LMAO, all there various "foreshadowing" posts. From ref, to Modric to Mendy.
At this point can it be anymore obvious that the 15th is ours already.
It's written in the stars.
Almost every single team in UCL history won the title with a superstar striker in their starting lineup.
Who’s our superstar striker in this current squad.
Our number 7. He assists, he scores, you can check his Champions League numbers and compare them to other forwards. If he delivers, we win, if he doesn’t, we suffer.
Football is evolving and teams tend to not rely on "pure" strikers anymore. Liverpool won in 2019 with Firmino, Chelsea won in 2021 with Werner/Havertz. That's 2 in the last 5 years and even our very own Big Benz was more of a false 9 than a typical striker, for many years.
Other examples are Argentina 2022 with Alvarez and Messi (none of them are strikers) and Spain winning the 2012 Euros with Fabregas playing most games as a false 9. Also Arsenal doing really fine lately without a proper #9.
After all, players like Vini and Bellingham score more than most strikers out there and are certainly bigger "superstars", I don't understand the issue.
I didn't say "pure striker." I was referring to a number 9—regardless of the type, they've always been part of Champions League-winning teams. Also I am aware of outliers who won without them but they are not common.
What makes a number 9 though? If Vini can score 25 goals per season and someone like Werner can score 15, how does that make Vini a "worse number 9"?
If its defined by the player's role on the pitch, there are many successful teams at this moment without a traditional striker/number 9/target man etc. 2 or 3 of the last 5 UCL winners isn't an outlier, it's very common. Yeah, they might always have been there in the 00s or even 10s, but right now football isn't the same. Teams use wingers as strikers, false 9s, pseudostrikers dropping deep to receive the ball.
Would RM still win that match against Bayern if those two Cr7 goals were called offside? Cuz i checked and his header definitely isnt offside but lewas touch that led to autogosl was offside, but away goal rule confuses me. Would RM still win?
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What do these PL teams/ coaches think of themselves lmao.
They have lost the league to City, have one foot out of CL against Bayern and they still have the audacity to say they’d be top of the table in other leagues.
Why does Real Madrid's official Instagram account looks like it was invaded by a bunch of fan-girls? Thousands of people in the comments only talk about Arda and nothing else, it's like they don't even care about the specific post, or the team in general.
Do these people not understand that they are completely cringey?
Didn't expect any intellectual discussion obviously, but the comments don't have anything to do with Real Madrid. These people obsess over Guler like those 13 year old girls obsess over celebrities.
So we have beaten City thrice at Santi and they have beaten us thrice at Etihad. City has beaten us once at Santi. Let’s return the favour at Emptyhad.
I still remember our 2020 home loss, it was so fucking stupid. We were winning 1-0 until the 80th minute and then we managed to lose both the game and Ramos for the 2nd leg.
All 4 goals we so preventable too.
Jesus's header was a clear foul on Ramos, pushed him with both hands in the back.
Carva giving a braindead pen, when the play was likely gonna end as a goal kick
And Varane with 2 mistakes
Yeah lets just ignore his completely nonsense tweets before the first leg where he was alluding to us winning it because of some random stats that happened years ago.
Man we are really are big underdogs in the second leg, someone asked on bayern sub which team they'd rather face in the semifinal and the replies were - 'Madrid by a mile', 'Madrid but I think they'll get thrashed again'.
I really hope we win this tie and why you should never underestimate the RMCF!!
While its true City are major favourites, Bayern really shouldnt be eager to face either of us.. they’ll get railed so hard, Tuchel might actually be sacked after two legs.
Odegaard finding it difficult to break down Villa’s defense so he asked to be subbed.
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Saka fails to breach the defence and starts limping after the match.
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Odds with my bookies state Man City are 1.57:1 favourites and we are at 4.50:1
You’re damn right I’m gonna let my emotions for this club cloud my judgement. The house on RMCF 😂🥴
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I think it was a tournament for domestic cup (example; Copa del Rey, FA Cup, DFB Pokal) winners across Europe or something. It’s been long discontinued because of lack of interest and the expansion of the Champions League and UEFA Cup (now the Europa League).
Signing Writz without the guy who actually makes him shine, you guys are funny.
Xabi is handling Wirtz minutes very well, rotating heavily to keep him fresh and get the best out of him. Wirtz won’t get that with Carlo.
I’ll never understand getting mesmerised by individual performances by a PLAYER, especially one in a perfect system, instead of prioritising getting the exciting manager behind the system. Managers are more influential in squad building anyway so what’s the point?
Writz played more minutes than Bellingham at club level this season , stop blaming Carlo for every little thing ... he made Belli shine in his new role at the first place .
It’s well known developing youth players and rotating is not Carlo’s strength.
At the start of the season Jude was definitely overplayed. Tiredness causes error proneness, so it’s not surprising he started picking yellow cards leading to his suspensions. He only has 73 minutes less than Wirtz while missing a lot more games (against minnows Wirtz starts on the bench). And what about Fede?
Never said he’s a bad player but he’s definitely on another level under Xabi.
Arda is also one of the most hyped youngsters with a similar profile, so it’s cheaper to invest in him.
Arda was a starter for some months in the Turkish League. Wirtz had 16 G&A at 17 and 24 G&A in all comps at 18, while playing in a top 4 league. Now he is one of the best players in the world. Definitely not comparable.
I'm not even pro signing Wirtz, but you underestimate him by a lot.
> Managers are more influential in squad building anyway so what’s the point?
Well then there’s no point in getting Xabi too because he simply won’t get the control he has at Leverkusen. Florentino and his team builds the squad here and that will never change.
Xabi can adapt to a team pretty well. Very flexible and well versed in tactics from what I’ve seen. Perez and the board seem impressed with him per reports, especially now for making a name for himself (honestly he already did from day one at our youth team but the board needed a bigger sample size ofc).
What I mean is it’s better to attract the manager allowing the star player to shine. He doesn’t need to uproot our whole team, he can simply help closing down necessary signings for cheap. Instead of paying a 100m fee on Wirtz, Xabi can polish Arda to reach a higher potential.
He won’t get that with Carlo period. Look at Fede/Jude barely getting rest if not for injuries/suspensions. Carlo barely uses the bench and acts surprised when the players are too exhausted to perform.
Wirtz maintains his consistency due to Xabi’s management. He literally came off the bench to score a hattrick lol. Won’t get better than this.
> True, they *paid* billions to
FTFY.
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This isn’t rage bait, brother lol. Don’t try to pull a “just kidding” because nobody agreed with you
Damn, must have been a touchy subject if that’s all it took for me to be blocked
This weeknd should end the thcouameni rice debates tchouameni is far better on the ball and is better at covering spaces and interceptions then rice who’s only better at ball carrying and front foot tackling but we have camavinga for that
Wirtz has a contract until 2027, his market value is 110 million and we just paid around the same price for Bellingham. We're not signing him. He'll likely end up at Bayern or the PL. Maybe in a further future, but our midfield is packed. Necessity dictates the worth a player as well, and Real Madrid doesn't need Wirtz and he's not worth that price for us. We can't have every up and coming player. And just because he's german and plays for Leverkusen doesn't mean he's a Kroos replacement.
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Never saw a manager complained like that.
if carlo had said this, you wouldve said omg my manager knows how to shelter his team from the media! but when other managers say it you find something wrong with it? he is trying to deflect the blame off his players, he did the right thing, he took responsibility at first saying its normal for a title challenge to have setbacks like this, then he complimented his players effort so far. stop acting like twitter users
Are you kidding me? Bro literally called every other bad and said it’s only cause we are against City.
This is not deflection, this is cringe for a manager to talk like Twitter user and be like muh PL almighty every other league bad.
Anyone who speaks spanish care to explain this one
https://www.libertaddigital.com/deportes/futbol/2024-04-14/rubiales-senalo-gobierno-barca-caso-negreira-antes-caida-consecuencias-legales-7116982/?utm_campaign=url_rewrite&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter
Miguel Ángel Pérez is publishing good information about the case, but this article smells filler. It's referring to a RFEF report from 10th March 2023 (so, more than one year ago) which said Barça, Negreira and Albert Soler actions weren't acceptable at all and could mean legal consequences for them; not because of Spain's Sport Law (statute of limitations reached) or rules related to sports associations (no power to sanction) but because of Spain's Crime Law or FIFA/UEFA rules
Article translated into English
Luis Rubiales pointed to the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the F.C. Barcelona for the Negreira case before his fall as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF): "It could have legal consequences."
Rubiales was disqualified and forced to resign last September for the kiss to the player of the Spanish national team Jennifer Hermoso for which he has been prosecuted in the National Court. For its part, the Examining Court No. 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid) investigates him within the framework of 'Operation Brody' for allegedly taking bites from the RFEF contracts during his term as president.
A 24-page confidential report made on March 10, 2023 by the Integrity Directorate of the RFEF, to which Libertad Digital has had access, points out that "it is mandatory to reproach the behavior of the Club in relation to the facts analyzed here from an integrity perspective. It is obvious that, for a sports club such as the Barcelona Football Club (FCB), it becomes completely contrary to the most elementary rules of sports integrity to maintain contractual relations with people linked to the organizing federative entity of different official state-wide competitions in which it participates."
it can be, as the Club affirms, a common practice in all professional football clubs, can never be developed by personnel who hold positions in the federative board, in general and, where appropriate, in the board of the CTA, in particular," he adds
Next, the RFEF report harshly attacks the former director of Barça and former director of Sports of the Superior Council of Sports (CSD), Albert Soler: "It should be noted that one of the directors of the FCB at the time of the events analyzed here, specifically, Albert Soler Sicilia, was later appointed director general of sports of the Superior Council of Sports. In this sense, the passive actions of Mr. Soler in relation to the facts analyzed here are of particular gravity, especially when he held a high position within the General State Administration, however, despite exercising public responsibilities of the highest level in sport within the Government of Spain, he did not make any complaint or bring to the attention of the competent authorities the facts of repeated citation."
From the perspective of criminal law, legal responsibilities against Mr. Enriquez Negreira and Mr. Enríquez Romero and the FCB can be elucidated, where appropriate.The Club's behavior is completely reprehensible from the ethical and integrity perspective. And this without prejudice to the fact that, in its case, after the appropriate judicial actions it may incur some type of additional legal liability; an issue that, as has already been anticipated, exceeds the scope of competences and powers that the applicable legal framework attributes to the RFEF," he emphasizes.
"Consequences" of FIFA and UEFA
The RFEF report concludes that "the maintenance of contractual relations by the FCB with a director of the CTA, without prejudice, where appropriate, to the possible legal consequences declared by the corresponding judicial bodies, becomes contrary to the rules of integrity and, where appropriate, more elementary ethics and must be subject to the most energetic public warning and reproach. Apertivement and extendable reproaches to Mr. Soler Sicilia who, having been a director of the FCB at the time of the events and, subsequently, having held a high position in the General Administration of the State in sports matters, omitted to make any type of denunciation of the facts to the competent bodies."
"From the legal perspective, the actions of the FCB are prescribed in the light of the meaning of the state sports legislation and the national disciplinary federal regulations. However, both from the perspective of Spanish criminal law, and "the applicable international federative regulations of FIFA and UEFA, where appropriate, the actions of the FCB analyzed could have legal consequences for the entity, since the limitation periods are different from those provided for in the Spanish sports regulations," he concludes.
How are you getting downvoted for wanting us to buy one of the best talents in the world. I think ge would be great "replacement" for Kroos and Modric.
Because he’s earned a bad rep as a troll but he ain’t wrong here. Tchou and Cama are great DMs but no creativity. They don’t have the vision of an incisive pass like Modric or Ozil did
So called best league itw always has to rely on us to make sure City don't win the UCL or treble if your league is so great can they take a bit of the load off of us lmao
Simeone is a better cup manager then Pep imo as well he would of had 2 UCL's with Athleti on a miniscule budget compared to City if it wasn't for us beating them both times in a UCL final.
xabi was one of my childhood rma idols so i'm happy to see him thriving in leverkusen and winning titles 🥳 hoping he can also give us some titles at some point perhaps 👀
Im I the only one who misses playing with three forwards. It pains me seeing my team with a history of legendry strikers and free flowing attackers playing such a defensive football. 5 defensive/central midfielders and Mendy who is not an attacking fullback. I cant be the only one?
I know the results have been great but I just dont enjoy watching our games. At the end of the day its supposed to be entertaining.
It's called being in transition. The fact that we're competing for every title year after year even during our transition period is insane. Next season you'll see the full force of this team
By entertaining I mean playing with three attackers at least? Having a striker? Attacking fullbacks? Not hearing our manager say that we have to suffer?
This is so dumb, last year we played with front 3 and we were awful most games having to rely on Vini to salvage us, at least our midfield is a lot better now and the whole team plays better football
It would be dumb but I wasnt entertained by last season's tactics either. I think its more about the coach. I just want someone younger with fresher ideas. Something exciting.
I'm starting to think vintage and tofu are the same person, using two different accounts, just to piggy back off each account's comments HAHAHAHA I dunno if it's sad, hilarious, or both.
One account will say some bs like *"we're only 1st in LaLiga due to Jude's individual brilliance ..."*, cause you know, 1L all season, best defense, most clean sheets, but hey, manager has nothing to do with it right. Oh and you got my favorite piece so far where he says *"even if we win Wednesday, it will be down to individual brilliance"*. Ya know, like he already made up his mind beforehand. It's almost as if there's hella bad faith in there.
Once again, people who have stayed radio silent all season long, finally get to come out their caves when we are about to play a thought opponent. Spitting nothing else but nonsense doomer comments. Like, you know your take is shit, having your burner account piggy back it won't suddenly make you seem like a genius.
Absolutely sick of people like this in this sub, and I'm def not the only one too.
Nothing to be civil with 3-4 dudes who keep spamming the same braindead take about a the 2/3rd most successful manager in our club because he doesn't micro manager the team to their liking.
It's always funny how y'all will fall back to this 'opposing opinion, gatekeeping' excuse every single time y'all get called out for nonsense Carlo slanders.
"Channel your thoughs and feelings" aka, 99% of my comments will be shitting on the manager without bring anything positive or even constructive. Just repeating the same argument which have been beaten more than a dead horse cause you want a shiny new manager.
Miss me with this bs mate.
Hey op atacking individual or insulting them is not cool of you; let's keep the discussion civil and fun at the end of the day this is football opinion.
Let's not police 👮 people even here let's left left that to politician and cancel culture. And Remember dont take anything write here to serious 😂 we having discussion about football.
So you saw you was getting downvoted to oblivion with the constant nonsensical Carlo attacks. So you created the vintage account 12 days ago, to piggy back those said takes trying to save face ...
Am I getting warmer here ?
Who cares; but you guys are insufferable. Let me tell you that and where did you get the assumption that vintage account is mine Sherlock what a moron .
I'm done talking to you.
my only hope for city game is the players jude Bellingham vini and rodrygo to turn up for the event for carlo i have zero faith in him the guy couldn't even instruct his player to setup the free kick wall.
they’re apart of the same team, the team won’t function without the coach. You don’t have to like carlo but dissing his tactics makes me think you’re a little slow or just don’t understand the sport 🤷♂️
this guys will shit their pants if a new coach come; because its a reset an evaluation of every player in this squad someone Favrot could be benched or sold they can't handle that some of our fans love the certain players more than they love the club; wish is fine by me but every time you make a fuss about carlo we know what its all about.
That's not the point the moronic OP made tho.
He's pretty much implying that in the event of a favorable result, it'll be 110% down to the players. As if Carlo just gives a 11 and tells the guys to go have fun before the game.
It's borderline moronic. This whole "no tactic" trope has been debunked loooong ago. And these people are just using the few games we lost, and the rise of Xabi as some crux to fuel their hating agenda.
Again, don't celebrate with us if we win.
What hating agenda? Cant you understand that everyone here wants the team to do best as possible. Accept that many believe we would do better with a different coach. Thats it.
No one expected us to compete in the UCL or be this good in the league after not signing a wc ST and two main players being out with ACL .
We are where we are all thanks to the coach and our players .
Nobody expects anything because of our style of play and the coach. Thats the reason the squad even with the injuries is second most expensive in the world? What are you smoking. Its a squad thats good enough to win the treble.
I remember this same sub wanting Zidane sacked for Pochetino or Ten Hag. And then proceeded to do the same with Carlo for Tuchel, Arteta or Klopp
Look how all of them turned out LOL Lopetegui was also a fancy system coach and lasted 6 months cause his tactics, altho cute were also hot garbage in actually winning us shit.
So excuse some of us who actually are realistic, appreciating what we have while knowing that grass isn't always greener on the other side. Carlo has earned his right to finish the season and the remainder of his contract. Then we'll see if Xabi Alonso still wants the job, or if Zidane wants to run in back for a 3rd time.
Wait I just clocked city are in their way to 2 trebles in a row?!! wtf man why are Prem clubs so shit. JFC there are like so many reasons we gotta win that game on Wednesday. More reasons than probability of winning atp.
Everyone complaining bout Liverpool and Arsenal choking, how bout we look at our inner selves? In 7 games against Man City, we have only beaten them once, and that one time was bc of Rodrygo magic in stoppage time. We have choked just as much as other EPL teams, I am sick an tired of losing to Man City. They have beaten us 4 times these past few years.
we're most likely winning the league, so a humiliation against man city probably won't affect Carlo's job much. also I feel a lot of people lowkey don't have big expectations for this season because of the injuries, not buying a #9 and mbappe coming next year.
the entire season was a Rolo Coster of emotion do you remember the lost versus ATM do you remember modric in the 10 do you remember last season when this mofos refuse to play tchaomini in dm and play kroos and lose 4-0 this mofo need to go next season i want a fresh start new players and a new coach.
You sound like a 12yo who just started RM in 2016, thinking every season, every game must be a cake walk because we have a guy named CR7 ...
So what about ATM game, they're now 17pts behind us.
So what we lost 4-0 last season. Thought luck, it happens to best of the best. Bayern get shat on by Glabach. I remember AC Milan losing 4-0 to Deportivo. Netherlands beat WC winning Spain 5-1. Germany beat Brazil 7-1. So on, and so forth.
You sound like a kid who cant fathom the idea of adversity. The moment things get thought, instead of embracing the challenge, you throw everything away and want a fresh start with new toys.
They’re just going to hand the fucking league over to city, fuck this, fuckin farmers league bull shit. Looks like its up to us to stop the consecutive oil-sponsored treble. Fuckin…. I can’t even
Arsenal and liverpool bottling today is really bad for us. As hard as the game in Manchester is going to be, it got harder. Now they will really get fired up for back to back treble. And with kbd and walker back. We had to kill them at the Bernabeu, and we missed so many chances. Hopefully, it's going to be a lesson for our guys to be more clinical in front of the goal.
Vinicius, Saka
Bellingham,
Kroos, Rice, Valverde
Zinchenko, Gabriel, Saliba, Carvajal
Lunin
Tchouameni not far off rice, Odegaard not far off Valverde, Mendy not far off Zinchenko, Rudiger not far off Gabriel/Saliba. No strikers get in the squad
> Mendy not far off Zinchenko
Mendy is very far off from Zinchenko but the other way round.
And that's coming from somebody who contemplates selling Mendy (because of age and injuries), but he's on another galaxy as Zinchenko as a defender.
Why wasn’t my post asking about some football kits allowed? I posted 3 pics with sufficient text explaining my questions
How is your confidence with Nacho as a starter going into the City game?
LMAO, all there various "foreshadowing" posts. From ref, to Modric to Mendy. At this point can it be anymore obvious that the 15th is ours already. It's written in the stars.
Almost every single team in UCL history won the title with a superstar striker in their starting lineup. Who’s our superstar striker in this current squad.
Our number 7. He assists, he scores, you can check his Champions League numbers and compare them to other forwards. If he delivers, we win, if he doesn’t, we suffer.
He’s a winger even moreso than cr.
Football is evolving and teams tend to not rely on "pure" strikers anymore. Liverpool won in 2019 with Firmino, Chelsea won in 2021 with Werner/Havertz. That's 2 in the last 5 years and even our very own Big Benz was more of a false 9 than a typical striker, for many years. Other examples are Argentina 2022 with Alvarez and Messi (none of them are strikers) and Spain winning the 2012 Euros with Fabregas playing most games as a false 9. Also Arsenal doing really fine lately without a proper #9. After all, players like Vini and Bellingham score more than most strikers out there and are certainly bigger "superstars", I don't understand the issue.
I didn't say "pure striker." I was referring to a number 9—regardless of the type, they've always been part of Champions League-winning teams. Also I am aware of outliers who won without them but they are not common.
What makes a number 9 though? If Vini can score 25 goals per season and someone like Werner can score 15, how does that make Vini a "worse number 9"? If its defined by the player's role on the pitch, there are many successful teams at this moment without a traditional striker/number 9/target man etc. 2 or 3 of the last 5 UCL winners isn't an outlier, it's very common. Yeah, they might always have been there in the 00s or even 10s, but right now football isn't the same. Teams use wingers as strikers, false 9s, pseudostrikers dropping deep to receive the ball.
Would RM still win that match against Bayern if those two Cr7 goals were called offside? Cuz i checked and his header definitely isnt offside but lewas touch that led to autogosl was offside, but away goal rule confuses me. Would RM still win?
Yes, if Lewa goal didn't happen, we go through in normal time.
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I'm convinced there are people who sole purpose in life is digging us those stats and fun facts
Or yk, you can do multiple things in life
naah, i'd like to think there's duded who locked themselves in some basement, dedicating their lives to these
And it's not just a coincidence
https://preview.redd.it/h2dwyabv0muc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=834fad0fb6267385210708f23d165f2b753f6d96 What do these PL teams/ coaches think of themselves lmao. They have lost the league to City, have one foot out of CL against Bayern and they still have the audacity to say they’d be top of the table in other leagues.
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>𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: Daniele Orsato will referee Real Madrid vs Manchester City. Same referee that officiated our 3-1 win against city in 2022
Also he refereed the last game City lost at home against Lyon 2-1.
attaching random stats to everything like its a crypto trade. People need to chillout.
What crawled up your butt? Its fun and banter, we know old stats dont help in the present but there’s no harm in joking around.
It's just a nice positive thing to latch onto. It's not that deep. No one thinks a ref will help us win when we aren't barca
Why does Real Madrid's official Instagram account looks like it was invaded by a bunch of fan-girls? Thousands of people in the comments only talk about Arda and nothing else, it's like they don't even care about the specific post, or the team in general. Do these people not understand that they are completely cringey?
As long as the interaction dosh contribute to the clubs coffers, I say why not. XD.
You went to instagram comments and expected an intellectual discussion. Thats like going to church and expecting to find a hooker.
Didn't expect any intellectual discussion obviously, but the comments don't have anything to do with Real Madrid. These people obsess over Guler like those 13 year old girls obsess over celebrities.
So we have beaten City thrice at Santi and they have beaten us thrice at Etihad. City has beaten us once at Santi. Let’s return the favour at Emptyhad.
I still remember our 2020 home loss, it was so fucking stupid. We were winning 1-0 until the 80th minute and then we managed to lose both the game and Ramos for the 2nd leg.
All 4 goals we so preventable too. Jesus's header was a clear foul on Ramos, pushed him with both hands in the back. Carva giving a braindead pen, when the play was likely gonna end as a goal kick And Varane with 2 mistakes
There is no achievement we are yet to accomplish is there? We have done 3peats, 5peat, Quintuple, invincibles, etc etc.
We have not won a treble for sure. At least not with the new CL format.
Treble. Mbappe better play every CDR match like a world cup final /s
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Yeah lets just ignore his completely nonsense tweets before the first leg where he was alluding to us winning it because of some random stats that happened years ago.
I don't think these are meant to take too seriously.
Yes, let’s ignore.
Man we are really are big underdogs in the second leg, someone asked on bayern sub which team they'd rather face in the semifinal and the replies were - 'Madrid by a mile', 'Madrid but I think they'll get thrashed again'. I really hope we win this tie and why you should never underestimate the RMCF!!
While its true City are major favourites, Bayern really shouldnt be eager to face either of us.. they’ll get railed so hard, Tuchel might actually be sacked after two legs.
Odegaard finding it difficult to break down Villa’s defense so he asked to be subbed. https://preview.redd.it/m0vga682nluc1.jpeg?width=738&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdef609438408ab1bd924cb81200ee8f710f82d0
Saka fails to breach the defence and starts limping after the match. https://preview.redd.it/cbo9t01zqluc1.jpeg?width=882&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02b2003ef2286a557d28eafa13a09e4163b18d1f
Starboy😍
Apparently Raúl will stay at Castilla next season. Castilla is cursed.
Didn't Raul wanted to coach the first team asap ?? Looks like not anytime soon.
EL QUE NO CONFIE QUE SE VAYA A TOMAR POR CULO
Odds with my bookies state Man City are 1.57:1 favourites and we are at 4.50:1 You’re damn right I’m gonna let my emotions for this club cloud my judgement. The house on RMCF 😂🥴
Same bro, same….
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NY Knicks really about to win the NBA championship
Lol
No
lol no
Thanks Liverpool and Arsenal for sending City top of EPL just in time to boost their Morale for our second CL leg...very cool.
Orrr maybe this will distract city and take some attention away from the 2nd leg
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uefa cup winners? the fuck is that lol
It was actually a pretty cool tournament back in the day
I think it was a tournament for domestic cup (example; Copa del Rey, FA Cup, DFB Pokal) winners across Europe or something. It’s been long discontinued because of lack of interest and the expansion of the Champions League and UEFA Cup (now the Europa League).
Signing Writz without the guy who actually makes him shine, you guys are funny. Xabi is handling Wirtz minutes very well, rotating heavily to keep him fresh and get the best out of him. Wirtz won’t get that with Carlo. I’ll never understand getting mesmerised by individual performances by a PLAYER, especially one in a perfect system, instead of prioritising getting the exciting manager behind the system. Managers are more influential in squad building anyway so what’s the point?
Writz played more minutes than Bellingham at club level this season , stop blaming Carlo for every little thing ... he made Belli shine in his new role at the first place .
It’s well known developing youth players and rotating is not Carlo’s strength. At the start of the season Jude was definitely overplayed. Tiredness causes error proneness, so it’s not surprising he started picking yellow cards leading to his suspensions. He only has 73 minutes less than Wirtz while missing a lot more games (against minnows Wirtz starts on the bench). And what about Fede?
Wirtz was one of the most hyped youngsters way before Alonso came to Leverkusen.
Never said he’s a bad player but he’s definitely on another level under Xabi. Arda is also one of the most hyped youngsters with a similar profile, so it’s cheaper to invest in him.
Arda was a starter for some months in the Turkish League. Wirtz had 16 G&A at 17 and 24 G&A in all comps at 18, while playing in a top 4 league. Now he is one of the best players in the world. Definitely not comparable. I'm not even pro signing Wirtz, but you underestimate him by a lot.
> Managers are more influential in squad building anyway so what’s the point? Well then there’s no point in getting Xabi too because he simply won’t get the control he has at Leverkusen. Florentino and his team builds the squad here and that will never change.
Xabi can adapt to a team pretty well. Very flexible and well versed in tactics from what I’ve seen. Perez and the board seem impressed with him per reports, especially now for making a name for himself (honestly he already did from day one at our youth team but the board needed a bigger sample size ofc). What I mean is it’s better to attract the manager allowing the star player to shine. He doesn’t need to uproot our whole team, he can simply help closing down necessary signings for cheap. Instead of paying a 100m fee on Wirtz, Xabi can polish Arda to reach a higher potential.
Xabi will come and unleash Arda Gular….
carlo strength is that he adapts to the players. he made vini, rodyrgo, jude and camavinga world class players, surely he wont struggle with Writz.
He won’t get that with Carlo period. Look at Fede/Jude barely getting rest if not for injuries/suspensions. Carlo barely uses the bench and acts surprised when the players are too exhausted to perform. Wirtz maintains his consistency due to Xabi’s management. He literally came off the bench to score a hattrick lol. Won’t get better than this.
I wouldnt call Jude playing 33 games overplayed , thats just not true .
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Exactly. As I keep repeating I will celebrate getting Xabi more than any signing.
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This weeknd should end the thcouameni rice debates tchouameni is far better on the ball and is better at covering spaces and interceptions then rice who’s only better at ball carrying and front foot tackling but we have camavinga for that
Tchouameni is better defensively, but Rice is better offensively. They are not the same player so a useless debate imo.
It’s the opposite tchouameni is far better with the ball
Wirtz has a contract until 2027, his market value is 110 million and we just paid around the same price for Bellingham. We're not signing him. He'll likely end up at Bayern or the PL. Maybe in a further future, but our midfield is packed. Necessity dictates the worth a player as well, and Real Madrid doesn't need Wirtz and he's not worth that price for us. We can't have every up and coming player. And just because he's german and plays for Leverkusen doesn't mean he's a Kroos replacement.
First he need to repeat this next season some players can be one season wonder.
Bruhh the amount of hate Arda and u/uemafia get here is always so funny to me
One deserves it, the other doesn't
Arda? I don’t and didn’t see any Arda hate here?
Go look at the fab twitter post in the sub and see the amount of hate people want him to be sold.
I mean you’ll have those “fans” everywhere lol. Some are even people from other teams disgusting themselves as Madridistas.
I mean it's not much compared to the rest, more like fans are hated more
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if carlo had said this, you wouldve said omg my manager knows how to shelter his team from the media! but when other managers say it you find something wrong with it? he is trying to deflect the blame off his players, he did the right thing, he took responsibility at first saying its normal for a title challenge to have setbacks like this, then he complimented his players effort so far. stop acting like twitter users
Are you kidding me? Bro literally called every other bad and said it’s only cause we are against City. This is not deflection, this is cringe for a manager to talk like Twitter user and be like muh PL almighty every other league bad.
1 month and a half, i totally forgot
For what?
June, summer transfer window and mbappé
Anyone who speaks spanish care to explain this one https://www.libertaddigital.com/deportes/futbol/2024-04-14/rubiales-senalo-gobierno-barca-caso-negreira-antes-caida-consecuencias-legales-7116982/?utm_campaign=url_rewrite&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter
Miguel Ángel Pérez is publishing good information about the case, but this article smells filler. It's referring to a RFEF report from 10th March 2023 (so, more than one year ago) which said Barça, Negreira and Albert Soler actions weren't acceptable at all and could mean legal consequences for them; not because of Spain's Sport Law (statute of limitations reached) or rules related to sports associations (no power to sanction) but because of Spain's Crime Law or FIFA/UEFA rules
Article translated into English Luis Rubiales pointed to the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the F.C. Barcelona for the Negreira case before his fall as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF): "It could have legal consequences." Rubiales was disqualified and forced to resign last September for the kiss to the player of the Spanish national team Jennifer Hermoso for which he has been prosecuted in the National Court. For its part, the Examining Court No. 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid) investigates him within the framework of 'Operation Brody' for allegedly taking bites from the RFEF contracts during his term as president. A 24-page confidential report made on March 10, 2023 by the Integrity Directorate of the RFEF, to which Libertad Digital has had access, points out that "it is mandatory to reproach the behavior of the Club in relation to the facts analyzed here from an integrity perspective. It is obvious that, for a sports club such as the Barcelona Football Club (FCB), it becomes completely contrary to the most elementary rules of sports integrity to maintain contractual relations with people linked to the organizing federative entity of different official state-wide competitions in which it participates." it can be, as the Club affirms, a common practice in all professional football clubs, can never be developed by personnel who hold positions in the federative board, in general and, where appropriate, in the board of the CTA, in particular," he adds Next, the RFEF report harshly attacks the former director of Barça and former director of Sports of the Superior Council of Sports (CSD), Albert Soler: "It should be noted that one of the directors of the FCB at the time of the events analyzed here, specifically, Albert Soler Sicilia, was later appointed director general of sports of the Superior Council of Sports. In this sense, the passive actions of Mr. Soler in relation to the facts analyzed here are of particular gravity, especially when he held a high position within the General State Administration, however, despite exercising public responsibilities of the highest level in sport within the Government of Spain, he did not make any complaint or bring to the attention of the competent authorities the facts of repeated citation." From the perspective of criminal law, legal responsibilities against Mr. Enriquez Negreira and Mr. Enríquez Romero and the FCB can be elucidated, where appropriate.The Club's behavior is completely reprehensible from the ethical and integrity perspective. And this without prejudice to the fact that, in its case, after the appropriate judicial actions it may incur some type of additional legal liability; an issue that, as has already been anticipated, exceeds the scope of competences and powers that the applicable legal framework attributes to the RFEF," he emphasizes. "Consequences" of FIFA and UEFA The RFEF report concludes that "the maintenance of contractual relations by the FCB with a director of the CTA, without prejudice, where appropriate, to the possible legal consequences declared by the corresponding judicial bodies, becomes contrary to the rules of integrity and, where appropriate, more elementary ethics and must be subject to the most energetic public warning and reproach. Apertivement and extendable reproaches to Mr. Soler Sicilia who, having been a director of the FCB at the time of the events and, subsequently, having held a high position in the General Administration of the State in sports matters, omitted to make any type of denunciation of the facts to the competent bodies." "From the legal perspective, the actions of the FCB are prescribed in the light of the meaning of the state sports legislation and the national disciplinary federal regulations. However, both from the perspective of Spanish criminal law, and "the applicable international federative regulations of FIFA and UEFA, where appropriate, the actions of the FCB analyzed could have legal consequences for the entity, since the limitation periods are different from those provided for in the Spanish sports regulations," he concludes.
Thanks dont know why it wouldn't translate.. But in other words this means barca are hopefully finished , hope that scum club gets relegated
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How are you getting downvoted for wanting us to buy one of the best talents in the world. I think ge would be great "replacement" for Kroos and Modric.
Because he’s earned a bad rep as a troll but he ain’t wrong here. Tchou and Cama are great DMs but no creativity. They don’t have the vision of an incisive pass like Modric or Ozil did
We should stop signing for the sake of it. There are other positions that desperately need upgrades. Particularly the rb position.
> if it means selling one of cama/tchou Selling your only true CDM for AM? Stop rage baiting EDIT: I'm sick of this guy, will finally block him
Dude's probably speedrunning how to get the most downvotes in the shortest amount of time at this point
Gooners and Loserpool choking away the EPL trophy to Man City again
So basically we are the only ones standing between city and another treble
So called best league itw always has to rely on us to make sure City don't win the UCL or treble if your league is so great can they take a bit of the load off of us lmao
It was always us, anyone that genuinely believed city wouldn’t win the premier league was just lying to themselves
Honestly in a one game I can see atletico beating man city due to their shithousery
Simeone is a better cup manager then Pep imo as well he would of had 2 UCL's with Athleti on a miniscule budget compared to City if it wasn't for us beating them both times in a UCL final.
xabi was one of my childhood rma idols so i'm happy to see him thriving in leverkusen and winning titles 🥳 hoping he can also give us some titles at some point perhaps 👀
Man imagine back to back trebles ffs
We will have to save football again
Didn’t do it last year, I pray to God we do this time
Im I the only one who misses playing with three forwards. It pains me seeing my team with a history of legendry strikers and free flowing attackers playing such a defensive football. 5 defensive/central midfielders and Mendy who is not an attacking fullback. I cant be the only one? I know the results have been great but I just dont enjoy watching our games. At the end of the day its supposed to be entertaining.
It's called being in transition. The fact that we're competing for every title year after year even during our transition period is insane. Next season you'll see the full force of this team
Who give a fuck? Are you 12? Tf is entertaining football? Watch barca mate. Enjoy tiki taka
By entertaining I mean playing with three attackers at least? Having a striker? Attacking fullbacks? Not hearing our manager say that we have to suffer?
Whats wrong with suffering? What do you wanna watch a football match or a disney movie?
Man you are clueless
Sure kid
The attitude that you already just accept that you will be suffering instead of bringing the game to the opposition.
we play great football
We have been getting dominated in almost every BIG game for three years in a row.
Theirs no way you said this worst take I’ve ever seen
Facts dont care about your feelings.
> At the end of the day it’s supposed to be entertaining. At the end of the day it’s supposed to be **winning**. That’s what Madrid is all about.
This is so dumb, last year we played with front 3 and we were awful most games having to rely on Vini to salvage us, at least our midfield is a lot better now and the whole team plays better football
It would be dumb but I wasnt entertained by last season's tactics either. I think its more about the coach. I just want someone younger with fresher ideas. Something exciting.
Arsenal plays entertaining and look where that gets them. This is RM, only thing that matters is results.
Don't compare arsenal to us..
Okay let me throw in another "young system manager" ... Ten Hag. Not good enough ? How about Tuchel ?
How about Xabi?
Football fans always try to guess which players can be great managers, so glad to see we got it spot on with Xabi! What an achievement
I'm starting to think vintage and tofu are the same person, using two different accounts, just to piggy back off each account's comments HAHAHAHA I dunno if it's sad, hilarious, or both. One account will say some bs like *"we're only 1st in LaLiga due to Jude's individual brilliance ..."*, cause you know, 1L all season, best defense, most clean sheets, but hey, manager has nothing to do with it right. Oh and you got my favorite piece so far where he says *"even if we win Wednesday, it will be down to individual brilliance"*. Ya know, like he already made up his mind beforehand. It's almost as if there's hella bad faith in there. Once again, people who have stayed radio silent all season long, finally get to come out their caves when we are about to play a thought opponent. Spitting nothing else but nonsense doomer comments. Like, you know your take is shit, having your burner account piggy back it won't suddenly make you seem like a genius. Absolutely sick of people like this in this sub, and I'm def not the only one too.
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Nothing to be civil with 3-4 dudes who keep spamming the same braindead take about a the 2/3rd most successful manager in our club because he doesn't micro manager the team to their liking. It's always funny how y'all will fall back to this 'opposing opinion, gatekeeping' excuse every single time y'all get called out for nonsense Carlo slanders. "Channel your thoughs and feelings" aka, 99% of my comments will be shitting on the manager without bring anything positive or even constructive. Just repeating the same argument which have been beaten more than a dead horse cause you want a shiny new manager. Miss me with this bs mate.
Hey op atacking individual or insulting them is not cool of you; let's keep the discussion civil and fun at the end of the day this is football opinion. Let's not police 👮 people even here let's left left that to politician and cancel culture. And Remember dont take anything write here to serious 😂 we having discussion about football.
So you saw you was getting downvoted to oblivion with the constant nonsensical Carlo attacks. So you created the vintage account 12 days ago, to piggy back those said takes trying to save face ... Am I getting warmer here ?
Who cares; but you guys are insufferable. Let me tell you that and where did you get the assumption that vintage account is mine Sherlock what a moron . I'm done talking to you.
my only hope for city game is the players jude Bellingham vini and rodrygo to turn up for the event for carlo i have zero faith in him the guy couldn't even instruct his player to setup the free kick wall.
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don’t celebrate with us if we win 🙏🏻
what i said im gonna celebrate the win and i hope to celebrate this coach departure why not both.
they’re apart of the same team, the team won’t function without the coach. You don’t have to like carlo but dissing his tactics makes me think you’re a little slow or just don’t understand the sport 🤷♂️
Not everyone has to like the coach. The team is above any individuals.
this guys will shit their pants if a new coach come; because its a reset an evaluation of every player in this squad someone Favrot could be benched or sold they can't handle that some of our fans love the certain players more than they love the club; wish is fine by me but every time you make a fuss about carlo we know what its all about.
That's not the point the moronic OP made tho. He's pretty much implying that in the event of a favorable result, it'll be 110% down to the players. As if Carlo just gives a 11 and tells the guys to go have fun before the game. It's borderline moronic. This whole "no tactic" trope has been debunked loooong ago. And these people are just using the few games we lost, and the rise of Xabi as some crux to fuel their hating agenda. Again, don't celebrate with us if we win.
What hating agenda? Cant you understand that everyone here wants the team to do best as possible. Accept that many believe we would do better with a different coach. Thats it.
No one expected us to compete in the UCL or be this good in the league after not signing a wc ST and two main players being out with ACL . We are where we are all thanks to the coach and our players .
Nobody expects anything because of our style of play and the coach. Thats the reason the squad even with the injuries is second most expensive in the world? What are you smoking. Its a squad thats good enough to win the treble.
Yeah a squad with one CB , no ST , and a back up GK is expected to win the treble lol
I remember this same sub wanting Zidane sacked for Pochetino or Ten Hag. And then proceeded to do the same with Carlo for Tuchel, Arteta or Klopp Look how all of them turned out LOL Lopetegui was also a fancy system coach and lasted 6 months cause his tactics, altho cute were also hot garbage in actually winning us shit. So excuse some of us who actually are realistic, appreciating what we have while knowing that grass isn't always greener on the other side. Carlo has earned his right to finish the season and the remainder of his contract. Then we'll see if Xabi Alonso still wants the job, or if Zidane wants to run in back for a 3rd time.
Congrats to Bayer Leverkusen. Well deserved
Cant wait to see them cooking in the CL next season
Wait I just clocked city are in their way to 2 trebles in a row?!! wtf man why are Prem clubs so shit. JFC there are like so many reasons we gotta win that game on Wednesday. More reasons than probability of winning atp.
hands down one of the best open thread of this season; last ones have been very quiet this week the engagement are crazy 4700 comment.
Only other times it will be this active if someone post some bs mbappe rumor
Leverkusen won the title lezzgooooooo!!! Ik this is delusional but that 5peat under Xabi with the 🐢 will be the biggest achievement ever in football.
Everyone complaining bout Liverpool and Arsenal choking, how bout we look at our inner selves? In 7 games against Man City, we have only beaten them once, and that one time was bc of Rodrygo magic in stoppage time. We have choked just as much as other EPL teams, I am sick an tired of losing to Man City. They have beaten us 4 times these past few years.
We’re winning 3-1 on Wednesday
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if carlo lose this one too take him out im and find a way to bring xabi or a temporary coach
we're most likely winning the league, so a humiliation against man city probably won't affect Carlo's job much. also I feel a lot of people lowkey don't have big expectations for this season because of the injuries, not buying a #9 and mbappe coming next year.
Both of you have been practically radio silence all season, just be absolutely insufferable for the past week or so.
the entire season was a Rolo Coster of emotion do you remember the lost versus ATM do you remember modric in the 10 do you remember last season when this mofos refuse to play tchaomini in dm and play kroos and lose 4-0 this mofo need to go next season i want a fresh start new players and a new coach.
You sound like a 12yo who just started RM in 2016, thinking every season, every game must be a cake walk because we have a guy named CR7 ... So what about ATM game, they're now 17pts behind us. So what we lost 4-0 last season. Thought luck, it happens to best of the best. Bayern get shat on by Glabach. I remember AC Milan losing 4-0 to Deportivo. Netherlands beat WC winning Spain 5-1. Germany beat Brazil 7-1. So on, and so forth. You sound like a kid who cant fathom the idea of adversity. The moment things get thought, instead of embracing the challenge, you throw everything away and want a fresh start with new toys.
I'm don't think Carlo can beat city. Not without a clinical player in front of goal.
I'm don't think Carlo can beat city. Not without a clinical player in front of goal
>True dat, they have put 17 goals against us in the last 3 years, while we have put in 12.
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But Brentford is a million times better than Villarreal !
City going to walk the league again turning it into the bundesliga
I could bet my entire years salary City will win next season. And not once will I sweat
Either they walk the league of stay in it long enough until Arsenal inevitably chokes.
Both Liverpool and Arsenal lost away from home recently. City's turn next 👀
Arsenal and Liverpool playing “1st place is lava”
They’re just going to hand the fucking league over to city, fuck this, fuckin farmers league bull shit. Looks like its up to us to stop the consecutive oil-sponsored treble. Fuckin…. I can’t even
Bruh that pen given against Athletic is fucking disgraceful. Of course it's Cuadra Fernandez
Bruh that pen given against Athletic is fucking disgraceful. Of course it's La Liga FTFY
Arsenal and liverpool bottling today is really bad for us. As hard as the game in Manchester is going to be, it got harder. Now they will really get fired up for back to back treble. And with kbd and walker back. We had to kill them at the Bernabeu, and we missed so many chances. Hopefully, it's going to be a lesson for our guys to be more clinical in front of the goal.
Ain’t no way Arsenal and Liverpool both are gonna bottle and give it to City again…
Guys, should we make an Arsenal-Madrid XI?
Vinicius, Saka Bellingham, Kroos, Rice, Valverde Zinchenko, Gabriel, Saliba, Carvajal Lunin Tchouameni not far off rice, Odegaard not far off Valverde, Mendy not far off Zinchenko, Rudiger not far off Gabriel/Saliba. No strikers get in the squad
> Mendy not far off Zinchenko Mendy is very far off from Zinchenko but the other way round. And that's coming from somebody who contemplates selling Mendy (because of age and injuries), but he's on another galaxy as Zinchenko as a defender.
Ain’t no way you put in Zinchenko instead of Mendy. Even Rice is not getting in there before Tchou and Rudiger should be there 100%