- He could play for Real Madrid (photo by americanistadechipas)
Even though he has had a great season with Manchester United, Javier Hernandez is still being linked with Real Madrid. The 22 year old started his career at Manchester United in July of 2010 and less than a year later, he is being linked to a move away from Manchester United.
That is quite interesting. I thought Real Madrid would not be looking for a striker this season but reports have suggested otherwise. We have been linked with a move for Adebayor. No offense but Adebayor is just not Real Madrid stuff yet. I mean, he wastes a lot of chances and has a very limited game.
He cannot put a foot right after he takes a long ball onto his chest and thus has to pass the ball to someone else, almost every time he receives the ball. That I think will always work against him. He needs to develop some dribbling skills in order to take on defenders and create danger.
Anyway, Hernandez has scored 20 goals in 44 games this season with Manchester United which is quite impressive. He has just arrived in a new country, new team, new league and a new coach. It is not always easy to adapt this well.
What bothers me is that, his goals are team goals. There is no guarantee that he will be as successful at Real Madrid as he currently is at Manchester United. With Real Madrid, you have to do a lot of work by yourself. Team players are not always liked here at Real Madrid.
I do not think Jose Mourinho (in his right mind) would give a green signal to Chicharito. I don’t think Real Madrid need his kind of player and quite frankly, it is just his first season and a goal tally of less than 0.5 is not good enough for Real Madrid to be paying millions for this guy.
I think Real Madrid should instead work on forming a balanced squad with Benzema and Higuain in mind. Both are fantastic strikers and both need to be served with playing time in order to extract the best out of them.
Higuain will be fit next season and that means, either he or Benzema is going to have to warm the benches for a while. Here Mourinho’s man management skills will be tested to the fullest. With that, I am actually starting to think that Mourinho might actually sell one of the two. That would be really bad.
Benzema is a great goal scorer. I mean in a season where he has had a lot of problems both on and off the pitch, 26 goals is a wonderful ratio in a tough league.
I would also like to comment on the statement made by former Barcelona coach Cesar Luis Menotti who said that Mourinho acted like a coward against Barcelona.
A proper answer to this statement would require a long post so to cut it short let me put it this way. There are two ways to play. Attack or defend. First time Mourinho played Barcelona with Real Madrid at his side, he attacked and got hammered. I do think that Real Madrid did not deserve to lose that game 5-0, I think 2-0 would have been a perfectly fair result.
So Mourinho changed his tactics and went on the defensive. Every team does it. Even Barcelona did it against Real Madrid in the latter half of the season where Puyol was played as a left back. He and Dani Alves rarely went forward against Real Madrid. Especially in the Champions League 1st leg at Bernebeu.
In short, Mourinho was a coward for acting the way he did. He devised a planned and it worked. But thanks to some Barcelona comedy and some biased referee decisions, the final of Champions League will be played between Barcelona and Manchester United.
Whereas in all fairness, it should have been Real Madrid vs Manchester United.
What do you guys think? Do we really need another striker? Was Mourinho a coward for playing this Real Madrid side the way he did against Barcelona? HALA MADRID!!!!
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