Don’t think we have 150m+ Lying around.
Kylian Mbappe
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I think if he wanted to come here, we could get it to work. The problem is his willingness to leave Madrid at this moment in his career. Maybe eventually the racial abuse he gets from some Spanish fanbases (Atletico and Valencia) makes him consider a change. But not this season yet.
Rodrygo though, I can see them selling him to balance the books a bit.
Id fancy us to sign Rodrygo. All depends on whether we bin of Antony or not. Can’t be having 3+ first team players for 1 position as it would cause unrest. We need 2 quality players for each position mixed in with some youth prospects.
Considering Madrid is already thin upfront, buying Mbappe and selling Rodrygo would make no sense whatsoever. Let alone selling Vinny.
Brahim / Arda will be obvious choices. Loan in case of Arda, while Brahim probably sold.
Real Madrid don't need to sell any attackers to make space for Mbappe...
Vini Jr Mbappe Rodrygo
Bellingham
Brahim Diaz and Arda Guler will be rotation players and backups coming off the bench or starting every 3rd game to rest the starters.
Real Madrid are set for domination of Spain for atleast 5 years now. They'll get Mbappe and Alphonso Davies this summer. All they need now is a top right back. When the GK and CBs are back fit and they don't need to give Nacho any starts they'll kill it.
Great investments the last few years buying the best young players around.
Vini Jr Mbappe Rodrygo
Bellingham
Brahim Diaz and Arda Guler will be rotation players and backups coming off the bench or starting every 3rd game to rest the starters.
Real Madrid are set for domination of Spain for atleast 5 years now. They'll get Mbappe and Alphonso Davies this summer. All they need now is a top right back. When the GK and CBs are back fit and they don't need to give Nacho any starts they'll kill it.
Great investments the last few years buying the best young players around.
Mbappe isn’t a 9. He lacks so many attributes to be a 9 that it would be a waste of talent and money. He’s as bad playing 9 as Rashford is, it takes different attributes to play that position
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He may sign as a 9 but he’ll be back wide left before Christmas and after promises to others were made and broken imo
What impact do we think this will have on the career of Endrick?
Like hell he is. He isn't a 9 and doesn't like playing it but he's still the best player in the world. You put him anywhere on the pitch he'd still be a difference maker
He doesn’t like playing as a 9 and as a 9 he’s below the actual elite strikers playing in that position.
Rashford will be a 300 goal striker by the time he’s retired but he’s not even half that player as 9. Mbappe is right there beside him on that scale and it’s not like it’s a wait and see, we’ve already seen it.
I’d also have Bellingham in mind. If Mbappe drops deep playing off Jude then he loses even more to his game and if he plays off the shoulder it cuts off the space for Bellingham to move into.
It’s ok throwing around buzz words and phrases but in 2024 the small elements matter more than during any other era in football. Have we not see enough of this when Mbappe was partnered with fecking Messi and Neymar?!
They also have Endrick arriving the summer iirc
They'll have a interchanging front three, much like us in 08 , where you could argue that neither one of those 3 talented players enjoyed playing as a 9.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Bellingham continue to be the one in finishing off moves and getting those typical number 9 scrappy goals. The lad has shown a real strikers instinct in the area this year and I think that will continue even more so even if Mbappe arrives.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Bellingham continue to be the one in finishing off moves and getting those typical number 9 scrappy goals. The lad has shown a real strikers instinct in the area this year and I think that will continue even more so even if Mbappe arrives.
This is what will make things interesting. Ancelotti will have to invent something to keep everyone happy and if it works maybe people will start valuing more coaches who are very good at man management and controlling egos instead of idealising those who excel at making teams play with 200 different formations during a game.
Vini and Rodrygo were sent to Castilla first but very soon it became clear they were too good and joined the first team. Took them a couple of seasons to be who they are now.
Guessing Endrick will be the same at first. And depending on how he develops. Might take Rodrygos spot if we sell him.
The feck he is. As a 9 he's one of the 2 or 3 best in the world
I still don't understand where this "Mbappe is the bpitw" comes from. I haven't seen enough to suggest that.
Was it the world cup final?
The WC final is pretty much his average. Watch him play enough and it's really obvious
I have and he wasn't really good last season. He hasn't been great this season despite the stats. All this while playing in a not so great league while playing for by far the most dominant team.
He hasn’t looked great this season so far…imagine we get a broken product after all that
He's always decisive. He's not Messi, he won't dominate and look unplayable every game, but he's always making a differenceHe hasn’t looked great this season so far…imagine we get a broken product after all that
I think that is part of the problem these days with judging the top talents. No one can be like Messi, he was just so far above everyone else, but if a player doesn't dominate every game like Messi then they are not good enough.
Before Messi, we had the likes of Henry, R9, Baggio, Cantona and all the other attacking greats would come up with moments of magic to win games, but they were never involved for the entire game or dominating. Cristiano never did that either. It is the same for Mbappe, but people forget about what football was like before the brilliance of Messi.
Moments of magic and match winners have always been great to watch in football and that is what we should come back to expecting now that the era of Messi is done.
In fact Vini, Rodrygo, and Bellingham play way too much already.
And Joselu
I thought he might be one of the more “dispensable” ones if you do end up signing Mbappe as well. But yeah. Well stacked.
speaking of, here's the 10 best seasons of Cristiano's career, minutes per non penalty goals(rounded)
118
115
106
104
100
100
99
98
97
96
Can you guess which were his best seasons and which were his team's best seasons? Can you guess his team's worst?
I’m guessing his best = teams worst.
So focussed on feeding the goal scorer they forget the actual goal.
It's uncanny
16/17
07/08
11/12
10/11
09/10
15/16
17/18
13/14
14/15
12/13
His 2 best statistical seasons = his team's least successful*(out of 3). His two worst statistical seasons = his team's best
The man has 50 g+a in 36 games this season so far...He hasn’t looked great this season so far…imagine we get a broken product after all that
Stats have ruined the mordern game.
Easily. But that’s because Barca are a mess rather than anything else. With Mbappe their changes of European success increase significantly though.
Big Jim should offer him £300k a week and promise him he’ll leave the Nice football club to him in his will
For me Mbappe is easily the best player in the world. But he’s an arse imo and loves the games and limelight. Madrid is perfect for him and Perez is desperate for him. Madrid have to have the best and La Liga too. 2 years ago the chairman of la liga was on tv moaning because Haaland and Mbappe chouce oil money over Madrid/ La Liga. Wouldn’t be surprised if Perez is trying to get both again. Vin, Mbappe, Haaland, is some front 3 with Bellingham in behind. Each a superstar which is what Madrid want. I wouldnt want the Mbappe show at United it’s clear he wants Madrid. Would wreck our wage structure and every summer the narrative would be Madrid. No matter how good he is we need to build properly with solid foundations the Woodward era is over thankfully
Or baseless arguments.
He's obviously great but he brings so much drama that adding him to Madrid seems perfectly designed to generate headlines all season long.He hasn’t looked great this season so far…imagine we get a broken product after all that
I honestly think Perez wants him more because he's a big star than for any other footballing reason.
I honestly believe that at his future club, Mbapp will be more of a normal player than the "monster" he's been enabled to become at Paris
Perez has been obsessed for ages. Which I would understand if this was prime CR7 but the amount of effort has been dumb. We are literally fielding Joselu or playing without a striker due to this saga.
Lucked out with Jude turning into prime Di Stefano and being important all over the pitch.
I have no doubts he is one of if not the best attacking player in the world. I can only see him improving at Madrid, overall better opportunities and challenges for him than PSG. He's only 25, best years ahead of him.
I wasn't talking about football. He will become a better player for sure
Against Sociedad he looked his usual terrifyingly fast self to me.
Maybe Haaland is better, but I'd take Mbappe over Kane or Osimhen so yeah, I think the top 2 are in a tier of their own, or it's a top 4 of those guys, but I just can't quite see putting Osimhen or Kane above Mbappe as a #9, even though those guys are better at lots of traditional #9 stuff.
That's a real good point actually.