Building A Team For The New Bernabeu - The Summer Transfer Thread

Unbelievable goal. That is special.

 

This helps both parties...

Mbappe has been getting threats and other incidents. These rumors will calm all of that. PSG want to save face for as long as they can so it's a good look that they seemingly changing Mbappe's mind.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mbappe never addresses this and just let's it run to give him a bit of protection/shielding.

 

Crazy thing is he's scored from a bicycle kick before as well.

 

When can we legally sign him? 18?

 

Barca will be all over him.

 

In before the kid reveals his idol is Vinicius Jr. And would like to play with him in the future.

 

In recent times it doesn't seem like Brazil turns out the stars like they used to, it would be if they had a mini renaissance..

 

I read yesterday that Barca sent scouts and are willing to pay in 3 instalments to Palmeiras. I hope Calafat seal this before. He is the next thing

 

In the end, as wonderful as it would be, we can't have everyone

 

Nor will everyone pan out the way we will hope. I think it's more about Florentino's fear of missing out since Neymar Jr. Look at the Jesus Reinier signing.

I agree with you here. We can hardly give some of our other prospects minutes. Thus it would be a buy and loan immediately situation. If we get both Håland and Mbappé, it gets worse for him.

Speaking of Brazilians, who barely remembers Lucas Silva? Didn't we sign him while Carlo was manager 1st time around?

 

Sure, but you can only keep paying €40 million+ for so many Brazilian prospects. The reality is, eventually there will come a time when we'll have to let a few Brazilian prospects go. We can't have a stranglehold on them all. I'm all for casting a wide net as long as it's within reason. But getting every Brazilian talent until the end of time just isn't sustainable.

Even the most fervent supporter of recruiting young talents has to see that.

If Calafat and the Brazilian scouts say this is a generational talent that we absolutely can't miss out on, I say go for it. But we have to understand there are limits even for a club like Real Madrid.

 

I don't follow Palmeiras, but based on a few footages he seems to have a lot of potential and even maturity for a 15 years old player. If all the top clubs in the world want him, clearly there's something there. It's up to Real Madrid to decide if they can give him an unbeatable deal. Right now, we can hardly give this guy any first team minutes. Unless he wants to go down the Ødegaard route, where he plays for Castilla and then a bunch of other clubs around europe, I see it being a hard sell to the player.

 

He can't leave Brazil for another 3 years due to FIFA rules and who knows what our squad will be by the time he's 19-20. Haaland for example might have joined and left by then. If Calafat thinks he's RM quality talent, we should go forhim. And we don't go after every Brazilian prodigy either. Paqueta went to Milan and Antony went to Ajax for example.

We were after Gab Jesus and rightly so, but Pep convinced him by offering playing time right away. And we are gonna have some flops regardless of nationality anyways (Jovic, Mariano, Odri etc). Case, Vini, Rodrygo and Militao have worked out and we also had Fabinho at Castilla when he used to play as RB. Opted not to invoke permanent option.

 

Many including RM fans online mocked Flo when he spent 45 ME on 16 year old Vinicius. Rhetoric then was he was over compensating for missing out of Neymar. Imagine now Vinicius and Fati together at Barca. So glad Flo snapped him up when Barca were so keen on him. If you wait till these players prove in a European league, price will be crazy like Felix, Dembele even if they haven't done much to warrant 100-120 ME. And they might not be at selling clubs either like Vini at RM and Gab Jesus at City.

Flo spent 45 ME on Vinicius and Rodrygo when the likes of 28 year old Sigurosson was joining Everton for 50 ME. Coutinho went to Barca for 140 ME+ few months after that. So it was already a low risk, high reward move to sign Vini and Rodrygo at that price given where the market was heading.

Not to mention how club got burnt spending big of 27-28 year old stars like Kaka, Hazard who had their relevant years elsewhere. Even if they had succeeded, you only get 3-4 good years at best for such a big investment. While we are still reaping benefits of signing a young Benz (than god Valencia didn't sell us Villa that summer).

 

There will always be flops on either spectrum of the signings. Whether they're green or veterans. A tried and tested Mbappe or Haaland can also become a flop. Nobody can say with certainty how a player will pan out for Real Madrid.

At this point the argument is trivial. Until he's eligible to sign with someone we'll debate this all day. There are so many other South Americans on our radar that there's basically a flavor of the month all the time. It wasn't long ago that we were hearing about Julian Alvarez from River Plate, now there's nothing.

Heck there were even rumors about Gabriel Veron (Edrick's teammate) being touted as the next big thing that Real Madrid was gonna sign. Now, we hardly hear about him.

 

Mbappe or Haaland will only flop at a club if they are marred by injuries. That's why they are considered generational talent by most. Won't include Ron or Messi since they are in all time great convo, but Lewa, Neymar, Suarez etc were too good to fail at any club as well imo. Such players are rare. Hazard had the talent but injuries and lifestyle choices screwed up his RM career. And he was too old to recover unlike 2015-16 write off season at Chelsea.

 

Win-Win.

 

This 15 year old kid has the same agent as Vini Jr. ..

 

Mbappe is ours. I have never seen anything more obvious than that. all those last headlines are a joke.
We should focus on halaand now