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@MadridXtra He’s never played 10 great games and secondly he knew what he signed up for when he joined Madrid - if he can’t hack it he can fuck off.

🗣️ Eduardo Camavinga: “Football is an ungrateful game. You can play ten great games, and people will forget all of it if you have one bad game where you make a mistake.”

@theMadridZone @COPE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭

🚨🚨💣 BREAKING: Ferland Mendy is INJURED and out for 5 MONTHS. @COPE ❌

@theMadridZone We’ll be coming back to this quote next season when we win fuck all again

🚨 Alvaro Arbeloa: "ALL teams run more than us. We need to run more, pressing and defending. Talent alone is NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE. Players have to UNDERSTAND THAT. That's what REAL MADRID is about. Real Madrid was NOT built by players who go on the pitch wearing a tuxedo."

@theMadridZone @tjcope They offered him an extension 🤣🤣🤣🤣

🚨 Ferland Mendy has missed 170/393 games due to injury. @tjcope

@theMadridZone I’ve lost total interest in this club - that’s how shit the team is. Perez out

🚨 Halftime. Espanyol 0-0 Real Madrid. Thoughts? 🧐

@GlbalMadridista I initially get why they kept him (he’s the best defensive LB itw), but if the guy can’t play more than one game every few months, it’s time to let him go or ask him to retire the same way hazard did. Enough is enough

Please tell me Mendy is not injured again. I have never seen anything like this.

@managingmadrid The solution is simple - the dictator either presses and works hard off the ball or remains on the bench/stands. That’s where perez comes in and sides with the manager.

"Mbappe was supposed to be the guy that fattens the margin of error — that takes the offense to another level. On the surface, he did his part: He’s scored 85 goals in the past two season, and that includes a slow start to his Real Madrid career as well as missing seven games this season due to knee problems. But his goals came with a cost: The team’s defensive shape fell off a cliff, and the structure of the team broke over and over again with him on the field. Vinicius, nominally a hard working winger on defense, had his defense dip when Mbappe was on the field (and not when Mbappe wasn’t). My theory: ‘if that guy doesn’t defend, why should I’? The defensive shape looked better when Vinicius was paired with Gonzalo Garcia or Brahim Diaz. Paradoxically, despite Mbappe scoring nearly 60% of Real Madrid’s goals, the team didn’t look too worried about Mbappe’s absence in certain games. For example, in a four game stretch without him, they outscored opponents 14-5. Three of those four games were against Manchester City (twice) and Atletico Madrid. Despite being reliant on Mbappe’s goals when he’s on the field, the team looked confident in scoring without him, and part of that was because Valverde had much more offensive freedom without Mbappe. Valverde, in Munich, was a ghost, in part because Arbeloa needed him to do defensive work deep trying to accommodate Mbappe, Bellingham, and Vinicius higher up the field. The question is: How does any of this make sense? Real Madrid added Kylian Mbappe to a Champions League winning team, and it tanked. Part of the explanation is tactical, part of it is psychological. Mbappe is not a spiritual leader the way Benzema was. He puts his head down and does what he knows how to do. Benzema was more of a leader, a rallier — a man who could pump ice into his veins and tell his teammates ‘I got this, we’ll be ok’ when the team was backed into a wall. He gave directions. Teammates listened. The tactical aspect is also clear: Mbappe likes freedom to operate in whatever zone he feels like operating in. That’s often deep, in the left half-space, in close proximity to where Vinicius is on the left wing. That’s not dissimilar to where Benzema liked to be; but Benzema also could act as a target in the box when the team needed him to, and he also had tremendous off-ball work rate and led by example. The solution, from a tactical standpoint, if both players have to play, is also straightforward and not talked about enough, but admittedly more challenging in practice than merely putting it into words: Real Madrid need to recognize, collectively, on the fly, what run the team needs and it requires a constant recalibration of where Mbappe is. They have done better at this specific wrinkle over the past two months. Mbappe did make a lot of the right runs he was supposed to make against Bayern, and when he wasn’t there, Valverde or Thiago Pitarch would make that central forward run instead so that the team remained fluid with options. Most recently, against Real Betis, it was Bellingham acting as the target. The other tactical concern is more challenging: The defensive side of things. If Real Madrid are to generate more chances without hurting their defensive line, they need to be masterful counter-pressers — something Mbappe is better at than when he’s asked to sit into a mid-block where his presence alone makes the first line of defense vulnerable. The ease at which opponents slice through is because of the numerical superiority they boast once passing the forwards. All of a sudden, the midfielders and defenders tread water marking more than one player. That’s where finding the right coach becomes challenging, because the tactical concerns they will face won’t go away, and every coach wants his players to work hard, run, press, and make different runs. Every coach will have a difficult task doing these things with this team — hence why the board should look at holding players accountable as much as the coaches they bring in. There was a promising high press brewing with Xabi Alonso earlier this season, but for reasons discussed to death, that team evaporated and Alonso was fired. Arbeloa’s record is even worse. The main difference between Arbeloa and Alonso is that the players and board both like Arbeloa — though he is a dead man walking anyway and part of the reason the board likes him is because he says what the board wants him to say, which is unhealthy in itself. Alonso was less diplomatic and more authoritative. Many felt that’s exactly what the team needed given what happened the season prior. Alas, finding the man who can balance everything is challenging. Jurgen Klopp, for example, is a legend. The most obvious question to him is the same one I asked Alonso last summer during the Club World Cup: ‘How will you press with a forward who doesn’t press’?" - @KiyanSo : managingmadrid.com/kiyans-observa…

@Rcb_Xtra When we don’t make top 2 we’ll know exactly who to blame - pure stupidity

DK on this RCB collapse 🗣️: (To Star) "I'd rather take my batters getting out for being positive rather being cautious. Such nights do come in this format of the game"

@RCBTweets Massive job because unless these cunts win the toss, they don’t have a fucking clue what to do. Bethel has been a flop, useless middle order when we lose several wickets and constantly playing players out of knick players.

Massive job ahead with the ball. 👊 Believe, 12th Man Army. ❤️ #PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2026 #GTvRCB

@Rcb_Xtra These guys are specialists in throwing their wicket away - literally a repeat of the RR game. Middle order have been piss poor all tournament. Salt needs to come back bethel has added nothing as well. Time to drop jitesh enough is enough

I knew we were going to need Krunal the batter tonight. We really not good at setting the target without one of Kohli & Salt playing long.

@GlbalMadridista Both attacks are so fluent and more importantly, there’s not even a hint of selfishness among any of the forwards.

Watching the first half of this match reminds me of how far we are from where we need to be. What an incredible match. What outstanding football. And how depressing.

@GlbalMadridista No point getting our hopes up with this one - guillem balague said he’s heard it might be allegri with Modric as no. 2 which might sound more realistic.

Klopp and Kroos have a very good relationship. Their houses in Mallorca are right next to each other. The latest promising rumor is that Klopp could come with Kroos as his number 2. I think all Madridistas would love to see this. Technically speaking nothing to stop this. Just an agreement.

@rmd_perez It’ll be allegri with Modric in a similar role to what zizou had under Ancelotti - klopp is too good to be true

يورغن كلوب هو مدرب ريال مدريد القادم معلوماتي السريه ان لديه اتفاق سري مع فلورنتينو بيريز منذ شهر 12!!! كل شي مخطط له .. كان يُريد تعيينه بعد تشابي الونسو لكن كلوب رفض استلام مشروع ليس مشروعه وطلب الانتظار الى الصيف ويقيم خياراته كلوب شهر 12 اخبر بيريز ان سياتي بالصيف تفاصيل صغيره وسيتفق كلوب مع بيريز في كل شي لانه ستكون لديه صلاحيات كبيره للغايه في السوق يقول المقربين انها اطول مفاوضات مع مدرب فلورنتينو بيريز يبذل مجهود اكثر من ماتتصور بكثير الابطال لا ينهزمون🤝🇩🇪

@rajsinghchohan No top manager wants to come to Madrid and I don’t blame them

Was thinking about this Real Madrid manager situation in last few days. And they’ve snookered themselves. •Experienced + player-driven coach (Ancelotti) couldn’t maximise the current squad. •Young + game model-driven coach (Alonso) couldn’t •Young + player-driven coach (Arbeloa) couldn’t There’s only one choice left without making a big sale like Vini or Mbappé sold. Experienced + game model-driven coach. And they must also have elite man-management skills to get them to work off-the-ball. That is Klopp.

@MadridXtra @miguelitocope Guaranteed we only sign one cb this summer 🤣 - absolute circus

🚨 BREAKING: Éder Militão WILL MISS the WORLD CUP. He is set to undergo SURGERY after relapsing. @miguelitocope 💔

@K3N3_X This fucker wants ronaldo level wages btw lol - genuinely haven’t seen a worse player when it comes to finishing inside the opposition box.

Like what is this Vini?? What exactly is this????

@mxdric It’s gonna take a complete squad overhaul - 90% of these cunts have no hunger left after winning one two ucls.

The worrying thing about this squad is that I really don’t see what they’re going to do in the summer that makes us competitive again

@realmadriden @KMbappe Mbappe out

👉 @KMbappe, 100 matches in a Real Madrid shirt.

@BlancoInsight Don’t feel sorry for him at all - if you’re just gonna be a “yes” man then he clearly prioritised monetary gain over doing what’s right for the club that he claim he loves. This whole club is filled with self-interested individuals. Perez has to leave

I feel bad for Arbeloa. They messed his development as a coach and put him in one of the most chaotic environments. I said, and I’ll say it again, he did what he could. You need to be top-tier coach to manage these group of players. When was the last time Madrid didn’t suffer?

@GlbalMadridista C’mon Miguel - are we really going to blame the refs every time? We were so poor for the entirety of the second half and in fact for the entirety of the season. This club has become a circus and I reckon the only solution is that the socios call for Perez’s resignation

This ball was heading straight to the goal. The hand of the defender is not stuck to the body. And his hand blocked the shot. This was a penalty. And the commentators in Spain cover it up. Welcome to La Liga.