Oh now you know Ronaldo's future plan, are you his BFF or what? Anyway donate your ten bucks to your "poor club" as they need it more.

Indeed, not only Perez but the whole squad need to learn the lesson, a lesson which can only be learned if they're willing to be patient.

p/s nobody gonna flame you la. hahaha~

Proven huh?
I need to remind you about a guy that won every single tournament in his first year with a 1st division club.

All wenger did was to implement his style in a team where he have been the head coach for YEARS. Even then, he didn't even manage to be the biggest thread in EPL and in UCL every season. Just because you progress to the latter stage of any tournament doesn't mean you win it, right? The same goes to Jose when he can't even manage to lead Chelsea to the final stage of that tournament which was easily done by Avram Grant (he even managed to beat Liverpool which was known as an impossible task for Jose in UCL). So, was Avram Grant considered as proven when he first took the job? Or is he considered as a proven coach now?

Take into account that this is a new management + New Head coach + fully overhauled squad + not even one season together. It's easier to understand if I break it down, right? So I don't need to state what is the squad missing now. It's just their spending + recent history will haunt them whenever they stumble.

To be proven, you have to prove something, am I right? So I guess Pellegrini is proven in my book (and in many Madridistas book)since he managed to change this team the way I (we) like it.

Haha, didn't Ronaldo voiced his desire a couple of seasons before the finale in Rome. If you really are his loyal fan you should know that Ronaldo by all mean is not a quitter and he will never quit until he achieved everything he wanted. He did just that with United which is why he voiced out about moving to Madrid after he won the UCL and the League title with ManU. Sir Alex stalled the move for another season.

Rage quit? I don't think so..

Yes we are the Richest club because we have our own TV rights, Yes we are not a building team, and yes most of our purchase are not youngsters who needs proper training and guidance before they can perform for a club such as madrid.

So you asked us to face the facts right. So, let's face the fact. Madrid are the richest club in the world, so what's wrong with buying the best players in the world when we have less to think about financially.

RM bought players that have the class and ability to play for them. Aren't Granero, Arbeloa, Lassana, Higuain, Marcelo, Gago, Garay and Benzema youngsters? Didn't they grew up to play better than before? (except for the newcomers which we have to wait to see them shine).

Do you understand the word rebuild? Just because we use that word doesn't mean we have to target youngsters only. It's the similar attempt but the difference is Madrid targeted players with quality rather than young players in the last summer.

Know one thing dude, old players that can inspire a team SOMETIMES are more important than buying bunch of youngsters. Wenger altered his policy by choosing to add Campbell and Arshavin to his current squad. That has to say something, right?

hehe,~

Sir Alex deserves everybody respect and no need to reconfirm his status as the one of the world's best manager.

Have he won everything in every single year? NO

Did he or did he not bought a single "refined Diamonds" during his tenure? Yes, He did and if you say no, then you are new in this field. Go do your research. Those questions are not meant to insult Sir Alex.


Everything will not seemed like a good move in any clubs early years reconstruction. But here we are today watching Madrid trying to beat everything that Barcelona did one by one. We are now level with Barca's position in the league but scored more and win more matches than Barca in the same number of matches both team played. This is the recent result of a team competing against the best Barcelona in history.

It may change in near future but that's not the point. The point is did Real Madrid failed miserably in their quest to reconstruct a team or are they showing improvement week in week out?

This post has been edited by gto87: Mar 16 2010, 08:59 AM

Haha, on some part I can clearly see Gago hesitated in most of his moves and passes. Pity him, was a nice player and I thought Madrid should loan him to Man City but hey, that ship has sailed right (at least we didn't loose depth in our squad)

Ronaldo was really a hardworking lad and at some point he made me think that every other player were lazy except Marcelo and Van Der Vaart. Towards the end of the game, Higuain shined but couldn't pull off anything other than his goal and a silly yellow card. But the goal was well taken and that's all that matters.

Oh ya speaking of silly, credit to Ramos for not doing any needless harsh tackles.

If I'm not mistaken, Garay, Alonso and Ramos are just one yellow card away from suspension and judging from our previous encounter against Getafe, I predict Alonso and Ramos will most likely miss the derby game, although I hope they won't. Just my 2 cents.

Like you said the introduction of Guti really did change the game. He filled the gap in the middle left by Lass and Granero. Killer passes in the last few minutes are so exciting and efficient.

Anyway, really hope to see Benzema make a comeback for the next match against Getafe.

This post has been edited by gto87: Mar 21 2010, 06:50 AM

Wow, we're losing so many quality players at midfield for this thursday night match. Damn!!

Guti, M.Diarra and kaka are still doubtful while Lass confirmed to have stomach flu, don't know whether he'll still able to play or not.

Marcelo is back to his hometown for personal reason

But Kaka and Benzema most probably will be rested since we have Derby match this weekend.

Hoping to see Gago and Marcos Alonso get themselves a few minutes for both matches.

Damn! Astro Sucks!

Not good man, several players have 4 Yellow cards now, with a very little choice for the coach to rotate. Hope we'll get through without any suspension.

From what I've seen this season, Guti is really a better player when he starts from bench. Even if he's not fit to start, I hope Pellegrini can still include him in the squad.

Happy Birthday Ramos~

hahahahhahahah~

Waah~ Nice to see all you guys can watch the match together.
Have fun guys......


hope we all do~

Guys2, come on now. what's with the hate on Pellegrini and Perez? It's plain stupid man.

If you watch from the start, you can see that even Xavi made a bunch of miss passes, why? Because Pellegrini opted for man to man pressure even before they reach the halfway line. By doing so, he manage to stop Barca from playing the triangle pass and made them play long ball.
It's a brilliant strategy to win the ball back but Madrid defense were nervous at times and they followed exactly what Barca did - to clear the ball once being charged by opponent players which is one of the major reasons why the tactic failed.

2nd half is way better than 1st, but Madrid have to learn to take their chances, VDV should've scored. Guti changed the game the minute he came in. Benzema not so impressive but then can ask much from him since this is his first game in months. Ronaldo didn't disappoint by any chance, though I'm expecting something better from him while others played better.

Special mention goes to Casillas and Marcelo. Both had a good game in my opinion.

Messi goal showed Madrid were sloppy and would've done better if they tuned their mind to focus on their task seriously.

This post has been edited by gto87: Apr 11 2010, 07:31 AM

Hurm.. from what I see, our team is nervous when there's enormous pressure from the press.

El Clasico was not the only match RM being edgy. Against Lyon RM were fairly showing anxiety except Ronaldo. Again in this game, only Ronaldo have the confidence to play like always but others are doing their job just to make sure they won't be the scapegoat (which is what the press searching for), and when the press got nothing or maybe the person to blame wasn't interesting, they targeted pellegrini's head which for most of people who didn't watch the game will think that Pellegrini didn't do his job.

Players like Higuain have to start build the confidence and be calm. But the most important thing is, the defenders + gago must learn not to give away ball in such pacy game. Not in any games they should do that. They have to learn to pass equally improve their positioning because we wouldn't loss if we never concede.

The answer will still be the same. hahaha~

Meltzelder off, hope Adan can make the bench. BTW, Canales scored a cracker against Villareal, I think he's ready to be Madrid's next no 7. hehe~

Haha, I never said anybody that takes the no 7 should carry Raul's legacy, what I'm saying is, he can be the next legend here in Madrid. heheh~

It's the same with Germany's World Cup's Jersey and I love it~

The board wanna cover the 250mil by selling the highest offered players, Sneijder and Robben tops the list and that's why the players were sold.

If they really wanna sell off "useless" players, VDV, Drenthe, Gago and Meltzelder should all gone by now~ But there's no real offer for them.

haha verx, my post is for Raul88 and if it's down to me, I would change Sneijder for Ronaldo in a heartbeat. Robben is my favourite player since he was in Chelsea so, no chance I'm selling him

IMHO, Kaka was pretty good compare to other players and Marcelo done well in attacking but he was worst at defending, Albiol looked very fragile today.

Happy to see Juanfran but I'm not really comfortable with him on the pitch since we were rushing to search for the winning goal.

Haha, the funny thing about Marcelo's goal is that he's not good at doing that but I'm surprised to see that he managed to score that goal even when he was sandwiched in between two of the tallest Osasuna players not to mention that he's one of the shortest Madrid player.

At this rate Madrid will find it hard to defeat Mallorca at their own backyard. Pellegrini got to sort it out.

Anyway, I miss lass even more after watching last night's match~