He's a SS, not a no 10. Also, he's capable of leading the attack on his own. He did that for Benfica against Frankfurt in the 1st leg and got a hattrick and an assist. It was one of his best games. I don't know why the coach moved him to the wing in the second leg match. I guess he didn't have the player to deploy on the wing..
Martial just signed a 5 year extension.... He isn't gonna leave. However, with James coming in.... I can see Martial upping his game.Sell Lukaku and Martial, and buy Felix
Not just calmly, he can hit them well too.
Think if anything that opinion is more accurate with the centre back for them we have been linked with a few times, who does look like another average centre back to me or of perhaps more relevance I would say Marcus Rashford. Rashford to me is like Wengers last Arsenal sides, just when you decide they are awful they play well for a while and just when you start believing they are decent they go pants again.
I’m sure he’s talented. But I look at what the likes of Mbappé, Rooney and De Ligt have had to do to be called ‘generational talents’ and think that I compare that to the Felix hype, which at this point is totally unwarranted for me. People are saying ‘next Messi/Ronaldo’, and history teaches us that many many have Mad the same sort of ripple as Felix is now.
That's just excitement with hyperbole. Right now, only Mbappe deserves to be considered a generational talent, because he's done it on multiple stages/teams and keeps upping his output season after season. Joao Felix could be a big hit or a big bust, same with Sancho, same with any other hyped up young player right now, but nowadays you have to take a big risk because all these super talented youngsters are now going for outrageous fees and if you miss out on that first major sale, good luck ever getting them to your team because the only teams who can afford those types of talents won't let them go if they pan out.
There needs to be some method to it. If we went around signing every hyped teenager from Portugal and similar leagues for 9 figures simply due to FOMO, it would be an unwise strategy. A player like Mbappé and De Ligt are different levels.
I suspect he'll go for around £50 to £60m personally. Paying a £100m for him straight from the Portuguese league is very risky.
Oh right ok, that is hyperbole, I hate "the next" kind of comments anyway. I think he has a lot of ability but its been one season, Deligt for example is only being talked about in those terms now after about three seasons. The supposed price for him is sky high, but hardly the only player like that at the moment.
Felix looks good but I agree with you + I'm not completely sold on his talent the way I am with Sancho. For me, the latter looks proper proper elite.
A SS is typically considered a 10 IMHO. He continues to be called the next Ronaldo, but he’s nothing like Ronaldo, doesn’t even occupy the same areas on the pitch. He’s not a midfielder either. He reminds me of Kaka in his movement, passing and absolute dead calm on the ball.
Martial is more likely to become a stroppy teenager again like he seemingly did when Sanchez was signed. Not sure the lad has the interest in fighting for a position.
You and I remember the Sanchez saga very differently. Martial always tends to do better with competition for his spot. Same with Rashford. These players aren’t ready to be guaranteed starters and need other players to challenge them. Sanchez got a starting spot over an in-form Martial just because of his name and kept it for longer than he should have. Once Martial got his chance, he and Pogba were ironically United’s two best players until Mourinho got the sack.
Why do you think madrid will pay that much for kaka 2.0? Dybala is Messi 2.0 and they are not breaking the bank for him.
Well in that case, he'll be offloaded then. I don't see Ole giving him too many chances.
Or maybe not sell. Maybe not every player jizzes himself upon the sight of a white shirt. Hopefully this frenzy that you only had a successfull career if you played for Barça or Real is over.
Touché. Even better.
That's not going to happen, those 2 are the 2 elite clubs with the most pull over the years for most footballers, but pretty much exclusively for any spanish/Portuguese speaking footballers.
This man is into Crypto!
It is true that South American and Portuguese players have a preference for the Spanish clubs, but not too long ago, if somebody played for the top English or Italian clubs, they know they'd be at the top of the world. The likes of Man. United or Milan were not seen as stepping stones with Barça and Real as the only acceptable final destinations.
Saying they’d sell for 100 is going to invite bids under.
Fair enough on Barcelona (who still had a huge draw for most South Americans prior to the Messi era), but do you know anything about Real Madrid's history? To try and reduce it to Cristiano made them overperform compared to their history is ridiculous and shows a seriously limited knowledge of the club, especially with the paltry return on La Liga in his era. Real Madrid are the biggest club in the world as far as achievements in football.
My biggest mistake when referring to RM's history was when I mentioned the 60s. It should have been 50s instead and I corrected it. I'm very well aware of their history and they are indeed the most successful club ever. But they also won most of their European titles in two eras, I think it's fair to name them the Di Stefano era and the Ronaldo era. Add the "Galactico" era and you have 12 of the 13 EC/UCL titles in periods that put together sum only 15 years, divided in periods of five years each (1956-1960; 1998-2002; 2014-2018).
Ah well, of course....every club is subject to circumstances. But where I disagree with you is on your assumption that their dip in form is going to lower the prestige those clubs have on South Americans. I think they are always going to be the two clubs with the most draw for not just South American players, but many players of European countries as well. Every top player in the world seems to have either a dream of playing for Barcelona or Real Madrid, and even without CR7 it is not changing for Real Madrid.
It is quite mind boggling indeed
