How Do You Replace a Legend? - The Transfers, Rumors & Lies Thread

No, I swear we get your point and there is nothing wrong with it, but Joselu is ass, even if he scores in the next game.

 

I’m replying to a guy who plays football manager, wins a title and then thinks he knows how Carlo should setup this Real Madrid team.

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You were very vocal of Carlo and Kroos at the start of the season and now they’ve made you look a right mug, you’ve crawled back under your rock until the next defeat.

Stick to virtual management basement boy.

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Yep pretty much. Pepe may sneak in there, I loved his partnership with Ramos. Appreciate the love for Guti too.

 

With Messi and Neymar on the same team, PSG still carried some glamour and curiosity about them. They are liked the NY Cosmos. Without them, Mbappe was the lone star in a big league. PSG is uninteresting. Hakimi and Donnarumma should leave too. Seriously, the Saudi league has more players of note. The quality of football in France is probably better than Saudi Arabia, but sometimes, star power is a bigger draw than quality (when the quality is not close to the best in the world). It is more interesting to see Messi beating up everyone in a pink jersey than PSG while he was chasing a playoff spot. And I did not even like Messi.

 

I’d prefer Kroos stay atleast another year. He's shown that he can still play at a high level and the NT retirement has treated him well. I think Modric would be playing at a much higher level if he just retired from the NT.

 

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I don't understand why people put R9 in historic Real Madrid XIs. What did he do for us? He delivered his best years at Barça/Inter. With the Real shirt there are several better options like Hugo Sanchez, Benzema and even Van Nistelrooy had a better peak with the Real shirt

 

For me it’s who do I have the fondest memories of and also gave us the highest highs. I loved the years he had with us. His hat trick at old Trafford is legendary. Van Nistelrooy too had an amazing year that i will always remember but it was never as high as Ronaldo’s level. Hugo Sanchez was before I was watching. Benzema would probably get into my own XI over him tbf.

 

My priority for summer is Davies and Mbappe...aside from them another young promising right back would be ideal...I expect Nico Paz to be one of replacements of either Modric or Kroos..i expect big things from that kid

 

Ronaldo's highlight videos looked very very good, but his peak years in Madird lasted about two seasons, And he only won a single la Liga title. Benzema had around three good seasons. He had many bad seasons, but his peak seasons were extraordinary. He won a Ballon D'or with his club performance, and that alone should take him ahead Ronaldo. He is also our second all-time leading scorer.

 

I would argue to RM Ronaldo is closer to RM Van Nistelrooy than RM Benzema.

 

I always like Ronaldo 9, but Benzema was better here.

 

I’m not sure he could have done it right away. It really helped having Cristiano so he didn’t ever have that burden. When he first came he was not the leader that left us. And you’re right it’s a great story, we kind of took that journey with him and watched him become that leader for us.

 

I swear half the world is still sleeping on how big of a beast Makelele was.

 

Not sure about that, for years people referred to a defensive midfielder as the “Makelele role”, and we blamed our trophyless years on Perez selling him. But still, I think Casemiro did more for us in that role, won more. And even he doesn’t get in ahead of Zidane, Modric, Alonso, Kroos, Guti for me. Who would you have him ahead of?

 

He didn't have as much of an impact as Figo and even Zidane as well. The truth is that R9 himself said that when he returned from injury he tried to return to Barça but the club didn't have the money (or didn't want to) to sign him, so he came to Real.

 

If I'm making an all-time XI I'll always need a defensive midfielder. Because these lists that place 3 attacking midfielders in midfield don't make any sense. I think our best options are Casemiro, Redondo and Zarraga

 

I liked Ronaldo as a kid. I don't like him anymore.

 

I'm fully aware, its difficult to compare as most of the people you mentioned won way more, however, if we did not have Case we would not have had so much success.

Guti is not a good example, he was more of an AM, very inconsistent but on his day was insane.
I remember a season where he was even deployed as a striker and bagged in like 20 or something like that.

Alonso is the better example, would pick Makelele over him with the setup that I would go with.

Redondo was class as well, the prince, though he was not the best in defense.

In an ideal world I would go with Zidane Modric
Makelele

Or a double pivot of Redondo Make and Zidane ahead of em

 

I think it’s just for fun. So I pick the players who were the most fun

 

Oh, I am not slating you for your choices or list, its all opinions just chatting.

 

In that case let's put forwards at GK and CB also