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

I can’t imagine Haaland refusing to join us Mbappe already got here first, if all other wants/needs align I can’t see that being a reason to not join.

 

Players with expiring contracts in the next two summers:

2022:
Mbappe, Pedri, Goretzka, Ansu Fati, Pogba, Camavinga, Kessie, Dybala, Ronaldo, Ilaix Moriba.

2023:
Salah, Sterling, Kimmich, Mane, Rashford, Lautaro Martinez, Jan Oblak, Gnabry, Lewandowski, Fabinho, Aouar.

We should really pay attention to these expiring contracts. Mbappe, Goretzka, Camavinga, Kimmich are all players I would love to see here, especially on a free. I'd also make a cheeky offer to Moriba.

 

Or team up in Madrid and dominate Europe for a decade together, neither necessarily playing single fiddle to each other. Would love to see it.

Maybe their egos are too big for one dressing room to handle but that’s different to the hunger to succeed which both are showing, especially Haaland.

 

Yet Raiola has said otherwise...

He specifically addressed the idea saying great players play together all the time. Your opinion on Halaand doesn't outweigh that.

 

There's only 1 Ballon d'Or and only 1 throne as Madrid's franchise player. Winning a big trophy as the clear-cut best player is meaningsful for someone's legacy than winning 4-5 UCL-titles as 2nd/3rd fiddle.

Look no further than Benzema. His 2020 LaLiga trophy is way more valuable than all of his titles pre-2018 combined. He's rated as a top 3 striker (at minimum) and always in the conversation to win Ballon d'Or.

 

That's great and all but that doesn't mean it won't work this time. Even if Halaand were to run for the hills we would make a killing anyways.

 

Yeah but nothing can compare to Giroud. Amirite.

 

To me it looks like Mbappe is fine with being a Robin. He's been that at Monaco, PSG and France now too. Hasn't struck me as the kind of player that wouldn't want to work with other stars.

 

There’s a case to be made for wages sure, I’m just not seeing how a player can refuse a team he wants to join because player X who’s already at said club is too good to play with.

That’s poor mentality. Haaland gives me all the impressions of a winners mentality.

Wages might be a problem. If Chelsea offer him €25m net per year we likely won’t be able to afford that if we’re giving Mbappe the same amount.

Mbappe is a better and more marketable player so they shouldn’t earn the same in my books but other clubs might see it differently if they can afford it.

 

Ronaldo didn’t join us because he wanted to avoid being potentially overshadowed by Messi, he joined us because he wanted to be at Real Madrid.

 

The kids agent literally spoke against this. It fiction to say they wouldn't play together

 

Ronaldo wouldn’t give a shit who’s at the club as long as they’re good players who will contribute to winning titles because he himself is a winner.

If either Haaland or Mbappe refuse us because one or the other has already joined then we shouldn’t be looking to spend so much on a player with that kind of weak mentality.

I know they had a bit of thing in the CL about trying to outdo each other with some healthy rivalry between them even though their teams weren’t playing each other and you’re connecting dots here but I don’t think that will be the reason why we can’t/won’t land both.