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Miremoses1:
I use to think Salah is a Godly fellow, his reaction and expression when Lukita won the award shows the guy is a typical Egyptian fellow. Wicked man

The guy is funny sef. What did he do to deserve the award over Modric and CR7 sef? He should jejelly wait his turn. He has a bright chance of upsetting Mbappe and Neymar at least once when the old guard pass the torch.

-Lord

hardeycute:
Congratulations to Luka Modric






















Who else thinks Kroos was the better player last season?

They included world cup performances as well. In which case Kroos doesn't even come close.

In terms of talent tho', I think Modric and Kroos are on the same level. It's just the level of energy in Modric is UNREAL. Looking at both of them play, you wouldn't immediately realize Modric is four years older than Kroos.

-Lord

Netfilix:
For a player to have won best world cup player, and UEFA best player when Messi and Ronaldo are still on the highest ground... I won't be surprised if he went on to win the Balon D'or as well.

In 2012, Iniesta won the UEFA Best Player's Award and Messi won the Ballon D'Or.

Here's to hoping history doesn't repeat itself and we can have a Ballon D'Or midfielder. France Football apologized to Iniesta for not giving him a Ballon D'Or. Well now is their chance to prove they meant it.

Modric FTW. It's his first and last chance to get the Ballon D'Or; he'd be the perfect talent to end the Ronaldo-Messi decade run. Pretty symbolic as well. Kaka handed it over, Modric took it back.

-Lord

Congrats the Maestro Modric! You deserve it!

-Lord

RO16 sure!

-Lord

The true Magician LM10.

-Lord

The General himself! Ramos on point.

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usbcable:
If he wanted to remain in the city of madrid there is Rayo, Leganes, Getafe for him to choose from.

Shey na if the clubs wen u dey mention ready to sign am.

Transfer window ends today if I'm not mistaking, it's not like he has the luxury of time or choice really.

-Lord

usbcable:
Who will Mayoral bench in Sevilla?

He should have gone to Alaves and the likes not Sevilla nah.

He'd bench your boy Yedder.

Quite frankly I haven't heard of any other club that's interested in him. And following our hijack of Mariano, Mayoral may be a peace offering to Sevilla. Until he blows up and we go for him again...

-Lord

Miremoses1:
last last, we might end up selling him(Mariano) next season just like morata. I just hope Lope gives him enough playing time, especially in the CDR matches and some of the CL group matches and maybe a super sub in the league. We need someone who can make an impact from the bench.

Lope should not even think of starting him in the CL. Knowing UEFA, our group wouldn't be funny this year. The CdR and the League will provide enough games to run that experiment. He is a good player to make an impact from the bench.

But 12 months ago we had CR7, Benz, Morata, and Mariano. Now we have Benz and Mariano (Mayoral is leaving for Sevilla). One would be a nutter to believe Perez ever has/had a plan. That n*gga is out of his depth. Just look how low our expectations have fallen.

Please Benz and Bale should maintain their form in anyway possible.

-Lord

Miremoses1:
easy sir. BTW I'm now happy we have a real challenge for big Benz.

Challenge ke. Benz will play all the UCL and important La Liga games whether he is scoring or not. Mariano does not have the experience or ability to bench Benz. Mariano is backup for when we have to rest Benz or when he enters a goal scoring drought or if Benz gets injured.

-Lord

Eyedea:
Really? Thank God, he's better than that mumu mayoral

Don't think that's fair on Mayoral.

We were the ones who sold Mariano last year for 8m. Now we're paying roughly 3 times more within 1 year because he had more playing time. It was the same thing with Morata, and I think Mayoral will become much better with regular playing time.

Mariano is an improvement, although he wouldn't have ever entered my list of potential signings. Seems like a last-ditch option with the transfer window closing in a few days.

-Lord

Netfilix:
Congratulations GOAT, Goal of the Season winner!

Ronaldo topped the poll with nearly 200,000 of the total 346,915 votes!

Keep it coming mate!

-Lord

sod09:
ozil is feeling the heat already, i don't think he will last a season with emery with the news im hearing.
one thing emery is doing is he doesn't have a favorite yet if you do mistake he take you off or bench you.
im guessing auba may not start our next match

#saynotolazyplayers

Good on Emery, because the buck stops at his table.

There used to be a standard for Arsenal players. Don't make the cut, go sit your a$$ on the bench.

-Lord

Miremoses1:
Marcelo: "To be honest, I was surprised by my change but I respect the coach's decision, I wanted to continue because I feel good and 100%."

I think Lope subbed him because marcelo attacked tomuch last night, man forgot his a defender.

Or he just wanted to change and try out Nacho on the LB position so as to get him used to the position. Nacho is the backup LB this season. Coentrao is back but Lope is having none of it.

-Lord

Unlimited22:
You guys? I'd rather support Alaves or Valladolid than support Barcelona.
I'm a Blue. Got it?

Sorry for the mix up.

Well you do get my point, Marcos Alonso has been brilliant in the last few games. Been looking at your games this season because of Sarri, Hazard, and my boy Kovacic.

-Lord

Netfilix:
Who says otherwise?

Why did you bother replying him? He just wants to pull someone's leg. Trolling 101.

When we lose, they'd also go look for a game where we lost to the same team with Ronaldo on the pitch. Juve lost to Lazio at their home last season, this season with Ronaldo on the pitch they won. Yet if you go on BWRAO and other Juventini sites, you wouldn't see CR7 fans chalking it up to the Ronaldo effect.

4 days to the end of the transfer window and Perez & co. have not bought a backup striker. Let's just proceed to tempt fate this season.

-Lord

Unlimited22:
The problem is that you guys have too many attacking/striking defenders.
Your captain, for example, is the 13th highest goalscorer still active in La Liga. From fuccking centreback.
Marcelo sometimes forgets that this isn't that season he was played on the wing, and that he is now playing at left back.
Carvajal wants to whip crosses in all day long.
Na Varane and Navas go defend am only them?

I get your point but I don't think it's just that.

You guys had Alves who had more assists than some of your midfielders. How many times have we seen Messi float the ball over the defense to an on-rushing Jordi Alba. Mendy has turned into some kind of wizard in crossing at Man City. Even Juve have Cancelo/Sandro doing major damage as RWB/LWB this season. Marcos Alonso, Alaba, Kimmich...

And about Ramos, Pique too goes forward many times than most defenders. In the modern game, defenders are becoming more of an attacking threat. They pitch in when they can, and so I don't understand why others can make it work and we can't.

-Lord

Miremoses1:
our defence is sh*t, Girona would have scored 2 more if not for Carvajal's right foot blocking that dangerous shot and navas coming out of his line to play the ball out.

Imagine Ramos leaving his defensive duties just to go and score. I'm just glad we overcame this stone heads, another huge test for us is against athletic Bilbao, those guys messed with us real good last season.

Any decent team with a good attacking threat will be a huge test.

We need this defense because the Bale/Benzema honeymoon wouldn't continue ad infinitum. There'd be games when things are slow or doesn't go well for them. And then we'd be expecting our defense to hold a slim lead. I just have this feeling that when push comes to shove, the defense will fall apart like a pack of cards.

Marcelo, Ramos, Varane/Nacho, Carvajal, Casemiro--the best players in the world at their respective positions. In the same game that we have Bale and Asensio who should be covering for the RB/LB respectively. And somehow the defense is still sh*tty! It astounds me!

-Lord

usbcable:
Theire high press was their undoing.
They tired out

It wasn't so much the tiring out. The whole idea of a high press early in the game is to get a lead, cement it, then slow down, let the opposition come at you, then blast on the counter using conserved energy.

They got the first part right, was unable to consolidate with a second, Madrid grew into the game, and by that time it was too late. Even Liverpool gas out after 70 minutes, and that entire team is built for the high press.

Game opened up, Madrid found acres of space gaping, Bale couldn't have asked for a better gift.

-Lord

veekid:
Girona scores against Real Madrid after 15 minutes! Keep it up

Sorry fam. 17 points go hard una replicate this season.

haymekus:
The girona team would have ripped barce to shred had we played against them yesterday

Don't be so sure, Girona was wasteful today.

Spanish teams are good, na finishing dey worry many of them.

-Lord

Miremoses1:
Full time.

Girona 1-4 Real Madrid

3 points in the bag. Unto next week.

But seriously, what is Lope doing with his boys all week that our defense barely improves week to week. Is it a RM curse or something.

-Lord

usbcable:
How did that 4th goal stand?
Benz was offside nah

Let's count our blessings.

usbcable:
Girona is no walk over team oooo.
We did not beat them over 2 legs last season.

So give them due respect

Go and watch our first Girona game again. They sat back, defended all through and hit us when our defenders went to nap. They had a completely different approach to this game. From the get go, they came at us. It cost them in the end, especially with the 3rd and 4th goals; but if they had taken their chances in the first 55 minutes of the game, the FT scoreline would've been reversed and they'd be the ones hitting us on the counter.

The scoreline is great, but it's like our Fuelanbrada game. Navas had two brilliant saves, Carvajal cleared a ball on the line, we were broken down more times than I can count. In the first 20 minutes, it was open season at the Marcelo wing. We mustn't sweat or count on our opposition to be wasteful to win games.

Imagine for a second if it was Man City we played, we'd be begging them to keep the scoreline respectable.

-Lord

Perfecto!

Benzema this is your season!

-Lord

Rajmeista:
2018 world cup best player of the tournament on the bench.

2018 world cup best keeper of the tournament on the bench.



Hmmmm.

I thought we've settled this. Let the man tinker with his squad.

It's Girona, the team on the pitch should be steamrolling them. Why Girona even has the guts to come at the team perplexes me. If they were more clinical, it should be at least 3:1 now.

And this is almost the same team (way stronger even) that lost to Leganes in the CdR. The team shouldn't be struggling against Girona.

Where's the press we were accustomed to seeing in the pre-season by the way? I guess old habits die hard.

That said, I see no reason why Vinicius is shipped off to Castilla. We had Theo and Hakimi last year on the bench and at least gave them a chance for a year. Vinicius should get that too.

-Lord

hopefulLandlord:
If they come to a thread where Madrid fans meet to get screenshots of bullish fans after the fact in order to laugh at people like me then they have serious issues. if they do that I'd just laugh it off

Simple. Nai you carry matter go Jalingo b4. U ehn!

-Lord

hopefulLandlord:
Because I was so bullish about my club winning a trophy we eventually lost I should then stop being bullish?

We are winning our 4th straight UCL, the league too while we give Cheaterlona the copa del rey and the pichichi

Who is asking you to stop being bullish? As much as the fan base is gloomy about our chances this season, there's no one who'd reject a treble if it landed on our laps.

But it's one thing to be bullish and another to ruffle feathers unnecessarily.

Na simple question I ask. Shebi if they troll us with that statement of yours, it would count as playful banter? Because that is the kind of statement that gradually turned Barkabots thread to the dustbin it currently is where everyone goes there to sh*t on them even if they win a double but crash out in the UCL QF.

-Lord

Miremoses1:
yes, we had 48,466 fans in attendance yesterday.

That's the lowest in over NINE years at the Bernabeu.

Maybe its because of the late fixture or maybe because of the exit of the iconic one.

It'd pick up. But it's not our first late fixture.

There's also the ATM hammering to take into consideration. The team will need several good results to get more people in the capital on board. Thankfully, we have a decent stretch of matches with weak opposition.

The attendance is not even the issue. It's when we are trailing or have a draw in the latter stages in Bernabeu and the crowd gets restless that's the huge elephant in the room. Then who knows how far into the season we can keep up our press.

Hopefully the League is getting increased viewership from other markets from this late night whatever to offset the loss of local attendance revenue.

-Lord

hopefulLandlord:
How dare I "hope" something awesome happens to a club I support?

Because your hope for us to win the Super Cup did not stop ATH from tearing us a new one.

You're making it seem like CR7 left because there was deep animosity between him and the club. Of course we all want Real Madrid to win the UCL a record 4th time regardless of the opposition; but it's not because CR7 is our Neymar.

I'm not even going to argue this. If heavens forbid we end this season trophyless, it wouldn't be funny on this thread. I don't want potential sympathizers turning to trolls.

CR7 already has 2 trophies in the bag even if he doesn't play a game; we're the ones making do with a lot of if scenarios and hoping Barca has a sh*t season so we can get something locally. Let's be guided and concentrate on stuff that's important.

-Lord

hopefulLandlord:
Hopefully we meet in final so I can watch Ramos lift the big eared trophy again only this time Ronaldo would look on with disappointment. its a pity Ronaldo and Kovačić would not join the likes of Isco, Benz, Bale, Ramos, Marcelo etc as players that won 4 straight UCL titles

I hope if the fans leaving screenshot this statement and use it to troll us if this doesn't happen, you'll call it playful banter?

I wonder why everything has to be confrontational.

-Lord

hopefulLandlord:
You think he's favouring Spanish players, I disagree. I think we've argued this before so no need for that again

many of those that think he's favouring Spanish players would look at that lineup and make a mental image of bringing it up if we didn't win or play well. we won so they couldn't bring it up

Anytime we lose or draw it would be brought up over and over again so those times we win is an opportunity for me to take digs at those that would've brought it up otherwise. Let me enjoy those moments in peace.

Fair enough.

-Lord

KinzyeWriter:
Miremoses1... LordAdamX... And others see you in the UCL

Au Revoir. It was nice having you around.

I'm hoping Real Madrid and Juventus do not meet in the UCL; it'd be like a Portugal-Nigeria or Spain-Nigeria fixture to me.

-Lord