It must have lead to a disagreement with Flo and a potential situation that he did not want to deal with in the future..getting harassed by your boss on why you don't play a certain player.. Carlo lived it and told the story
It’s bigger than a player just staying though, it was a vote of no confidence from Flo. Yea I can see your point. I guess if you’re a glass half full kinda guy you’d say this season was exactly what the doctor ordered, it’s certainly going to make us move more aggressively in our quest to rebuild.
Exactly. Reads like comedy seeing post blame Zidane for Morata's departure like Morata hasn't become an absolute joke meme ever since he left. We made off like bandits selling Morata. Our problem was our president didn't adequately replace anything. Even when Zidane left he still didn't m.
Ronaldo scored around 27 goals and 13 assists, isnt not being able to score the biggest problem for us this season ? Last thing I saw was we have gone around some ridiculous amount of minutes without anyone not named Benzema finding the back of the net.
That is most probably true. His statement about older players having more responsibility for the team’s struggles, while true to an extent, shows his weak mentality and lack of edge.
Lack of scoring was indeed the problem last year and this current season. The issue is that Ronaldo couldn't finish a ham sandwich in the first half of the season. Him leaving wasn't really the problem. Some of us knew that we needed to move him on last summer and all of us knew there would be severe growing pains. Those growing pains were exasperated without replacing him with anyone.
I encourage you all to watch the match or highlights again. Pay attention to the way the team was set up, the shape of the team. It was a disaster. Zidane even admitted it but it seems no one on this board can accept this. In fact if you point it out here you get abuse or ignored. Last night was all on Zidane. We know the players are underperforming but at least give them a chance with some sort of structure.
Dybala went from 22 to 5.So he took those goals and assists right out of another player's total. For me, it was time to move on.
Time to move on should not have been done in such a drastic way so as to getting reduced from history creators to getting pushed around by the likes of Levante, Rayo Vallecano on a regular basis. Your hate for Ronaldo is well known, however he was more than just goals, he was a leader as well which had spurred us on multiple times. There is no doubt we ( Perez) betted on Bale as the new leader and spearhead which failed massively. It was funny Perez thought he could do away with two all time greats of the club and go ahead with no proper replacement and Lopetegui as the coach. I am quite sure we wouldn't have been in such an abysmal state had Zizou and Ronaldo were retained ,Bale was shown the door and we got Hazard and may be a couple of reinforcements.
Perez sold the bench and never replaced it with players who were ready to walk into the lineup and contribute. Between the injuries and sales time caught up with us. We need a balance between projects and players who can improve the squad right now.
That's true but let's be honest Benzema was playing regardless of form which any player would see as a sign that they weren't valued. Morata was a spoiled brat but the club didn't handle that situation correctly.
Chelsea wanted a world record fee for Hazard last summer according to HLN. Still want 120 ME for him with a year left on his contract. Can't imagine the meltdown here had we spent 225 ME on Hazard last summer. We struggled the same way with Ronaldo in La Liga last season so this Liga wouldn't have any different without class replacements like Hazard who was super expensive and better midfield(again Pogba, Eriksen etc weren't available last summer. Barca tried for Pogba). It'd have been put everything in CL the basket again.
Zidane never managed the squad in a way that kept everybody satisfied so we were leaking quality left and right because players not in his core group were unhappy.
No manager in the world could manage a squad that big and talented while keeping everyone satisfied, none.
I hope you ain't mentioning me because I sure as shit don't want Bale to stay. Just cuz I don't condone booing someone doesn't equate to me wanting them to stay.