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250 million go down the drain, as Real Madrid loose Again
Well. Here I was, thinking that wednesday (or was it tuesday) night is going to be the night that I see the end of two things. One, my grueling semester and second, Real Madrid’s streak of 5 consecutive failures to move past the knockout stage of the Champions League. Which is, quite frankly a disgusting stat for a club as rich and successful as Real Madrid.
Anyway, both of my “one and two” did not happen. My finals got postponed to after 22 march and Real Madrid lost the match against Lyon, thanks to Higuain, to continue this impressive streak of 6 consecutive years of non stop elimination from the knockout phase.
As expected, the media, the fans and the players alike went berserk and went on some of the most furious rants I have ever read on the net,more precisely, on goal.com and real.theoffside.com. The latter apparently dedicated a whole post to it I think when the post was titled “Vent Your Furies/Troll All You Want” in which readers were given full freedom to let their not so kind words out on the forum.
I cannot say I did not want to do that but what I can say that, this is the moment we should all remain calm because if there are two qualities that Champions show then those are patience and persistence to follow the right path, no matter what the situation.
Talking about situation, the situation at Real Madrid is a little less than what you traditionally call “STABLE”. Pellegrini’s head is again being called for because of the obvious reasons, though I think that it is simply not because of Real Madrid’s performance that Lyon beat us. It is something with this Champions League stage, because we have been getting knocked out so often by the same team, again and again. People say Pellegrini is making a mess of Perez’s Neo Galacticos and that Mourinho is being courted by Real Madrid.
Let me make one thing very clear to these people and that is, MOURINHO will not, in ANY SITUATION, become Perez’s puppet like some of these no name coaches can and do become. Mourinho will want things where he wants those things and when he wants those things. Any sort of involvement from the admnistration is going to lead to problems if Mourinho is incharge as we all can witness to that he did at Chelsea. Despite being hugely successful, he left the club. Why?
For the same reason that Abramovich (Chelsea’s owner) wanted Mourinho to bring in star players and pick players according to their brand value not for their performance and what did Mourinho do?. Walked out in the middle of the season when Chelsea were really in a delicate position as Manchester United had a slight lead over them in the English Premier League.
Anyway, what happened happened but I would only prefer Mourinho if Perez’s promises not to get involved in player purchases and player selection, only then Moruinho will be able to win something for Real Madrid otherrwise I would rather go with Pellegrini or hell, even Bernd Schuster if current ways are to be implemented in the future as well.
The bottom lines is that there are plenty of solutions being presented by plenty of people but one thing is for sure that, one elmination from the Champions League does not mean that the season is over for Real Madrid or the Neo Galacticos has failed. It takes a season for two for players go gel together and start seeing their moves getting connected on match days.
Otherwise, Perez could (and probably would) go on another spending spree next summer to further strengthen this side (which is on paper the best side in Europe hands down). My favorite for the job would always be Capello. He is the only one who can win us the Champions League if given enough time and oh yeah, if given enough tolerance because of the way he plays his teams ie, totally defensive football with lots of running and chasing the balls all over the field.
Mourinho cannot guarantee you Champions League, he only won it with Porto, could not do it with Chelsea where he had infinite supply of money and almost a complete team so why would he achieve that feat with Real Madrid? I think Capello’s Real Madrid was really starting to become the current Barcelona when our good and extremely honest buddy Calderon decided to kick him out.
Anyway, my opinion is not what counts. I am just a simple guy with a little bit knowledge about Real Madrid and a hell a lot of passion. What do you guys think? Have Real Madrid really wasted their 250 million? or getting knocked out of the Champions League by a team whose whole club is not worth as much as Real Madrid’s spending spree for this season alone?
Let me know your thoughts. I am sitting here and I am all ears. Waiting for your comments.
HALA MADRID!!!
