“Real Madridhave not learnt from last season, it seems”, the commentator says as the ballpasses Courtois into the net. Thanks to the other Real. Valladolid had given abig idea for a rethink about Zouzou’s new season, and why fans should not risefor much expectation.
Well, the pasthurts and yesterday’s shadow looms dark. The two matches – away and home so farshow how comebacks against Madrid are almost as predictable as watching a matchat the Bernabeau, and that replays hurts of last season.
Is Zidane in
love with his past? Well that is a mirage now. He got to ask Leptugui andSolari. The past, good or bad, remains one. What everything points to now is hehas to cut from that past, now. The need is to deliver point. And truth is theold seems weak at Real. And a good decision in time can help.The season’sbuys were glad tidings from looks at the onset, all of them promising bulbsthat can light the darkness of the Santiago. But they are no here. Ok, Harzardand Militao are injured, and Mendy may have come with an old injury. But whereare the rest?
Was buyingthose players a mistake, by the way? Is it the weekly pay burden? Is it an alleviation measure to the overUSD340 the Club spent this season? Is there a fixed number of players you can’texceed to have by FA rules?
Gareth Balegot a team in China that’s ready to him a million USD a week, almost twice hisnet at Real. Why did President Peres refuse to release him, when he knowsFrench and Welsh are not from same country?
But then, itis true: obvious that Bale has not worked to pay his dues for the massivetransfer fee that bought him to Madrid that year. Is holding back Bale going to
make him play well, or give the best he doesn’t have, to a team and fans thathas been bad to him.Ramos may beold but still active. But can he change method? Because obviously he is stillusing his mundane naught, old tact that opens too much risks at the back, andthe unnecessary invites to cards at the direst of times.
Seen a coupleof that last match? Well, that is a dark spot in the team’s horrible past thatmust be put back, and even if doing so will throw away both the baby and thebathwater. Modric and Kroos did remind us of same craze last week. Dear oldgood buddies too familiar for the season.
The Perezfactor. I don’t know the law, terms and rules of football presidency, talklessof the one at the Real. But what the hell is the man still doing at the hill,when this is a second return.
I lived all myReal life with him at the helm and it’s all hurts, except for the short tenureCalderon? the baldy head used Perez’s weakest link to further damages.
Is Zidane anold factor necessary for the new? I think so. But it must change. There seemsan iota of the mind that is set to the past. And that is huge burden on thesuccess of the team. Is Zidane afraid to gamble? Then gamble.
During thepres, he trained in two camps of old and the new elevens. Why not try each ofthe elevens and let us see what delivers better? Then select the good, drawingfrom both the assumed and the actual from each 11 side. Something good cancome.
Watchout. Kubois going to an offence soon. He may turn out to be one of those loaned- orsold-out out players who have bad ways of making expensive revenges. There arebookful examples.
Look atMoratta at Juventus back then and Atlectico now. His only goal once knocked outReal at the UEFA Champions League semis that season. And see the only goal hescored to deliver three points first week. I just can’t understand why youmarry many wives you can’t keep?
I understandBale actually started as a defender. How about turning him into one, or anotherinto attacker? What does it take to? That was one trait of Jose Mourinho thatis missing everywhere now, because he is seen nowadays only in the galleries.
Rodrygo is going too, I hear, and may be oneother. Who knows who is next? They took out, they can’t take in soon. Theirbargain for Neymar is a failed bit now, and the market draws to close.
The win atCelta penultimate week was a hand-in of three points, but I can’t remember thelast time real kept a clean sheet.
And even ifthey deliver the three points from today’s match at the Ceramica, it will notbe Uhuru. Something more must be done.