Portugal also. Bernardo, Pepe, Bruno, Eder... Not clear-cut by any means.
Real Madrid’s best player of the last decade?
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In the last 10 years, it's Modric or Benzema who both contributed heavily to their success while rebuilding after Ronaldo had left.
I mean, I don't think he improved Juventus, let alone United...but he's probably the best RM player of all time and they wouldn't have won 4 CLs in 5 years without him. It's Ronaldo without question.
Agreed. Till he left Madrid he was the focal point of both manutd and Madrid winning silverware after silverware.
Ronaldo, it just has to be. They signed him for 80m, he scored 450 goals in 430 games or whatever it was, then sold him for 100m.
From 2010-2020:
1. Ronaldo
2. Ramos
3. Modric
From 2020-2023
1. Benzema
2. Modric
3. Vinicious
1. Ronaldo
2. Ramos
3. Modric
From 2020-2023
1. Benzema
2. Modric
3. Vinicious
Cristiano Ronaldo. Absolute monster and a club legend.
Has to be Bale.
Made Ronnie look good and still looked better.
Made Ronnie look good and still looked better.
Could easily have been nr. 2 after Ronaldo if not injured most of the time.
It has to be Ronaldo, but that doesn't mean that he was carrying his teammates, it's just that he was the best of all them.
After Ronaldo, it comes Modric,Marcelo,Benzema,Ramos etc.
After Ronaldo, it comes Modric,Marcelo,Benzema,Ramos etc.
Wish there was a Musk style online poll
Oh, come on now.
I strongly disliked the guy before it was mainstream in United circles, but-
how the hell can it not be Ronaldo?
I strongly disliked the guy before it was mainstream in United circles, but-
how the hell can it not be Ronaldo?
This is rubbish, we were clearly the best team in the league between 06-09 and then when Ronaldo left we weren't any more. If he'd stayed we'd have likely done 7 in a row till fergie retired, and I'd wager we'd have had a decent chance in the 2010 and 2012 champions leagues
Now the dust has settled on Bale leaving Madrid - how do Madrid look back on his career with them? Do they seem him as a club legend, given he played a mammoth role during their most successful period?
Varane or Casemiro obviously
This
Come on now. The narrative on him right now isnt good but at his peak he was one of the top handful to have ever played the game. Not only is he their best player of the last decade, he's the best player they've ever had.
It is obviously Ronaldo, come on.A whole host of options from their golden era. Ramos, Marcelo, Benzema, Modric, Casemiro, Varane, Kroos, Pepe. That’s without even mentioning someone like… Courtois. Who could choose a best player?
Cristiano, Marcelo and Ramos all left and they carried on winning stuff.
Has to be Kroos then.
Has to be Kroos then.
Because he has not been a part of Real Madrid's squad for 40% of the last decade.
The argument then is, did he do enough in that 60% of the time, compared to other players who were there longer?
Maybe.
If you take out ronaldos first 3 seasons it leaves about 300 goals he scored in the rest of his time at real, including a lot of decisive goals in their 3 in a row CL, the only 2 players you could make an argument for since they played the whole decade are benzema and modric (unless I'm forgetting anyone) so I'd still reckon Ronaldo from 2012/13 to 2017/18 is enough to beat those 2, though modric runs him close
Fantastic first season, was unstoppable.
Downhill after that, playing him was often to the detriment of the team overall because we were better with Isco in the team in a 442. He did score important goals of course.
Tbf every time I watch Casemiro lately he reminds me what a monster of a team they had.
Yes, I understand that.
but the use of the word "best" in the question, for me at least, makes it essentially impossible to choose someone else rather than Ronaldo,
who is considered the best Madrid player of all time / second only to Di Stefano.
Or maybe this was a consensus only a couple of months ago, and isn't anymore?
I don't know the answer but I'd be surprised it changed, even though Ronaldo declined to really comical extents.
if the question was something like "Which player contributed the most to Real Madrid's achievements in the past decade",
then I'd be more inclined to say that it's Modric or Benzema, taking everything into account.
But Ronaldo is a better football player than both, and it's not like he was at Madrid for a mere 1 or 2 seasons either.
If we stay with Madrid and go a decade earlier, I think their best player was Zidane, but he wasn't necessarily their most integral player to winning however much they won throughout the entire decade. That might be Casillas, for example.
Is this a WUM?
I think he went to Juve at the worst possible time for his last couple of good years. That squad was pretty lackluster around him. He'd have been better off playing at PSG and potentially getting them a CL after the last RM year.
It was a massive massive miscalculation on both parts, juve were obsessed with getting the cl and they usually were thereabouts thinking ronaldo could be the last piece of the puzzle and Ronaldo was probably infatuated by the idea of getting the cl with a third club so a match made in heaven right?
Turns out that juve squad was careening towards their end and aside from his very first season in which to be fair they got quite close they were no where near the quality required to get there so he for the rest of of his tenure there he ended up playing with washed ups and subpar youth with out of their depth managers leading the line.
And also juve seemingly bankrupted itself in part due to that transfer.
We would have probably made the cl final and quite possibly had won it the very next year had he stayed on.
I think he fancied winning Juventus their first Champions League title in over 2 decades and I guess he gained a lot of respect for the club after they applauded the bicycle kick goal he scored against them in the quarter finals. Had he reached that goal, he also would've become only the second player ever to win the CL with 3 different clubs and also the second player ever to win 6 CL titles overall.
In all honesty, I could see his reasons behind leaving Madrid and going to Juve, and I don't think it was a bad decision, even though it obviously didn't work out in the end.
Tommy Gravesen surely.
Ronnie of course.
Read all posts once but still can't decide if it's a serious thread or a parody
Still one of favorite football pictures. I can't look at this picture and not hear Bruce Lee noises coming out of Robinho's mouth
You invest so much of your time watching and following football only to have thinly veiled, ridiculous, emotional takes. This thread is a mess.
Casemiro and Varane innit.
NOBITA FOREVAAAAAAHHHH
Debatable
Legend has it Robinho is still hidden somewhere at Valdebebas and we got a lookalike who continued his career afterward. Nobody found him yet to tell him Gravesen is gone, he can come outStill one of favorite football pictures. I can't look at this picture and not hear Bruce Lee noises coming out of Robinho's mouth
Waiting for the who is Madrid's top scorer ever thread....if we find a way to discredit Ronaldo's goals.
The South African player, forgot his name.
For me I would say it’s Ronaldo.
The only person who you could argue has been as important for them is Ramos
The only person who you could argue has been as important for them is Ramos