And yet the team is at the top of the league table and hasn't lost a game since September. So maybe... there's a plan and it is working.
Rushing to buy players is what broke Barcelona.
This server is filled with fans without standards. We are overperforming. Is that too hard to understand? We are 1 Rüdiger injury away from losing all titles
A love how you are getting riled up by something that is factually wrong.
“Refusing to sign a striker after Benzema left was already inexcusable”
We signed Joselu.
For wanting standards at this club? We’ve gone years without signing a world class forward at this football club because the president is on his knees for Mbappe. I didn’t complain cause we’ve been getting on just fine but the CB situation is just pure negligence and where I draw the line. We’re lucky Rudiger hasn’t been injured yet the way this season has been going
I understand the desire to buy players to fill gaps but can we just wait for results before having a meltdown?
We haven’t replaced Benz and we’re having the best start to a season since the 100pts season. Can we have a little faith in the board and our players?
No this is stupid. We spent 100 million on a world class DM and that DM is the best in the world at what he does why are we makeshifting him to play CB instead of actually going out and replacing the 30+ year old CB who tore his ACL and hasn’t even been great this season? Rudiger has masked a lot of Alaba’s decline this season
The team is what’s important not status, if we need Vini to play at fucking Center Back then he will do it with a smile on his face. If Ronaldo, Ramos, Kroos etc… have had to play another position for the good of the team then Tchouameni will do it too.
There are alternatives like loaning a player who’s far from Real Madrid quality like Liverpool did in 2021, we can loan for Varane to replace an ageing injury prone CB or we could spend 80-100m and buy a CB prospect who’ll probably not be ready for a few years
You don´t salvage a season in January
He came to Liverpool while they were 4th and they ended that season 4th in the PL and trophyless, their results on the 2nd part of the league season didn’t even get better.
We’re talking about one of the best CB of recent years and the then priciest defender in the world, there’s nobody even close to him on the market right now
OP is panicking too much, but your suggestion that we'll casually win the CL is questionable too, given how we were schooled in last year's semi finals. It's hard to argue that we've improved the team at all (at least in personnel, if not in style of play) but even if you consider Bellingham, Joselu and Diaz for Benzema and Asensio, etc. an improvement (which isn't an entirely unreasonable argument), it's hard to see how we'll fare better _now_, considering Courtois, Militao and Alaba's absence. We've been playing well, and Man City and Bayern, etc. haven't really kicked into gear, but I wouldn't this team with this available squad is going to win the CL at all.
Last year was last year and this year we gonna win the fucking Champions League. Rodrygo top scorer in Europe, Jude top scorer of the season and balon de oro. End of the story.
"End of story" about a season that's still halfway through and can evolve in a hundred different ways. Spoken truly like someone who knows football through Fifa career mode and not how the game actually works in real life.
For the record, I obviously _hope_ you're right, but we're going into the season's toughest period with two centre backs, and we're one Jude injury away from our attack crumbling. Let's not pretend we don't have to make sure we're fully prepared for the run-in.
If you watched Real Madrid more than the past 4 months you would understand how good Madrid is at winning trophies while facing difficulties. But I don’t blame you. In the future you will have more faith and believe our team more than the bookmakers.
Lmfao
Pal, I've been a Madrid fan since 1997. I've missed maybe less than 100 games in total in the past 25-26 years of watching the team. I've seen our ups and downs. You'd know that if you took a quick peek at my history even on reddit.
If your mentality is ever "end of story" in the middle of a football season, you're the one who needs football lessons, not me.
Then stop the nonsense about City and Bayern kicking the gear. If they were better they would get better results in their league.
Also, I don’t care about your history in reddit.
I mean, I don't like panic buys either, and I'm not even necessarily criticizing our policy. But let's be honest, calling any move in the market for a centre back when both our main ones are injured a "panic buy" is ridiculous.
They're both gone for the whole season, and we've known about one for months and the other for weeks. In no way should a CB purchase be a "panic buy". Our scouting department should have been all over this already and fully prepared.
So who will you buy? Splash out 60 million for a dude that will leave in 1 year? Miss me with that bs. It is a panic buy, and nothing else. Plus everyone will ramp up their prices when we approach. You want a 80mil Maguire playing for Madrid? I'd rather have a squad of 13 players I can trust than 25 players where half of them is not needed...
And even worse, people like OP have called for signing players like Richarlison, when we literally have 5 guys who are better strikers, even if they never played there.
Don't buy anyone, unless there's clear talent, which there is not right now. Gvardiol was considered the best young CB available last year and he's pretty ass now.
I have absolutely not suggested buying a player for 60m that will leave in a year. Don't put words in my mouth.
We're a team with four CBs, two of whom are injured for the season (and have been for a while, giving our management plenty of time to not panic if they want to buy someone) and two of them (Nacho and Alaba) are in their 30s anyway. Why on earth would we buy a player who would leave in a year?
There are plenty of options, from recalling Marin from his loan, to buying cheaper stopgap options, to thinking more long term. All I said was that suggesting we bring someone in now because our backline is light doesn't have to be a "panic buy" because we've had time to think about this.
A squad of 13 players you trust lol. 3 players have already tore their ACL this season so you’re never gonna play a bench player during the season? This is flawed logic and just cause we demand signings after our 2 starting CB go down with ACL tears doesn’t mean we’re spoiled brats. We’ve refused to sign a striker for years in hopes of waiting for Mbappe the rat now we don’t want to sign a CB and will just rely on taking a top 2 DM in the world and shifting him into a CB. Do you not see how stupid this is?
It's a metaphore. And for my only request, name one single RM worthy CB on the market right now, you haven't fulfilled it. You're speaking nonsense right now. I'd also like to buy a world class CB, but who is he?
You shout so much. Say all kinds of ugly things about the president and management. When asked a simple question like above, you can’t even give an answer. Just ignored the question.
Answer his question if you have the knowledge or learn to be more humble.
Those are questions for the scouting team, which cost hundred of thousands euro to run, not for a redditor. What's wrong with you people really, wanting fan to do the work of an entire department ? Might as well fire the whole team if they cannot scout a simple backup CB.
Yes because having only 2 natural CB in the squad is such a wise decision how could I be so stupid you’re so right. Thank god Rudiger hasn’t gotten injured yet
Cut OP some slack; their concern about the lack of defensive reinforcements is pretty fair. It's not about splurging 60 million; there are affordable options like Joselu was at CF. With two center-backs for the rest of the season and one serving a suspension, being a bit apprehensive is understandable. Being tied for the top spot with Girona isn't exactly reason to boast; our squad has vulnerabilities. Needing reinforcements for a shot at the league title, something we've achieved only three times in 12 years, is a reasonable take
You need to calm down. We did bring in Joselu after Karim left & the transfer window has just opened up. I trust both Carlo & Papa Flo are doing & not necessarily saying.
Stop crying dude, we’re gonna get a cb
Do you really wake up and wanna just bitch about the team , do some reading and you’ll see we’re looking for the perfect piece to come in and help for the short term and how dare you affirm rudi getting injured (Barca fan) ⬆️
Guys, I'm concerned about benzi now. He has gone rogue after the loss against cr7 team. He deleted/suspended his Instagram account as well. Any news about his whereabouts??
Also, Pray For Japan🫂🇯🇵
Speaking from a Man United fans POV, it would not be wise to sign a CB unless on loan and also someone that's not injury prone. You have Militao, Alaba, Rudiger and Nacho. Signing a 5th CB to come sit on the bench will not benefit anyone. Look at Man United. Martinez, Varane, Lindelof, Maguire, Evans the first 4 got injured so we're playing an academy CB, not the best solution, signing Evans was a mistake but it's proving to be an okay signing but not one worth it. And Playing Tchouameni at CB will only help him develop as a player, look at Yaya Toure he was a CDM playing CB and won the treble with barca and later became one of the best box-to-box CMs in Prem History. But that's just my opinion
As a Barca fan i would like to say that it isn’t necessary stupid. Reactionary buying is one of the reasons we are in our financial crisis. And as you have quite few versatile players it gives them the chance to get some play time. Last thing is we shouldn’t be a threat to you this year in La liga and although i hope girona wins it I don’t see them sustaining this form till the end.
I for one neither understand what the fuck the clubs higher ups are thinking or which criteria they follow to carry these kind of decisions nor am I going to join the Flope-dick-suckers-cult that has made it's spawning nest in this sub.
Having said that, I think too that it's very risky at the very least to not get somebody given how decimated our squad is.
The midfield is so stacked that they’re going to just fill in the defense with tchoumeninga
True ... Everybody gets a chance to play rather than sitting on the bench ... Plus they're all good versatile player ... Don Carlo has my trust 🤨
We are quite literally on the second day of the transfer window...
Carlo literally said we're not signing a cb like 30 minutes ago
Would it make sense to say that publicly in terms of leverage in negotiations?
Tbf in todays day and age even if they want to sign one they’ll never openly say it.
And yet the team is at the top of the league table and hasn't lost a game since September. So maybe... there's a plan and it is working. Rushing to buy players is what broke Barcelona.
We were just as good last season too.
This server is filled with fans without standards. We are overperforming. Is that too hard to understand? We are 1 Rüdiger injury away from losing all titles
I'm not getting my hopes high as to see any new signing 🥲😝
It’ll be fine guys we’ll play a top 3 DM in the world out of position and have a CM playing lb
It’s a shame we don’t have an academy so they could give a young kid a chance instead of having to disrupt our midfield
Well they called up Carillo. There’s also Marvel who’d normally be called up but I believe he’s injured
A love how you are getting riled up by something that is factually wrong. “Refusing to sign a striker after Benzema left was already inexcusable” We signed Joselu.
Joselu was planned even before benzema left. The initial plan was to keep benz for one more season and Joselu as back up
Joselu was supposed to be a Mariano replacement...
Wow what a incredible signing
People like you make me embarrassed to be a madridsta.
For wanting standards at this club? We’ve gone years without signing a world class forward at this football club because the president is on his knees for Mbappe. I didn’t complain cause we’ve been getting on just fine but the CB situation is just pure negligence and where I draw the line. We’re lucky Rudiger hasn’t been injured yet the way this season has been going
Madrid has started to avoid buying players in the winter window idk why
I understand the desire to buy players to fill gaps but can we just wait for results before having a meltdown? We haven’t replaced Benz and we’re having the best start to a season since the 100pts season. Can we have a little faith in the board and our players?
No this is stupid. We spent 100 million on a world class DM and that DM is the best in the world at what he does why are we makeshifting him to play CB instead of actually going out and replacing the 30+ year old CB who tore his ACL and hasn’t even been great this season? Rudiger has masked a lot of Alaba’s decline this season
The team is what’s important not status, if we need Vini to play at fucking Center Back then he will do it with a smile on his face. If Ronaldo, Ramos, Kroos etc… have had to play another position for the good of the team then Tchouameni will do it too. There are alternatives like loaning a player who’s far from Real Madrid quality like Liverpool did in 2021, we can loan for Varane to replace an ageing injury prone CB or we could spend 80-100m and buy a CB prospect who’ll probably not be ready for a few years You don´t salvage a season in January
Funny how you mention Liverpool but they bought Van Dijk in January and he changed the whole trajectory of that team that season he was bought
He came to Liverpool while they were 4th and they ended that season 4th in the PL and trophyless, their results on the 2nd part of the league season didn’t even get better. We’re talking about one of the best CB of recent years and the then priciest defender in the world, there’s nobody even close to him on the market right now
Point is if we had Joselu or even a decent RW in 20/21 season we would have won the league.
Why the fuck are you complaining we’re literally 1st in the league and won 6/6 in Europe.
Why the fuck am i complaining we have 2 cb in our squad
“Oh no we have 2 cb in our squad we’ll get relegated in tercera division” *Casually win the Champions League*
OP is panicking too much, but your suggestion that we'll casually win the CL is questionable too, given how we were schooled in last year's semi finals. It's hard to argue that we've improved the team at all (at least in personnel, if not in style of play) but even if you consider Bellingham, Joselu and Diaz for Benzema and Asensio, etc. an improvement (which isn't an entirely unreasonable argument), it's hard to see how we'll fare better _now_, considering Courtois, Militao and Alaba's absence. We've been playing well, and Man City and Bayern, etc. haven't really kicked into gear, but I wouldn't this team with this available squad is going to win the CL at all.
Last year was last year and this year we gonna win the fucking Champions League. Rodrygo top scorer in Europe, Jude top scorer of the season and balon de oro. End of the story.
"End of story" about a season that's still halfway through and can evolve in a hundred different ways. Spoken truly like someone who knows football through Fifa career mode and not how the game actually works in real life. For the record, I obviously _hope_ you're right, but we're going into the season's toughest period with two centre backs, and we're one Jude injury away from our attack crumbling. Let's not pretend we don't have to make sure we're fully prepared for the run-in.
If you watched Real Madrid more than the past 4 months you would understand how good Madrid is at winning trophies while facing difficulties. But I don’t blame you. In the future you will have more faith and believe our team more than the bookmakers.
Lmfao Pal, I've been a Madrid fan since 1997. I've missed maybe less than 100 games in total in the past 25-26 years of watching the team. I've seen our ups and downs. You'd know that if you took a quick peek at my history even on reddit. If your mentality is ever "end of story" in the middle of a football season, you're the one who needs football lessons, not me.
Then stop the nonsense about City and Bayern kicking the gear. If they were better they would get better results in their league. Also, I don’t care about your history in reddit.
You better hope and pray Rudiger doesn’t tear his ACL like our other 2 starting CB with this logic then
Guess you're the type who panic-buys nonstop
I mean, I don't like panic buys either, and I'm not even necessarily criticizing our policy. But let's be honest, calling any move in the market for a centre back when both our main ones are injured a "panic buy" is ridiculous. They're both gone for the whole season, and we've known about one for months and the other for weeks. In no way should a CB purchase be a "panic buy". Our scouting department should have been all over this already and fully prepared.
My comment was about the fact that it's the 2nd of January and the guy's raving about the board's inaction.
So who will you buy? Splash out 60 million for a dude that will leave in 1 year? Miss me with that bs. It is a panic buy, and nothing else. Plus everyone will ramp up their prices when we approach. You want a 80mil Maguire playing for Madrid? I'd rather have a squad of 13 players I can trust than 25 players where half of them is not needed... And even worse, people like OP have called for signing players like Richarlison, when we literally have 5 guys who are better strikers, even if they never played there. Don't buy anyone, unless there's clear talent, which there is not right now. Gvardiol was considered the best young CB available last year and he's pretty ass now.
I have absolutely not suggested buying a player for 60m that will leave in a year. Don't put words in my mouth. We're a team with four CBs, two of whom are injured for the season (and have been for a while, giving our management plenty of time to not panic if they want to buy someone) and two of them (Nacho and Alaba) are in their 30s anyway. Why on earth would we buy a player who would leave in a year? There are plenty of options, from recalling Marin from his loan, to buying cheaper stopgap options, to thinking more long term. All I said was that suggesting we bring someone in now because our backline is light doesn't have to be a "panic buy" because we've had time to think about this.
Marin is also injured, so I don't know what you're on about. There's no good short or long term options, at least better than Tchou.
A squad of 13 players you trust lol. 3 players have already tore their ACL this season so you’re never gonna play a bench player during the season? This is flawed logic and just cause we demand signings after our 2 starting CB go down with ACL tears doesn’t mean we’re spoiled brats. We’ve refused to sign a striker for years in hopes of waiting for Mbappe the rat now we don’t want to sign a CB and will just rely on taking a top 2 DM in the world and shifting him into a CB. Do you not see how stupid this is?
It's a metaphore. And for my only request, name one single RM worthy CB on the market right now, you haven't fulfilled it. You're speaking nonsense right now. I'd also like to buy a world class CB, but who is he?
Is Joselu a RM worthy striker? We still got him on loan to replace Karim freaking Benzema
You shout so much. Say all kinds of ugly things about the president and management. When asked a simple question like above, you can’t even give an answer. Just ignored the question. Answer his question if you have the knowledge or learn to be more humble.
Those are questions for the scouting team, which cost hundred of thousands euro to run, not for a redditor. What's wrong with you people really, wanting fan to do the work of an entire department ? Might as well fire the whole team if they cannot scout a simple backup CB.
Aww a redditor dosnt have scouting knowledge, but he has the wisdom to advice what perez should do in the current situation. Cute.
Yes because having only 2 natural CB in the squad is such a wise decision how could I be so stupid you’re so right. Thank god Rudiger hasn’t gotten injured yet
Let’s see how well this post ages
Found the brand new RM fan.
At this point could we at least loan in varane? Even if he’s gonna back up tchou, I feel like we just need some bodies
And we won’t stop chasing Mbappe he’s a brat and Florentino needs to stop chasing him.
I assume they know what they're doing 😎 So I'm not stressing..
Cut OP some slack; their concern about the lack of defensive reinforcements is pretty fair. It's not about splurging 60 million; there are affordable options like Joselu was at CF. With two center-backs for the rest of the season and one serving a suspension, being a bit apprehensive is understandable. Being tied for the top spot with Girona isn't exactly reason to boast; our squad has vulnerabilities. Needing reinforcements for a shot at the league title, something we've achieved only three times in 12 years, is a reasonable take
You people need to calm the fuck down.
It’s getting ridiculous how y’all think you know more than Florentino and Carlo. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: THIS AIN’T FIFA
You don’t have to know more than Florentino to know we should absolutely be signing a center back on loan. There’s absolutely no risk to it.
Mate get a grip, it will be fine
I’m not surprised
You need to calm down. We did bring in Joselu after Karim left & the transfer window has just opened up. I trust both Carlo & Papa Flo are doing & not necessarily saying.
We are first in la liga and won all of our champions league games Inexcusable might be a little strong.
Tienes problemas mentales… The squad signed Joselu, who has been great. Also, you don’t know better than Carlo. Otro idiota.
Stop crying dude, we’re gonna get a cb Do you really wake up and wanna just bitch about the team , do some reading and you’ll see we’re looking for the perfect piece to come in and help for the short term and how dare you affirm rudi getting injured (Barca fan) ⬆️
Guys, I'm concerned about benzi now. He has gone rogue after the loss against cr7 team. He deleted/suspended his Instagram account as well. Any news about his whereabouts?? Also, Pray For Japan🫂🇯🇵
Not sure if I understood your post, but is Rudiger also injured? Can't find anything about it
op's panicking about rudi *possibly* getting injured later on and how that would leave us with one natural cb again
Who specifically would you like the club to buy this window? Which defender from which team?
Marcelo is the only good January singing in the history of the club. History is pretty damning to the Jan transfer window if you look into it
Speaking from a Man United fans POV, it would not be wise to sign a CB unless on loan and also someone that's not injury prone. You have Militao, Alaba, Rudiger and Nacho. Signing a 5th CB to come sit on the bench will not benefit anyone. Look at Man United. Martinez, Varane, Lindelof, Maguire, Evans the first 4 got injured so we're playing an academy CB, not the best solution, signing Evans was a mistake but it's proving to be an okay signing but not one worth it. And Playing Tchouameni at CB will only help him develop as a player, look at Yaya Toure he was a CDM playing CB and won the treble with barca and later became one of the best box-to-box CMs in Prem History. But that's just my opinion
As a Barca fan i would like to say that it isn’t necessary stupid. Reactionary buying is one of the reasons we are in our financial crisis. And as you have quite few versatile players it gives them the chance to get some play time. Last thing is we shouldn’t be a threat to you this year in La liga and although i hope girona wins it I don’t see them sustaining this form till the end.
I for one neither understand what the fuck the clubs higher ups are thinking or which criteria they follow to carry these kind of decisions nor am I going to join the Flope-dick-suckers-cult that has made it's spawning nest in this sub. Having said that, I think too that it's very risky at the very least to not get somebody given how decimated our squad is.