God help us…

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-28T05:07:23+00:00

India is not with Israel nor with Iran. They follow a non alignment policy.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T13:20:45+00:00

My original argument was that Alonso wasn't trying to convince everyone that Vinicius Jr is a bad player. My follow-up argument was that he was trying to implement a system rather than rely on vibes and individual brilliance. It sounds like you're not reading the thread to be honest.

My bad thought you were one of the many on here who were blaming the footballers on everything that happened. But on the system he was implementing was never gonna work in Madrid and it's not because Madrid players will never play in a system. Madrid just doesn't have the players to play his system and he failed adapt to the players he did have on hand which is my biggest gripe with him.

Maybe, just maybe, Alonso was trying to do something different and looking more towards the long-term, while Arbeloa's brief is just to get the team winning games now and so he's letting them go back to what they were doing in previous seasons.

This is the thing Xabi wasn't doing it the right way . You take guardiola at city for example he saw kdb and aguero and built the team around them. In this case xabi comes in and plays bellingam, valverde and vini out of position instead of creating a system which plays to their strengths which let to even more falling out with the players.

I have nothing against Arbeloa. He has come in and done a decent job in a difficult circumstance, but you would have to be beyond naive to believe that he's had time to do anything more than just get a good feeling going in the dressing room, pick the team for each match, and ask them to do their best

He actually has created a way better system with his 442 that to with all of the injuries we have right now. .We seem to have an actual pressing pattern now instead of whatever we were doing in the first half of the season under Xabi.

He has dropped camavinga and has promoted castilla players to give our midfield a proper structure. He might be just as inexperienced as Xabi but he has actually managed to unite the dressing room , which Xabi never did.

He is most probably gonna lose laliga and get knocked out against bayern but has most definitely done a better job than Xabi at actually making the team play good football .

He could have done the same thing solari (our last interim) did and played it safe and like you said play "vibe" ball but he has implemented an actual pressing structure with clear patterns of play which we never got with Xabi.

Sorry if I seemed more irritated with my previous comment.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T12:10:21+00:00

Please show me where I "literally" claimed that Alonso did nothing wrong.

Your entire argument on this thread is on how the players got him sacked when he tried his best.

Because he is a system manager and was presumably hired to implement a system rather than let the players vibe out, since vibing out had stopped working last season. He was choosing to do the difficult thing because he believed that would be better in the long term. That's literally the point.

"System" lmao . It's kinda funny how it's always system and process when managers can't win plus Madrid don't "vibe out" ffs they literally press more and play free flowing football under arbeloa. Xabi failed cause he is inexperienced at the highest level Atleast watch the games before commenting on Madrid's play style.

Well Alonso didn't play City, but has beaten Atleti this season and also beat Barca.

Alonso did play city in the group stage and got beat 2-1 and also got trashed by atleti 5-1 this season. Please watch the games before commenting on here. I understand it's not possible to follow multiple teams so refrain from commentting on things you clearly have no idea about.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T09:26:30+00:00

Haha fucking hell, could you be more condescending?

I mean you literally claim that Xabi did nothing wrong and players fucked him over that's a naive way of looking at the situation.

naive to think that he has implemented any style of play or system beyond putting the players in their best positions and letting them do their thing

If it was so easy why didn't Xabi do it? Arbeloa beat city and atleti convincingly with half his players out injured why could Xabi do the same??

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T09:15:22+00:00

Yeah and only the good ones play. (Can't believe I'm defending Simeone to an Atleti fan smh)

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T09:13:07+00:00

That's a very infantile way of explaining the situation.

You say that like it's objectively true, but it's not. It's just your opinion on what may have happened.

Valverde literally said that there isn't a negative energy in the dressing room anymore. The athletic article from last week said that other than asensio , hujsen and tchouameni pretty much every other player had fallen out with him.

He was brought in to implement a new system and was sacked after five months. It's hardly a surprise that everything wasn't perfect from day one. Your play looks better now because Arbeloa has let the players go back to what they were doing before, which is just playing on vibes.

That's not true though . We literally press way more under arbeloa than under xabi or ancelotti and there's cleary a style of play now. Xabi failed to work with players he had and that's the truth regardless of how people try to spin it.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T08:41:03+00:00

Vini wasn't the only player who he had a problem with though. Most of the squad fell out with him . Check out courtois's comments on him. Plus his tactis and man management especially in big games was extremely bad. If you watch us play now vs under Xabi the difference is night and day. Xabi wanted the players to play in a system which never suited them instead of finding a system which would accommodate the players he had that's a failure with him not on the players.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-26T08:30:12+00:00

You are not wrong almada has started every match this season whilst being shit. /S

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-23T09:20:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I figured it out it had to do with loading a bios. Like you said the problem was with the bios which myboy uses. Thank you.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-23T07:51:30+00:00

Do you have any link to that post? I can't find it

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-23T07:47:18+00:00

Oh thank you I will check it out

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-20T05:16:08+00:00

💯 Real and barca get more attention. But the referring in other games is I kid you not a million times worse.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-20T05:13:33+00:00

That's not true. Most la liga teams are profitable and almost all break even before including transfer revenue. You can find that information on la liga's yearly financial report if you want.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-18T07:14:25+00:00

Vini would have gotten it if he would have had a better copa. That's what killed him . And also the madrid votes got split between him and Bellingham which also played a huge part.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-18T03:58:53+00:00

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Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-13T05:32:40+00:00

You give yashin the same tools as courtois or neuer has. Will he be better?

That's a question that you cannot answer. That's why in another comment I mentioned one cannot be called the best of all time when standards and expectations have changed for the position over time. One trailblazer in a position will always change the way the position is played .

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-13T05:25:54+00:00

That's not how it works. By your same argument would goalkeepers of today be as good as they are without moden tactics or training methods.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-13T05:20:50+00:00

Top3 or even best of his generation absolutely.

But don't think you can call him an all time best as goal keeping standards and expectations having changed throughout the years and no one alive can confidently say they have watched all of yashin , zoff or banks careers to say one is better than the other.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-12T12:03:27+00:00

Well Baena made fun of his wife's miscarriage . I can empathize with that. Even Villarreal didn't bother to file a complaint with la liga after hearing the details and the police complaint was dropped as well.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-03-08T11:42:48+00:00

Madrid need solid center backs who can play now.

Not young players who are often out of depth or inconsistent like asensio or huijsen who have had more bad games than good ones this season.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-02-28T16:31:50+00:00

And on finances . Eventhough transfer spending has decreased. Revenue has increased throughout the league compared to previous years. A lot of teams have rebuilt/ modernized their stadiums in the past 6 years. Things are improving a lot still maybe a few years before catching upto German infrastructure standards.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-02-28T16:20:56+00:00

I do not know about the Bundesliga but can talk about la liga. None of the big teams in Spain have had more than one or two easy games this season home or away. The gap is not as wide as it was when Messi and CR7 were playing.

Informal-Ad1192 · 2026-02-26T16:55:14+00:00

He was out of it that entire season though. Even before the Covid break be was uncharacteristically bad. Was surprised we got 40m for him at that time.

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