Penal Madrid

[Trickykid]

It feels like yesterday when Barça fans in here were lauding RM's superior transfer strategy that was bound to ensure complete and total domination both domestically and in Europe for decades to come. The envy and rage directed at our own board for not copying this strategy was laughably naive.
Asensio was the new Cronaldo, Ceballos ready to replace Modric, Theo the new Marcelo and Vallejo Ramos reincarnated and so on and so forth.

The reality was of course that they absolutely needed some world class signings alongside the talents, as mere talents would never ever be able to take over the reins for close to irreplaceable guys like them. I know a lot of madridistas saw this coming miles away, but as usual Barça fans were busy crying and whining about the greener grass on the other side of the fence.

Real obviously aren't doomed - just as we aren't - but the transition fase has obviously not been as straight forward as many in here believed.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Season is over already, and its purely down to Perez, time to take a break from football, i guess.
Congrats on winning another domestic double, try not get too mad at Valverde for winning....

It is not even November yet.

But I like your anti-jinxing so far. Keep it up.

 

[Mitchell1978]

the 3e place and 17 points behind wasn't a coincidence, didn't replace their goalscorer and Lopetegui looks out of his depth

 

[xXKonan]

Has to be one of the worst Midfield performances I've seen out of Real.

At one point in the first half, it was like 70% Possession for us vs 30 to them. Even in the recent Classico's I never have seen them have that little of the ball at one point especially the quality of Modric-Case-Kroos.

 

[Richard.H]

They just lack motivation and rightly so. They won 3 CL’s in a row. Their squad has achieved more on a club level than our squad could ever dream of.

Lopetegui or someone else, it’s going to be very hard to get a coach that can light a fire under this teams ass

 

[Givenchy]

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this shit is comedy gold, bravo

 

[mc_lovin]

They just lack motivation and rightly so. They won 3 CL’s in a row. Their squad has achieved more on a club level than our squad could ever dream of.

Lopetegui or someone else, it’s going to be very hard to get a coach that can light a fire under this teams ass

I wouldnt swap our last 10 years for their last 10.


Edit: WOuldnt even trade our last 5 for theirs thinking about it. League should always be priority.

 

[Morten]

Why not take the 3-0 loss on walk-over when you are getting trashed? 3-0 is less bad than 5-1, i dont get it.

 

[mc_lovin]

The shitstorm isnt worth it?^^ Would set a terrible precedent.

 

[Andresito]

Why not take the 3-0 loss on walk-over when you are getting trashed? 3-0 is less bad than 5-1, i dont get it.

Players would be hung if they did that.

That's no way to represent the shirt.

 

[Morten]

Also, Barcelona looks much better set for the future without Messi than we are without some of our big players.
A year ago everyone here said the opposite, funny how fast things can change.

 

[serghei]

Signs were there since last year. Why is there such a big surprise now considering they finished 17 points behind us last year? Just because they lucked their way to a CL win?

Also, Barcelona looks much better set for the future without Messi than we are without some of our big players.
A year ago everyone here said the opposite, funny how fast things can change.

It's like that with every team. When they are at the top people think their young players shoot rainbows out of their ass. We thought Montoya is the next Dani Alves ffs.

 

[El Gato]

Signs were there since last year. Why is there such a big surprise now considering they finished 17 points behind us last year? Just because they lucked their way to a CL win?

Big surprise as to what?

 

[xXKonan]

I really don't get the point in them signing Odriozola when the likes of Nacho and Lucas Vasquez who isn't even an RB is ahead of him in the pecking order.

Couldn't have been any worse than what Nacho did in the first half.

 

[serghei]

Big surprise as to what?

That your main players are declining majorly and are demotivated. Like ours basically, except we got some rebuilding done with the likes of Arthur, Umtiti, Coutinho, Dembele, even Semedo.

Your young gems seem to have troubles stepping up as fast as you'd want them to.