Real Madrid (old thread)

[Antimilan]

Whack... as for now.

 

[Beast]

Balague was talking about Benzema's reaction at the substitution as well actually .....

Following Sunday's defeat, Revista understands that Benzema sought out a meeting with Pellegrini to clarify his position in the side.

Balague commented: "Benzema wanted a word with Pellegrini on the way back to Madrid to get an answer on why he gets replaced so often but also he was trying to say 'Raul and I are similar, we fill the same spaces, what do I have to do to improve?'

"Benzema has been accused of going wide too often, in which case he kills the space of Ronaldo or some of the full-backs. Basically what we have here is a player who still doesn't understand what the manager wants of him and a manager who is very intelligent and will have explained this is what you need to do but be patient. You don't build Rome in one day."

As i said much ado about nothing, what he is asking Manu is quite natural and in an appropriate way nothing to do with what Goal reported

 

[Hamzah]

sometimes i don't know where that guy stands. he obviously hates barca but to be neutral sometimes overcompensates and praises us a bit TOO much or has a dig at madrid. most of the time he prefers madrid however.

 

[Metaphysical]

First i disagree with your description of Xabi , off form ? definitely, Michael Carrick ? Xabi piss all over him ..

yeah xabi is better than carrick, my point is stylistically they are the same. both CAN defend and are good in a sweeping DM role but their primary skills are ball distribution and getting forward.

Xabi need to play beside Momo Diarra and regain his form nothing more .. he is a great defensive play maker ..one of the best in the world atm .

again, I agree.

but you can't ask xabi to be the kind of DM that moves into space to cover and assist a full-back. that's not what he does and he doesn't have the pace for it anyhow.

second u can't play with a right winger if the manager don't believe in wingers and pure attacking midfielders mind u in his point of view Kaka & CR are not playing as AM's in the 4-2-2-2 but free roam to go from left & right ..etc that's why i said earlier in my reply to Irv (or Kevin ) that it will take longer for the players to understand and adapt to the tactics which brings me back to my initial post that Real will not win the liga this year

well pellegrini's tactical idiocies have to be shaken off, really. 4222 needs absolute stone-cold world-class up-front to work. brazil in '05 had adriano and robinho and were epic. brazil in '06 had ronaldo at his fattest and an adriano who had begun his downward spiral.

real don't have the necessary pace and movement up-front to play 4222. raul and ruud are guaranteed goals but not much else. benzema could do the job but he's not all that quick, higuain is fast enough but who knows if he'll be given a go and who knows how well he'll play with benzema?

4231 is the best formation for real, really. with ronaldo playing more of a wide-role it'll keep him and kaka in their own spaces (can't be coincidence that kaka's best game was espanyol away when CR didn't feature 'til the end?) and allow him to do what he does best, come off the flanks and finish things.

 

[Plip]

Seriously the catalan press are on fire these days now EMD say Valdano will take over , Perez didn't like any of our games and Pellegerini sinned by playing Raul a player Perez hate (well at least they got that right )

That's the exact reasons why I happen to LOVE Catalan press as they act like most of the forum members just for the fun of it - Crisis in Madrid!

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

Would anyone take Marca or AS seriously as journalism though?

 

[Beast]

Would anyone take Marca or AS seriously as journalism though?

If it's not transfers (70:30 ) it's a good source for what goes inside the club at times same easy EMD & Sport..
the last source for news a liga fan can look for is any club official website

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

They make most of it up as they go along, you know that very well.

 

[Nándor]

and to prove what has been said about AS & MARCA so far i shall give you 2 of the latest topics (mainly from AS, if not only)

1) r. carlos should return, since marcelo (after sevilla game) sucks and so does drenthe. r. carlos already has been quoted saying that he'd gladly return apart from january and play for free till the summer.

2) the reason why real madrid play bad is that cesc fábregas is missing. therefore it's todays frontpage on AS.com that fábregas & ribéry are priorities for the summer of 2010. sidenote, rossel wants fábregas as well, for his presidency. thus it's gonna be a battle...huuuuh

that clearly says it all, it's national team time and the press is bored.

damn i hope one day not too soon benzema will actually be that sort of troublemaker. that would be great, cause that would mean OFF YOU GO overrated jarhead anelka!!! better fixing problems later than never

 

[kozhell]

Cesc won't join Madrid.

 

[John Antonio Bilboa]

Benzema gets bored real quick, he's a striker that likes to play with the flow of the game which means he wants to get involved in the build up. That's why he tends to drift wide to try and link up with CR7, but what often happens is by leaving his position and going out wide, he drags defenders with him leaving a gaping hole in the back.Ronaldo realizes that he doesn't have any link up options in front of him, so he simply runs into the space that Benzy leaves and try's for goal himself.
Benzema needs to get into the box more and give Ronaldo and Kaka more options, coming to the ball rather than waiting to receive it is the key.

 

[Beast]

Cesc won't join Madrid.

refer to Balague on this

http://www.guillembalague.com/rumor...ant Fabregas to solve midfield problem&id=237

he was the one behind it , there is "NO" but i think we can do without his service

Benzema gets bored real quick, he's a striker that likes to play with the flow of the game which means he wants to get involved in the build up. That's why he tends to drift wide to try and link up with CR7, but what often happens is by leaving his position and going out wide, he drags defenders with him leaving a gaping hole in the back.Ronaldo realizes that he doesn't have any link up options in front of him, so he simply runs into the space that Benzy leaves and try's for goal himself.
Benzema needs to get into the box more and give Ronaldo and Kaka more options, coming to the ball rather than waiting to receive it is the key.

exactly , he is still playing the same way he played with Lyon

 

[Nándor]

well the article from sport, translated by goal.com claimed (if i remember correct), that benzema thinks he & raul are not compatible...at least they got THAT right

with regards to fábregas & ribéry. i really can't see this being true, nore happening. that would just be way too sick. imagine both join madrid...now, try to field a starting XI with all of "them" in it!!! there is no way i can see to play all the midfield guns, without sacrifying a striker. unless you plan to play cristiano as a striker. the obvious starting XI IMO would be

------------defense/GK-------------

-------fábregas---xabi alonso-------

cristiano--------kaká----------ribéry

--------------negredo--------------

i put negredo over benzema since i rate him more and believe he would do way better as lone striker than benzema.

that honestly has a certain unreal taste doesn't it??? not to meantion that i have no idea wether that midfield combo of cesc & xabi would work. IMO, it's probably won't cause it's too offensive and the hole XI is too offensive.

so, ribéry yes...but fábregas too??? won't happen

 

[John Antonio Bilboa]

well the article from sport, translated by goal.com claimed (if i remember correct), that benzema thinks he & raul are not compatible...at least they got THAT right

with regards to fábregas & ribéry. i really can't see this being true, nore happening. that would just be way too sick. imagine both join madrid...now, try to field a starting XI with all of "them" in it!!! there is no way i can see to play all the midfield guns, without sacrifying a striker. unless you plan to play cristiano as a striker. the obvious starting XI IMO would be

------------defense/GK-------------

-------fábregas---xabi alonso-------

cristiano--------kaká----------ribéry

--------------negredo--------------

i put negredo over benzema since i rate him more and believe he would do way better as lone striker than benzema.

that honestly has a certain unreal taste doesn't it??? not to meantion that i have no idea wether that midfield combo of cesc & xabi would work. IMO, it's probably won't cause it's too offensive and the hole XI is too offensive.

so, ribéry yes...but fábregas too??? won't happen

In all honesty i don't know what to think i was one of those naive people who thought that cr7 would stay at MU but obviously that didn't happen. With the current mentality at Real everything is a possibility and rarely anything impossible. If there is a chance of acquiring those players, by all means it will happen.

 

[Beast]

won't happen ...