The New Era of Financial Frugality - The Transfer Thread

The “pull” of the GOAT.

 

So, we’ve now managed to secure Camavinga, Alaba, Tchouameni, Rudiger and Endrick, despite significant competition from the biggest clubs in Europe, some of which were/are oil money clubs.

The club’s brand name and reputation still stands strong, and if we can continue to show that young world talent can prosper at the club, we should be able to compete in the transfer windows (in theory) for years to come.

 

So glad you guys like Gvardiol :')

 

As i always thought, we won't get everyone but we will still have some players who want to be part of this great club, IMO young players are human just like us and in awe of the club just like us.

As long as we get some of them and keep winning we will always be an attractive destination because of the fact that we can win now and have a long history of winning both on a team and individual level, plus the pay isn't awful.

More likely than not a successful career winning trophies, being part of a historical well run club, paid well, what's not to like.

 

I like Enzo

I just don’t know if we’d need to go for a midfielder right now

we are already going for a CB that we don’t necessarily need, but have to get because he is special

Enzo doesn’t seem special and we have some talent at the position already.

We need attackers

 

Nothing special about his game. Hope management skip on this guy.

 

I hope he comes to la liga, like Atletico or a Sevilla type. Just not Madrid when we have more pressing needs

 

Absolutely no need for Enzo. At all.

If we lose Bellingham we should be going to get a squad player

 

Well Enzo would be that

but with limited resources and an uber competitive transfer market due to SHITpl and oil money, we need to be smart about where we spend the money. Throwing high money at Enzo would be shortsighted when we have no striker back up to an aging starter and no right wing attacker. We also don’t even have a back up for Vini since Eden is retired

 

When have we gone for back up talent since Pedro Leon basically? Mariano was another outlier. Even failed transfers have been upcoming players who seemed to have starting quality talent like Theo, Ceballos.

And squad players came from academy like Nacho, Lucas. We should look for internal solutions like Arribas, Brahim to add depth.

 

Slightly unrelated, but last week I got a super clean fade from this barber that does basically all of our players' cuts.

https://www.instagram.com/laarbys/?hl=en

My wife doesn't get it but I went all the way out to Majadahonda which is 50 min away from where we were staying to get to the barbershop just because of that lol. Was super cool to hear his stories, Karim and Zidane's kids are his favorite clients.

 

inshAllah

 

Dont know if he’ll cut it in the MLS. They have players who can get out of group stages in a World Cup tournament.

 

He would be one of those that comes to us to mail it in

good for him but I doubt he’d do well

 

Hazard came to Madrid to mail it in.

 

🚨🌕| PSG, Chelsea are interested in Rafa Marin. Real Madrid haven’t opened extension talks yet and his camp is disappointed. @JorgeCPicon #rmalive

— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) December 10, 2022

Playing in Castilia

 

I wouldn’t sell PSG a virus.

Renew him and sell him to Chelsea with a buy back

 

🚨🌕| Real Madrid look to strengthen their fullback options. Fran Garcia & Miguel are the options. Vinicius Tobias, Álex Jiménez from Castilla are also being monitored. @relevo #rmalive

— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) December 11, 2022

 

I just wouldn’t do any business with them since he started spouting shit towards Perez / the club.

 

We don’t have to spend millions on a RB.

Promote Tobias.
Bring back Fran Garcia (better than Guti)

 

Players I watched for the first time and thought were good in the WC.

• Juranovic, RB, 27, Celtic and Croatia
• Gvardiol, CB, 20, Leipzig and Croatia
• Ageurd, CB, 26, West Ham and Morocco
• Sosa, LB, 24, Stuttgart and Croatia
• Attiat-Allah, LB, 27, Wydad and Morocco
• Amrabat, DM, 26, Fiorentina and Morocco
• Adams, DM, 23, Leeds and USA
• Ounahi, CM, 22, Angers and Morocco
• Bellingham, CM, 19, Dortmund and England
• Paqueta, AM, 25 West Ham and Brazil
• Saka, RWF, 21, Arsenal and England
• Alvarez, ST, 23, Man City and Argentina
• Richarlison, ST, 25,Tottenham and Brazil
• Olmo, LWF, 24, Leipzig and Spain

I also watched Felix play before at Atletico Madrid, and it is worth mentioning he is a better player with Portugal.

As for Enzo Fernandez... I dont understand the hype. He is technically another Gago but with more aggression.

 

Good list. Amrabat is a BEAST, and Paqueta was better than I thought too.

 

I forgot Holland's players:

• Timber, RB/CB, 21, Ajax and Holland
• Gakpo, LWF/ CAM/ CF, 23, PSV Eidhoven and Holland.

If teams are shopping for Goalkeepers then I would add:

• Noppert, GK, 28, Heerenveen and Holland
• Bounou, GK, 31, Sevilla and Morocco