Odegaard played 233 minutes in la Liga this season. I wouldn't call that plenty of minutes. Even Hazard played more than him (257) while being injured every other week. You don't bring back one of the club's biggest potential and leave him on the bench to freeze. Same for Militao and Jovic. I mean.. These guys deliver as soon as they play with their nations so what's the issue with them? The issue with these guys is that when they have a bad game they get punished for it for months by Zidane. On the other hand, Zidane's favorites don't get punished. They can have as many bad games as they want and still get plenty of minutes, he will still "try to recover them". Sent from my SM-G970U1 using BigSoccer mobile app
Varane can drop as many disasterclasses as he wants but he'll never see the bench, Benzema can go as many games without a single shot on target as he wants yet he'll never even get subbed out. On the other side the likes of Ode, Militao and Jovic should just rot in the bench because they didn't produce immediate results in that one random game that they're usually given to start.
Jovic has been trash and should be sent out of the club as soon as possible to recoup anything. Massive failure. Odegaard doesn't guarantee we win yesterday but at least he would give something different. We now what we will get with Isco.
If you try really hard to find a reason for why a player deserves to not play, you'll find one. All i know is Odegaard completely outperformed Isco for every single minute last season on the field every weekend.
Ah, so he's only played that in two seasons? Wow man, that's just terrible. I can just imagine how hard he's worked, never getting in trouble, injured or sick... only wanting to score goals for this club he loves so much. We should give him a run of 10 matches. Definitely. That or fire Zidane.
Not sure about Jovic because it does seem like he has some behavioral issues, I haven’t heard a single negative thing about Odegaard and Militao however. He’s not going to develop chemistry with them while rotting on the bench though.
I don't disagree in regards to Jovic's behavioral issues but to write him off completely and to say that he's incapable of contributing anything whatsoever is absolute nonsense.
Why do you have to be so black or white all the time ? I mean you can't ignore that Jovic doesnt get any run of games. Or Odegaard and Militao. And now Valverde. You can play Benz because he is our best striker but you can sub in Jovic at the 60th minute of a game , start him a game or 2 and then again use him as a sub. Give him a few unimportant matches. What he does is give 0 time to some players and then when we fail miserably and cant win a game he waits untill the 76th minute or so to use one of those players. Because he simply doesnt know what to do.
Lol hilarious coming from you. Tell me more about your takes on Zidane. I'm a person who heavily criticizes his favorites, someone like you who I have only seen dog players and people who has shown a slant against has no right to speak of only seeing things black or white. Who is ignoring them? I have criticized Zidane for Odegaard and Isco. I won't criticize him for not playing the striker who doesn't know how to score though. Valeverde has been poor to average for a while now. Again, people on this forum will ignore this because it doesn't fit what they want to see. Jovic is a bum. Not just on the field, off of it. He doesn't play because he has shown nothing to warrant paying besides you guys on a forum carrying his matter on your heads.
Eh? He was one of our best players before he got injured and hasn't been able to get into the team since coming back.
Yeah that's what I meany by a while now. Since he has returned in early December he has been poor to average. While Modric in that time period has been world class. Kroos has been average to great. Casemiro has been inconsistent all year. Usually poor but with a great match here or there.
There should be a consistent 5 man rotation between Odegaard, Kroos, Modric, Valverde, and Casemiro for the 3 midfield spots. Isco should get no minutes. Same with the back 4, we need to find consistent minutes for Militao. Varane has been piss poor and walks into the starting 11.
This is what I expected would happen if everyone fit but so far Zidane’s handling of it has been very disappointing, I’d imagine that in the Copa game against Athletic we might see Martin and Fede start.
You're preaching to the choir. I'm just stating the facts. Valverde has been poor to average recently. Varane on the other hand has played decently the past couple matches... better than Ramos. I agree that we have to find a way to play Militao, but Zidane doesn't even rate the guy because he'd rather play Nacho. You can't even get mad because Nacho has had some good performances.
Finding Martin........ 🚨🌕| Real Madrid are worried about Ødegaard's situation, they don't understand why he has disappeared from the team. @JLSanchez78 #rmalive— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) January 11, 2021
If I read only your posts, I would think that we are playing well and smashing our opponents. The reality is that we are playing like shit and nothing has changed since Zidane came back. I would be okay with our results, if you say that we are in transition years before getting back to the top of Europe, but what transitioning when all of our players for the future rot on the bench?
This is false because I criticize our play, I have criticized the managers team selection and I have been critical of our players. This forum is too sensationalized. Whenever we drop points we must trash the entire club from manager to all star players. Whenever we win the optimist forget the trashings while the pessimist go quiet waiting for the next down turn to lash out. The reality is if you guys dislike Zidane so much and think he is such a problem, I can't wait for when he leaves. So reminiscent of Cristiano. Ungrateful forum complaining nonstop about how the plauer is holding us back.. not realizing even with his shortcomings we could have no better.