change the fucking joke of a team we have right now.

We have de Jong saying he'll risk it for the euros while giving us nothing back for 40mil and not replying to contract talks.

Walk yourself out whenever you feel like it.

Listen Karen, I'm here to stay and I apologise for offending you by not shitting my pants and throwing my toys out of the pram.

In the meantime,


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Suck it up, buttercup. :xavi:
 

Birdy

Senior Member
Love the panic here for someone who has done jack shit on club level the last 4 or more years, and has failed in his big goal which was to deliver CL. Yeah I know all the excuses, but he was nowhere to be seen in all important games for them.

And let's say Ancelotti benches Rodrygo for him (the obvious choice). How many things will be different for them next season? Wouldn't they able to score goals on the counter already?
Will he give them any edge against deep blocks, which he is unable to break?
Will they transform in a team that plays better football overall?
Let's wait and see

Then, the obvious downsides of this transfer, which many overlook
1) He is bending their wage structure to its limit, despite getting less than at QSQ
2) Locker-room issues. The guy is the paradigm of toxicity in the locker room. He can create issues out of nothing. Let's see how many months can they all co-exist peacefully
 

JohnN

Senior Member
Love the panic here for someone who has done jack shit on club level the last 4 or more years, and has failed in his big goal which was to deliver CL. Yeah I know all the excuses, but he was nowhere to be seen in all important games for them.

And let's say Ancelotti benches Rodrygo for him (the obvious choice). How many things will be different for them next season? Wouldn't they able to score goals on the counter already?
Will he give them any edge against deep blocks, which he is unable to break?
Will they transform in a team that plays better football overall?
Let's wait and see

Then, the obvious downsides of this transfer, which many overlook
1) He is bending their wage structure to its limit, despite getting less than at QSQ
2) Locker-room issues. The guy is the paradigm of toxicity in the locker room. He can create issues out of nothing. Let's see how many months can they all co-exist peacefully
This is some kind of coping?
RM will be stacked with multiple bdor candidates and obviously a winner. We will have ferran, raphinia and Lewandowski (and some 16 yo kid) for our front line.
CL is not a competition you can win if your team let's you down.
Having a team that can actually be clutch and not depend on a player bailing them out every time will do wonders for Mbappe.
 

malvolio

Senior Member
Will be interesting to see how the relationship between the Brazilians and Mbappe + French contingent unfolds.

Wouldn't surprise me to see Mbappe return to PSG at some point in his career.
 

Kul_z

Senior Member
Well, they can buy whoever, its 11(12 ref) vs 11. Our best bet now is la masia and proper coaching. Kinda like those odds.
 

Rory

Senior Member
Think there's always this idea because a team is stacked they're going to dominate. If you asked every barca fan how many more UCLs we would have by now after winning the one in 2011 most would have said 3-5 more. And they would have referenced multiple all time great players at young ages as the reason for this.

Same shit this time round. They need to gel and then prove they can all deal with sharing a piece of the pie. Don't think Mbappe will be too happy with the spotlight on Bellingham. And Bellingham is going nowhere, he'll be england captain in 2-3 years max to boost image even more. Vinicius possibly pushed out of position despite being most effective forward.

They're also losing Kroos who has been massive for them, Modric will be gone soon. Carvajal, Nacho (I know he's not amazing but he's not captain for no reason). All players that have been there for a long time who are probably huge figures to have in the changing room. They'll have to deal with them going. Think of Xavi, Puyol, Mascherano all leaving and the effect that had.
 

soul24rage

Senior Member
The one real weakness that I could see is the lack of a playmaker in the center of the field with Kroos retiring. Camavinga, Tchouameni and Valverde are not ones who will dictate the game and make those clean cut passes when building up play. They still have Modric, but don't see him starting in the big games.
 

El Gato

Villarato!
Carvajal, Nacho (I know he's not amazing but he's not captain for no reason). All players that have been there for a long time who are probably huge figures to have in the changing room. They'll have to deal with them going. Think of Xavi, Puyol, Mascherano all leaving and the effect that had.
Seniority does correlate with performance at Madrid I guess, but Nacho himself knows he's not irreplacable. He's a great asset to have when on it. Underappreciated in most ways.

That said all players we're losing we've actually prepped better for than previously when you've had Alonso f off late in the window or CR leaving with no remotely similar level threat left behind dumping everything on Benzema & teenage Vini back.
Lot of people will bicker about Kroos leaving without the right profile player to pick up the slack, but folk are putting far too much emphasis on it assuming team has to play the same way without him and it'll be less effective. The opposite might happen just as well and team will become an athletic machine with Jude pinging balls around the field from his natural #8/#10 hybrid role + Tchou-Fede could turn out to be a great pivot duo considering the latter is already basically irreplacable in what he's been doing at RCDM this season

If we move to 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 as expected, things could just as well fall into place
Main thing is to have enough threat to never worry about winning games through lack of talent up-top. We may become top-heavy conceding lots through lackluster buildup to start with. Doesnt matter. Then it's just a case of coach doing his job.

That + avoiding injuries, which tends to decimate chances for a good season
 

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