REAL MADRID vs LEVANTE | La Liga Jornada #20 | 17.1.26 | 2:00pm CET

Bellingham has an identity crisis and is also a bit of an asshole with an ego.

I think he can be managed but it either needs to be as a CF or a B2B hard working midfielder. He can't play AMF. That is reserved for Arda. Jude can be saved but that's because he's less than Vini. Yes, I actually do think Vinicius might have a learning disability.

 

I love Gonzalo and really do think we have something special there with him. I'm glad he gets starts but it can't be on the wing. It hurts his development.

The one that must be sacrificed in Vinicius. Mbappe LCF and GG RCF. Things may be different when Rodrygo comes back. Hopefully he didn't already use up his 1.5 months of form.

 

Lol this made me laugh, but so true.

 

I didn't like that at all. Straight down the tunnel. The only player. I'm not sure anyone can get through to him. Does he have a GF or a wife? Can we talk to her? Maybe she can help us.

We are running out of ideas.

You might be right. Certainly he is scoring low in emotional intelligence. He's definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic. "A few fries short of a happy meal" as they say.

 

Carlo watching Vini at the Bernabeu:

 

Yup, Asensio got a standing ovation from a lot of the crowd when he was subbed off.

This makes it sound like Mbappe was one of the ones booed, he was not.

What are you talking about? It most definitely "got through to him". For better and for worse, he wears his heart on his sleeve, which is why he was sitting depressed on the stairs during halftime and could not handle putting on a fake face post-match after being booed for 90 minutes by an entire stadium of his own fans, considerably more than any other player.

 

I meant how do we get through to him. How do we make him see the errors of his ways? We've tried everything. Is there a solution?

You don't actually think the booing is going to help Vinicius to change do you? He doesn't have the mental maturity to deal with it. Things will get worse.

 

The boos were really loud for Vini, and a bit less so for Jude and Fede. They were also very audible for Huijsen too.

 

When will it become serious? When the team loses against a Arsenal or Liverpool? Or when they get a 'surprise' defeat against an Espanyol or Villarreal? When Vini throws another tantrum at the coach? It's already serious.

 

I was not able to watch the complete game live so I been catching up.

But can coaches please stop playing players completely out of position.
Wtf was GG doing on the right wing.

 

It could actually. When he gets booed in opposing stadiums, he starts shouting and smacktalking back to the fans. He did the complete opposite of that after getting booed by his own fans, running away from them down the tunnel.

I'm sure he is surrounded by a lot of yes-men, including Perez, and thought it was only haters and overly analytical managers who criticized him, so this could be a bit of a wake-up call, perhaps to stay in line a bit more and respect what the manager asks you to do. The way that he makes a point to frequently, emphatically kiss the badge makes me think today hit him deep and probably shook him as a clearly emotional person.

 

Between now and the end of the season, they need to sort out the proper positions for each player. I don't care if they don't want to play there. By the time summer arrives and transfer window opens, they need to know where each player stands and what they have.

Bellingham needs to play B2B, I don't care how many goals he scored when he first arrived. Guler is a 10, and is not a deep lying playmaker. Letting players play whatever position they please, and pushing other players into positions they are not proper fits is insanity.

There is enough of a sample size now that we can see for what for many was already obvious.

 

Not only the players; but the board. It is rotten from the top.

 

We could've kept Endrick for that.

 

Soy Madridista on a rant

¿Sabéis lo que más les jode a los que dicen que no sois madridistas por pitar?

Que no han pisado el estadio en su puta vida y lo ven por la tele.

Que no han dejado de pagar una letra de la hipoteca para liquidar el abono un año que ibas apurado

— 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘴𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢.𝘤𝘰𝘮 (@soymadridista) January 17, 2026

1200 matches at the Bernabéu, between 180 and 200 more on tour. Matches on four continents. And here comes a buddy who pirates the signal because he's broke as the Coyote's ears to tell me what it means to be a Madrid fan. Yeah, sure thing, pretty boy.

 

🚨 BREAKING: Real Madrid players are very sad and shocked that the Bernabeu booed them that much.

The locker room's message: "If you only applaud us in glory, but you disappear in defeat, you were NEVER one of us." @COPE pic.twitter.com/CSVRFLatXz

— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) January 17, 2026

🚨 Neither the club nor the players expected such a protest from the fans today.

What happened against Levante has generated sadness, surprise, and disappointment. @AranchaMOBILE pic.twitter.com/cC9jBXOtV6

— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) January 17, 2026

They still don’t get it. Not a single one.

 

If that is truly the message, the problem is bigger than we thought. It's not about the team losing.

It's about entitlement, the players having enough power to sack one of the most promising coaches in European football. https://t.co/u0HI4dVu9l

— Lucas Navarrete (@LucasNavarreteM) January 17, 2026

 

The media could easily be pouncing on this and deliberately making it worse. We'll see.

 

BINGO!

There are members on here that are literally addicted to twitter non-stop. Sharing bogus articles non-stop. Elon has them by the balls. Addicted. Who's gonna hijack my emotions today with fake stories? It's pathetic.

The Media said 3 hours before Xabi's dismissal that he was staying! None of them knew anything. Now suddenly they know what the footballers internal thoughts are

 

Don't fall for that tripe; it's the same absurd rhetoric from the 'War on Terror' - you're either with us or against us.

 

Dude let's be real, Vinicius is your Saddam Hussein. "He has weapons of mass destruction and he wants to unleash war on the club. He is conspiring with other terrorists like Jude and Valverde to topple our virtuous boss, Xabi Alonso from XABI FC and kill us all. We must stop him". The media is sensationalising this with endless breaking news so that you keep clicking and liking and sharing. You believe it. The war on Florentino. The war on terror. You fell for it.

You are what you despise

 

Nice try, Locker Room Jr.

But what if they sub you out, demand you press, ask you to work harder and make you watch videos?

That's right, you get them sacked.

This is what happens when the keys to the club are handed over to a pack of delusional infants under the pretext "they won us 2 UCLs"..

They failed one coach, turned on the next and now rather than holding themselves accountable for shitting the bed for 1.5 seasons, they’re openly lashing out at fans for booing them—audaciously thinking they're the patrons of Madridismo.

They're (or he) is playing a dangerous game..

 

I reckon Arbs starting GG at RW is because he doesn't have the authority to bench Vini. Or shift any of the star boys to the RW.

But GG has been on form scoring almost a goal a game, so he has to start. So RW it is.

What a total waste of the kid. He has proven to be the team' s most clinical finisher when he gets chances, yes better than Mbappe in that regard. But he gets the short end of the stick bec. he's cheap.