Not being able to predict how a player will turn out surely is more of an indictment on clubs decision to keep Bale and quadruple down on Benzema. Both those bets were very risky and anyone being objective knew how foolish this was. Edit: 2017/18 Mariano 13 goals + 2 assists in 1519mins Morata 10 goals + 4 assists in 1354 mins Benzema 4 goals + 3 assists in 940mins
Mariano with 3 Shots per game on average, Ronaldo with 7.5 shots per game average by the way (Asensio as the teams top scorer with 0,5 Shots per game). Blaming Benzema is cute and all, but his form would have been manageable if Ronaldo wouldn't have the worst season of his career. He's not even having a "bad season for his standard", it's simply bad.
To be clear I'm ready to move on from both. The team is built around Ronaldo, including Benzema who licks his boots at half time. I'd sell both and see us win much more domestically.
If we would have a possibility to bring him back, his current form would be the best thing that happened to us.
He also said he would have stayed if Zidane had told him to. Zidane wanted to integrate Mayoral and keep Benz unchallenged for the starting spot .
He said that he believed Morata would stay. Zidane allegedly asked Morata to stay, but he decided to leave.
There is a Kimmich documentary that shows his everyday life. He's currently learning spanish and in the footage of his homework, there's a sheet of Real Madrid's first anthem and him wiriting down a translation next to it.
I am talking about Mariano who recently said he put his future in zidane’s hands who advice him to go to Lyon.
Yes and allegedly we wanted to sell Bale but he refused. Started with Alonso a few years back I've been concerned that our transfer policy depends too much on the intentions of the squad. Players are already babied throughout season and then rewarded with tantrums and insistence during the trade window. The club needs to be more in control. Treating players well is a good thing but it's not like we don't have James situations regardless of how we handle these guys.
That i am talking about too. He said that the decision to leave was because the team had just won the CL and there was Morata there as well. Which suggests that he though that Morata would stay. Mariano signed with Lyon in June, Morata joined Chelsea at the end of July. @Ahmadi8 is right, it was actually Benzema that told him that Lyon is a good option.
Benzema was the one who should be going to France to finish out his career. We desperately need a change.
, , , I was not , I called it correctly after the Malaga win ... I know we couldn't win at San Mames. Other teams slipped , that's why !! but anyways guess what , I ain't no fan of those teams , I can predicted my own and I did it right
En una charla con el programa El Primer Palo de esRadio, el canterano madridista confesó: “Le pedí consejo a Zidane y me dijo que lo mejor era salir, con la marcha de Lacazette en el Lyon. Si me hubiera dicho de quedarme, seguramente le hubiera hecho caso”. Translation: “I asked Zidane for advice and he told me what it was best for me was to leave the club, now that Lacazette had left Lyon. If he would have told me to stay, for sure that I would have taken his advice” https://www.google.com/amp/s/as.com/futbol/2017/11/02/primera/1509641722_760278.amp.html
Mariano's biggest mistake was not going on loan last season when the club wanted him to go. It was clear from then until this summer ZZ had no plans on having him play a major role. Even half a season getting experience and scoring goals, the club would have brought him back asap after Morata left.