Kylian Mbappé

Andresito

Andresito

Senior Member
Staff member
There's no obvious solution for the XI at the moment.

The FIFA lineup of Vini, Mbappe, Rodrygo front three might not work and instead it will have to be Rodrygo CF with Mbappe on the wing. Vini's not going to be benched so that leaves 3 spots for Tchou, Fede, Cama and Jude.

Otherwise there's the option of playing a diamond midfield with all those midfielders, with Fede covering the right wing. And using Vini/Mbappe like this year's Vini/Rodrygo.

Courtois
Carvajal, Miltao, Rudiger, Mendy
Fede, Tchou, Cama
Jude
Mbappe, Vini
 
Loki

Loki

Well-known member
Will be interesting to see, if Madrid holds or loses their defensive stability with Mbappe, which brought them LaLiga this season, as it did us last season.
 
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Temptation

Well-known member
Why are people so scared of this Madrid side?


They are very very beatable. Dortmund BATTERED them in the first half and had clear cut chances and hit the post too.


Madrid players have admitted City being better than them. City are still the strongest team on the planet. Madrid is 2nd after them.


Barca have a great team. They were just dumb to not utilise their biggest weapons and strengths properly. Without Araujo's red card, Barca walk into the final. It's not all doom and gloom.


Stop playing Gundogan so deep. Play him as the most advanced mid. He's ageing and is much better around those advanced 8 pockets. Gundogan has a tendency to play the killer passes and chip in with goals. Pedri clearly can't do the business as the most advanced mid. Use him as a super sub.


Here's what Barca needs: One defensively strong, physical DM with a high work rate, decent athleticism and good IQ. One fast dribbler for the left wing. A winger with poor end product will be fine as long as they can create space and cause trouble/panic like Dembele did. Preferably one proper RB.


MATS
Kounde Araujo Cubarsi Balde
Gavi DM Gundogan
Yamal RL9 FastLW


Pedri Raphinha Fermin Roque etc can be subs.
This is a very fast and physical team overall.
Keep Gundogan closer to the goal and stop playing him deep as a pivot.
Flick will use Balde in the Davies role to use his pace and facilitate the high line, make recovery runs and bomb forward to create an extra man. The kid needs to improve his crossing big time.
Gavi will be a key player under Flick and will be used as the chief pressing trigger and the all-action enforcer. A Prime Kante style role.
Flick won't make the same mistake as Xavi and will use RL9, his biggest weapon effectively.


There's a reason why Flick was salivating about the Barca job. This squad suits him and he needs only a couple of half decent signings to make this team into a juggernaut.


Coman is actually the perfect profile or style of player needed. I know about his injury issues. I'm just talking about his player profile here. Barca need a Coman/Doku/Dembele type. The explosive dribbler that's unbeatable 1 on 1 and can cause chaos and disrupt defenses creating space.

The DM needs to be strong, tall, a little fast and very defensive minded. Safe and neat on the ball. Nothing too extraordinary.
 
malvolio

malvolio

Senior Member
Well, things could have went south for them in the CL this season. Margins were really thin. So that's a coin toss, even if the coin mainly lands great for Madrid.

The league is totally theirs, because we don't have the squad to push them.
 
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NKMaribor

Active member
soul24rage said:
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.
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A non tempo midfielder can still make quality passes, just lacks tempo capacity. Other than that, quality post which shows potential issue.

Madrid needs a premium forward who can score shitload of goals and also have capacity to create chances by himself. Mbappe is slam dunk signing. If Flo would have rejected him and offer such arguments as offered here, he should be escorted to the nearest Asylum.
 
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NKMaribor

Active member
Birdy said:
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
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Without Mbappe, PSG would be absolute peasants. Secondly you are asking what will be different with him in the line up instead of Rodrygo? Do i even need to answer that?

As for wage structure. I have no doubt you have done your research about Madrid’s wage structure or in general economic health, while also having the accurate info about his wages.
 
El Gato

El Gato

Villarato!
Andresito said:
There's no obvious solution for the XI at the moment.

The FIFA lineup of Vini, Mbappe, Rodrygo front three might not work and instead it will have to be Rodrygo CF with Mbappe on the wing. Vini's not going to be benched so that leaves 3 spots for Tchou, Fede, Cama and Jude.

Otherwise there's the option of playing a diamond midfield with all those midfielders, with Fede covering the right wing. And using Vini/Mbappe like this year's Vini/Rodrygo.

Courtois
Carvajal, Miltao, Rudiger, Mendy
Fede, Tchou, Cama
Jude
Mbappe, Vini
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There is
A 4-3-3 is what they'll go with to start with to try and see how it functions in a shape team was used to during Benzema days
If Rodrygo does better, they'll stick with him, if he sucks, they might rotate Guler/Brahim and see if that sacrifice proves more in benefit to rest of the side

Diamond makes no sense with the amount of wide players anymore
4-2-3-1 with two pivots is another halfway house they might try
 
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Morten

Senior Member
NKMaribor said:
Without Mbappe, PSG would be absolute peasants. Secondly you are asking what will be different with him in the line up instead of Rodrygo? Do i even need to answer that?

As for wage structure. I have no doubt you have done your research about Madrid’s wage structure or in general economic health, while also having the accurate info about his wages.
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PSG might be weakened, but on the other hand, it's not like they need him to win uber eats trophies anyway.

The only trophy he was bought for, he couldn't give them.
 
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Messicito

Member
You have to laugh at you all still thinking Mbappe will have issues at Striker after his Instagram post of his photos as a gaydridsta... he even calls himself madrid striker wake up.

But then what thoe
.. maybe they do have issues. They maybe sell viny and buy Haaland. Oh yeah that makes it all better lol.
 
snowy

snowy

Well-known member
He'll be top scorer but team's tally will end up lower and goal differential worse.
Sucks in the target man role.

Half-way through the season, he'll complain he wants to play in the left #PivotGang

If Carlo accommodates, midfield will have to run marathons like Kante, Matuidi and Cardioman just to fill the gaps and they'll be bushed come CL crunch time

Flo having a late midlife crisis with his luxury signing, Sonic Puig as the super creative midfielder woulda been streetsmart choice :whistle:
 
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