@giorno On Reguilon, regardless of all else I think the idiocy is being shown up when there are already reports of the club exercising the buyback this summer. So that’s a 10 Mn hit on a deal that was bizarre to start with. Surely some Italian team would’ve taken Marcelo or Odriozola? For the latter, I think German clubs too could have been options. Then again, I also belong to the camp that would have sold Ceballos last summer and kept Llorente... and wouldn’t have gone for Mendy.
I've been saying we should have just kept Reguilon until january at least, but he wanted the kind of guarantees of first-team football we simply couldn't give him. Besides which, if we manage to get corona under control by next summer, that's not a bad deal imho
Marcelo is a big earner coming off two bad seasons past 30. I don't think there is a market for him, no. Odriozola, if somebody wanted him we would have sold. Mendy...on the one hand i love him, on the other hand looking at reguilon yeah, we might have saved the money. But then, nobody could foresee corona...
Bit disappointed Odegaard has faded from starting 11 since opening game
Hazard being a bust of a signing so far hasn't helped. Couldn't really foresee that as it's not like he was massively injured at Chelsea, would frequently play 50 games + even in his mediocre Chelsea seasons.
It's very hard in business end of seasons to be full on in both, many of Madrid's recent CL wins have come with mediocre La Liga campaigns behind them and that was with younger legs.
AC Milan were an exception in the 2000s but again they were struggling to even make top 4 of some of those seasons in Serie A.
Odegaard got COVID and then got injured
Hazard suffered a traumatic injury courtesy of Meunier and hasn't recovered yet
Joint third with 87 points while letting the league go in the last 2 games(including a loss at celta with a reserve team), and we got to the end of the season running on fumes with a lot of injuries, we had to prioritize. 90 points in 15/16, 93 in 16/17. 17/18 was the only time we won the CL with a mediocre league campaign in our recent run
Milan only struggled with top 4 in 06/07, where they started with a 6 points penalty iirc. And they prioritized the CL early on, too