Those grandpas just make up the numbers in the board. Always been the case for Florentino. It's him and JAS running the show ever since Mou got Valdano sacked.
Well I doubt they make decisions on sporting things and transfers. They (like Florentino) leaves it to the "non-Grandpa" who has seemingly run us down the since he grew in prominence. Hint: It's JAS Anyways just another reminder to laugh at anyone who says on this forum or any online platform who says we can be patient, develop players with time, use year(s) for growth without a need for constant trophies. Arda is a guy who is years away but he has the flashes. He ain't it right now though but with how we process we will soon "Ship him out" and some basement personnel director will clamor for the next tweeners they will say will fix us like Franco.. right.
The one thing you can’t blame Perez and JAS is trying to reproduce something that successfully worked. And that’s buying these (considerable) cheap young players and allowing them shine in Real Madrid. It worked with vini and Rodrigo and they (the grandpas) have been trying to make that happen again. The problem is that the current doesn’t have the backbone of Ramos, modric, kroos or a start in the CR level to accompany these young players. and the previous generation of “young” players, ow that they are the “older” players, have become stale, static, not consistent and for sure not leaders. It worked once, but it is not working now, just the kind of scenarios that Perez is bad at.
I can't be too critical of our transfer policy. A lot of our personnel issues came from serious injuries. We took a gamble last year and it didn't work out. We quickly rectified that by signing 3 defenders in the summer. Main thing Perez has got wrong from a transfer perspective is, very arguably, pursuing Mbappé over Haaland or Kane. The main thing to be critical about is the absolute trashy classlessness Perez has injected into this club as his faculties decline. It's got so rotten it's got onto the pitch.
It’s one of the things. I wrote about it like 3-4 years ago that vini and mbappe is not going to work - and unfortunately I’m right about this. Our all defense is a $hit show. Allowing militao to stay with all his injuries, same for Mendy, same for Alaba. Rudi was washed at the end of 2024 season. Trent was known to the whole world to be injury prune, yet our “medical team” didn’t saw it. then they added young players who had no leaders to learn from.
Again, I can see Mbappe not being a leader, but at the very least he doesn't lead you into a dead end. The people setting the tone for a team are setting a bad example. We were supposed to believe that Carvajal, Fede, Jude and Vinicius would be seeing an example, but between a reminder of father time and reliability, a player looking for his own role in the team, constant night life rumors, and pure chaos on the field, none of them has presented himself as a voice or as the personality that leads the team. Kane himself is a more laid back, don't talk, just ball dude. He lights up when he talks NFL, which is always funny to me how enthusiastic he is about it. But the leaders in Munich are other players which leads me to believe that he'd sink with the ship in Madrid too. As an example. Griezmann is a similar player, which is why I believe that he struggled in Barcelona where everything is a bit more confrontational, and why Lewandowski thrives there because he's a man that is seriously head on and in your face in communication.
I praised his strategy, just saying one may be able to present a decent argument about the pursuit of Mbappé at the expense of others.