From Castilla to Primera, Again - The Santiago Hernan Solari Poggio Thread

Our current squad’s loser mentality is really rubbing off on people.

 

Its unbelievable how far out of his depth Solari is.

 

I can’t wait until the end of the season so he can leave, I loved him as a player, I love him as a Real Madrid legend but yea this relationship will only continue to get sour.

 

If this story about Marcelo disobeying etc is true, then Marcelo can pack his bags and GTFO.
I doubt it is true though. More likely pathetic journalistic attempt at creating drama and tension.

 

Everytime there is some tension in the club Marca will immediately start publishing these bs articles to try and stir the pot.
To reach this conclusion from those images is ridiculous.

 

You can't blame people for not wanting to follow an imbecile.

They can see the man is out of his depth and to be honest... sadly they know more than Solari and could possibly do a better job managing the team as captain-manager-players.

The sad part is some of you really don't see how far we have fallen. Your eyes will open soon.

 

we will probably able to finish somewhere between 2-4 place in the La Liga.
We have (IMO), playing as worse we are playing now, 50% to pass Ajax (and then probably get kicked in 1/4 if we keep playing like that).
if we're out from the CL in the 1/8, Solari will not even finish this year and you'll see a panic signing.
if we're out in the 1/4 (or later), he'll finish the year.

 

How we're playing now we will be dominated by Ajax in possession and on the scoreboard.

 

A lot if the players playing bad this year have a tendency to play well in the elimination phase of the CL. Think bale, benzema, Marcelo, Ramos of last year la liga vs CL.
Not saying it will happen again, but there is a chance.

 

Why would Marcelo switch himself to LB? Because he loves sprinting back to defend but considers getting involved in the build up play to much of a hastle.

 

To be honest with you, I noticed the switch and it never even crossed my mind that it was due to Solari's instruction. It was clear that Marcelo simply did what he thought was best, play on his natural position (and therefore overriding Solari).

 

I actually thought i saw Marcelo playing CM from first minutes.

 

Because he saw it as a threat to his position in the starting eleven in the long run. It’s obvious he realises that Reguilon is a legit challenge to his spot no matter how stubborn/ignorant/blind Solari is behaving.

 

Of course I can blame people. Solari was placed in this role by the management/owners of the club. The players are under him in the hierarchy. Anything else is irrelevant. Maybe if the players had actually tried to perform a bit better on the field instead of attempting this crap, the results would be different.

Once again, if true (which I doubt) then I don't want to see Marcelo in Real Madrid shirt any more.

 

^ Marcelo needed to be benched.. what are you talking about ? and Solari did just that and we won a game.. Then we saw Marcelo cheering and celebrating ours goals from the sidelines..
This last game he was basically trying something new (when we saw the lineup some of us were actually glad to see the change) since we had that 3 goal cushion..
The only player who he is not really looking after is Isco,.. besides that he's giving minutes to everyone else.
If we are gonna spread rumors now.. and take these spanish articles as gospel and make up some drama here is one that says Marcelo is still 7kg overweight and that he refused to get on the balance, which could explain why he's been playing like crap recently.
https://www.defensacentral.com/real...subir-a-la-bascula-cuantos-kilos-de-mas-tiene

 

And yet we climbed into the CL spots from 9th position, won the CL group and are into the next round of the CdR. Not all doom and gloom and at the time JL was fired there was speculation things would be a lot worse at this point.

Maybe Marcelo got winded, maybe they heard the other teams player/coach talk about a tactical change that required a counter action.

 

The players are the same, the manager is different and the only thing that mattered is that we moved up the table. Who gets credit is irrelevant (and ultimately the blame lies with Flo because he chose JL to begin with and has neglected to reinforce the team).

I'm not trying to make Solari look good I just think that if he is experimenting with formations and changing things up after 10 minutes in a game where he has a three goal cushion that he is at least working for his paycheck.

 

Maybe he realized his lineup/formation was a mistake, you want to know the difference between Solari and Lopetegui.

It takes Solari 10 minutes to realize he's made a mistake and he takes some action to correct it, JL still probably doesn't know what hit him.