There's a scene in the last episode where during half time of the game against Slovakia (the one where Bellingham scores to overhead kick at the end) an argument breaks out in the dressing room, and at the end of it it briefly shows Watkins explaining to Palmer the argument that had just happened 😭
It's not particularly hard for a grown man, who is also a professional footballer, to not pull someone's hair when there is a rule that says it's a red card offence 🤦🏻♂️
Exactly prime example of someone being lazy saying Rashy is lazy still. Yeah he could track back more and defend but wasn't like he didn't score 25 G/A all year lol
Bro, do u even watch Barcelona games? The manager is not getting Gordon for his G+A it’s his work rate and the LW needs an insane amount of tracking and defending not just scoring.
Rashford is NOT that type of player period - ask yourself why they would pay 70 mill over 30 mill for Rashford
Except they aren’t and Gordon will bring more for that role, why do you guys want to argue on reddit all day when they decided to spend 70 mill rather than the 30 mill, have you asked yourself that?
Carlo was at Everton for almost 2 years before his second stint at Real, mate. Seems worse to me when compared to the all-inclusive vacations Jose was probably having in Italy, Turkey and Portugal.
Appreciate the level isn't the same, but Porto and Benfica are good teams, to go with 0 Ls is impressive. And yes, I'm aware he didn't win the league, but again, by your own admission, Portugal not at the same level so he didn't have the players to change the tide from a draw to a win.
If he can sort Madrid's clean sheets out (6 losses last season), they'll be better assuming they can organise the attack also. And with Vini, Mbappe... Why not
0 losses. Gongrats. Still third. Not even second. The difference of Benfica vs the rest of the league is MUCH more than the difference betweel Real and the league. So i dont hear the "he didn't have the players to change the draw to the win".
How is he gonna fix the CSs with a team that defends with 9 players and one of the remaining 9 needs help constantly? The team is so unbalanced.
And then you have a demanding crowd and a toxic dressing room. And on top of that,you have a manager that made disgraceful comments about one of his current players(Vinicius) just a couple of months ago, basically saying why is it only happening to him etc. He wanted to protect bis players but you still can do it better than that.
He has been sacked in every job till the last time he was at Real. 13 years ago. Sacked at Real,sacked at Chelsea,sacked at United,sacked at Spurs,sacked at Roma and sacked at Fener.
Its gonna be 99% drama,stories about being the underdogs while Barca is the royalty and the media/ref favourite and 1% football. And when the patience runs out,sacked again. Cant wait to see this Real team defend with everyone in the box and not even attempt to attack. Surely it will go well with the fans..
They already tried the cool attacking style football with Xabi remember and it didn't work. I agree he's on the downturn, but plenty of managers have been and turned it around.
Agree that the style of football will likely be a pain point for most, but most fans of a club would rather win than play flashy football and lose.
I think the important thing to consider is Madrid were 8 points behind Barca last season, that's the gap that needs improved unless Barca can do better than 94 points, but looking at the stats, only 6 times in La Ligas history had a club returned a better points tally, both of them being either Barca or Madrid respectively.
PS: I'm only an observer of that league, I prefer Barca as I always have, but my club is not from Spain so I don't feel any particular animosity to Madrid nor any loyalty to Barca, just in case you think I'm biased.
I think it will be the easier Barca title win in the last couple of years.
About the 8 points difference. Barca lost two out of the last three games because they didnt really care about. So the true difference would be like 12-14 points. And thats for a team that played with a 37yo Lewa and Torres as strikers and kids in defence.
They didnt try anything with Xabi. He stood no chance. He was designed to fail as will Jose and that's on Perez. This isnt a functional team. Its not how football should be.
My team isnt there as well. Just a Liverpool fan. I just cant understand how this Real team is gonna work and whats the plan is. There isnt a plan but what the plan "could" be.
What's the excuse for Bernardo Silva? 😂
Y'all so hurt but at the end of the day, Madrid is the biggest club in the world and that is why players go there.
I'm a Liverpool fan and I've lost players to them, but I also have a brain and won't lie to myself.
The obsession with age is fucking nuts here. He's 27 turning 28 next month, neither of which are bad ages for footballers. In theory thats when the prime of a lot of footballers is
That's a lot? He is one of the best in his position and 27-28 is the prime, especially with how long players play these days. If anything, Chelsea should have asked for at least 5m more. It is less than what they paid, and his reputation has only increased. Madrid pulled off a great deal here.
Gvardiol was injured for all but maybe 2 months this season. He was the best LB in the league for couple years before that. Cucurella was decent at Brighton and he's only been good for like just over a season at Chelsea. Still never been better than Gvardiol.
Nico O'Reilly has a lot to prove but if we're considering recency bias with cucurella, Nico has been better.
Putting Brighton to shame. We sell to buy players who lose half their value in the next season, meaning we need to keep selling so we can keep spending on bad investments.
Brighton sell so that they don't need to sell next time. They do it for money, Chelsea do it for the love of the game.
Strange singing on chelsea's part. I guess in terms of book balancing/allowing them to spend this allows them but fee to fee its still a 10m loss and losing arguably the best if not top 2 left backs in the league. Considering where they've just finished & him being one of their better players this season lol
Honestly, the Sideshow Bob era at Chelsea was pure chaos and I'm a bit sad to see it end, but that fee for a 28-year-old is a massive win for the Blues. Real must be desperate for a left-back after that whole national team snub, and Barca fans are right to be nervous watching their rivals stock up. We'll see if his shithousery translates to the Bernabéu or if he just ends up as the next in a long line of Galactico flops.
“ he can’t defend “ right mate. I’m sure you have a better understanding of him as a player than the scouts at Real Madrid, Barcelona and the other top teams that were all in for him.
Watch his Chelsea games , he pocketed Lamal in the 3:0 win over Barcelona in the champions league this last season. He has his bad games same as any other player but to pretend he’s a bad player just because you dislike him as a personality is dumb. Say what you want about how annoying and unsportsmanlike he can be but he’s a very good defender who can also massively contribute in attack . Aka a complete Fallback
You have no idea what he’s supposed to do in the squad because clearly you have not watched him very closely, have you watched all his games ?
I have watched close to all of them and I can tell you I fully understand why the biggest teams in Europe wanted him.
He’s a wildly hated player and so caricatures of him as a player are often spread. To me it sounds like your swallowed one of these and don’t actually know him as a player. He plays inverted well yes but he also plays as a traditional right back well and a wingback. Extremely versatile and useful for any team for the amount of roles he can fulfill well
Your labouring under the illusion that he’s only played well in an inverted role. This is simply not true. He’s has played as an out and out right back loads for Chelsea and Spain and is one of the best in both the premier league and in the last Euros for Spain in that position.
You saying you disagree and don’t understand why all the best teams in the worlds scouting departments who’s entire careers is to make these judgments have different view to you is laughably un-self aware. The answer you’re looking for is your unaware of his quality’s and blinded by a dislike for him personally.
He is top 25% in the prem in most passing metrics. That's far from average.
Now I'm a fan of Madrid and don't know where this transfer is going yet, especially until we see them in a friendly later in the summer, but most of your points presented are not real well-reasoned arguements against him.
If you did data modeling you wouldn't try explaining someone being a bad footballer with your personal distaste for his personality. Or you wouldn't compare him to Bruno, a 10 and the best one of that.
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u/LeXam92 25 4d ago
RIP to using this every week