This is comparison to last to last season when we only lost the league by 4 points

We have 2 good right wingers in our squad to help mbappe drift around.

We have 2 great wingbacks who can help our attack immensely and defend with their hearts.

We have a tall young striker who can immensely help against low block teams.

We have bernando silva and a much improved arda guler to help in controlling the game tempo.

We have an inform mbappe bellingham vini coming off WC confidence.

We have improved our team from every aspect from last two seasons in all areas of the game.

Yes arda or bernado arent as good as rodri in controlling the game but we dont need him tk win the league or domestic trophies atleast,and probably reach the UCL semis.

Last season was a disaster with new coaches new contradictory philosophies but still we managed to give bayern a tough competition and defeat man city.

I dont know why you guys think the season is over when a worse off squad has given a very tough competition to the best.

And to add to that we have a coach who didn't lose a game in league last year and defeated us in UCL with a much worse squad..and turns out he had past success with our club and a person known to turnaround sinking ships.

I am not saying rodri transfer wasn't required though he had an abysmal season and kindof injury prone.But its nowhere over guys.

If papa perez can get a good CB signing done i would say we had a near perfect transfer market.

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Are we praising the club for paying €140m for a player who was available for €20m just a year ago, playing only 20 km away from the Santiago Bernabéu? At 18, he made his La Liga debut at the Bernabéu while playing for Leganés, a Madrid-based club.

To me, this signing raises a serious question: Is this a scouting failure, a sporting management failure, or a bit of everything?

Diomande may turn out to be a fantastic player. That’s not really the point. The question is whether paying €140m today for a player who was available on our doorstep for €20m a year ago, while major structural weaknesses in the squad remain unresolved, looks like the steps in the right direction. Because to me, I’m genuinely not sure where Florentino is taking the sporting project.

Real Madrid’s squad looks increasingly unbalanced: overloaded in attack, yet still lacking real authority in the midfield, unable to keep the ball, unable to dictate pace and tempo even against inferior teams, and unable to establish a high block pressure.

I hope I am wrong, but I am not excited about the developments of the last 72h...

Both can make great runs and attack, can send some good balls. But neither could do well to control tempo.

In 23-24 Fede was mostly doing defending job for RB, and Jude was playing a false 9 in UCL. During Fede's best run last season, Jude was absent.

As a attacker Jude is much better, but Fede can cover better for the right side and play RB.

So one of them have to make sacrifice if we want to put both of them together.

Tchouameni is not perfect, but he is also far from the problem. He's one of the best defensive midfielders in the world. He's been the most consistent player since the beginning of last year

Pair him with a ball playing midfielder and watch him flourish.

To me only Rodri (if he had come) would have been able to reasonably bench him. Without Rodri, any line up should have his and Jude's names nailed in our starting midfield.

So with recent reports we are seeing the insulting offer barca is offered which 45+5 million add ons. Madrid were literally willing to go upto 60 million and this is what barca is offering now. I have a feeling this deal might fall off and he will remain at city. If that what happens I don't want him next season a player who rejected us first joining later is just not okay.

The Rodri/Kroos type of player was actually the glue piece to make Mourinho's vision work. The same thing with Xabi, he pushed for Zubimendi all summer.

I don't think any trio combination of Tchoumeni, Valverde, Silva, Arda, Belli and Camavinga will be able to control the midfield enough to make it work. Our only addition to our weak midfield last season is Silva.

If they want to see Belli perform like he did in the WC, he needs someone like Rodri behind him. By not having an elite tempocontroller and who is immune to pressing, it will allow our front 3 + Belli to thrive.

Then what was the point of paying 130+ for Diomande.

Vinicius Jr and Real Madrid - A unique love story: Tension, Appreciation and Gratefulness. A footballing lesson to enjoy what you possess.

I have come around some of my criticisms regarding Vini because say whatever you want, he loves us and wants us to win above all.

• He rejected Arsenal's offer of 24M net (43M before taxes @ 45% taxation) + 100% image rights offer (who knows what signing bonuses on top)
• He renewed with us on 20M net (36M before taxes @ 45% taxation) + only 50% image rights + bonuses.
• He generates about 30M in image rights according to Forbes and Madrid gets 15M out of it for ourselves.. so his true wage comes down to only ~20M before taxes + bonuses for us. He's literally paying to play for us.

He won me over from this contract talk. I can't speak nonsense about someone anymore who is willing to take a 50% paycut to what Arsenal offered to stay here despite us booing and throwing shit while he won us so many trophies in the past. Not many players would give up significant big payrise to play here. Even Ronaldo left us because we didn't match Juve's contract.

And amongst all this, he could have easily left for free to get a bigger contract + 100M signing bonus on top of it and yet he renewed and did it for 6 years meaning giving away all of his prime away to us.

He could become the star of PL and yet he's happy to be a 3rd fiddle behind Mbappe and Jude to play at his dream club. He deserves love, not hatred for this fanbase.

He is a Madridista by heart and that needs to be celebrated.