futbol_bill wrote:

Club is pissed at him for making a public request for salary increase, but no way this leads to him being sold. However if Neymar does come this year, it could very well put Di maria on bench.

Ganso wrote:i think di maria will get benched in the 4-3-3...

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:talking about Gnaso, kid was great last night, special feeling in his fet for passing the ball.

sportsczy wrote:shaven, you're as unbiased as i am when it comes to Di maria lol. Ganso too.

futbol_bill wrote:

Margera wrote:i really don't understand why we're looking for revamping our whole forward line all over again when we have world class players in all of our forward positions anyway, hell we even have world class forwards on our bench.

so i personally hope we won't go out signing kun / neymar / falcao etc....

after the signings of sahin and altintop only position we should be looking at is cb / rb depending on whether ramos will be moved to cb or not.

i also don't understand the deal with coentrao, the guy pretty much uses his left foot for everything and we want him to play rb for us, seriously ? i know he is quality but he has never played rb before so him playing rb for madrid scares me alot and sounds like very risky business considering his price tag.

Take a look at what they are doing.

1) Coentrao - we have a weakness in defense, growing age of Carvalho. They feel Ramos is the solution. Given no good CBs available, they are taking the best FB available. He has played a fair amount on right side (as MF or wing).

2) Sahin - we needed to improve our midfield specifiaclly our passing / play making capabilities.

3) Altintop / Callejon - we want to improve our bench strength.

4) Aquero - he's a better option than both Benz and Higgy - this is the only change that you can argue that may not be necessary. It's is debatable who of the three is better. My opinion is Benz hasn't consistently shown good form and has not earned his wages nor transfer price.

4) Neymar and Varane - these are both furtues deals. Neither one of them is likely to play with club this year. Logic is lock up talent as soon as you can (beats rivals and likely is a bargain price).

5) the only other possible change is a 3rd striker, likely either Morata or Adebayor.

and re guys on bench, I say we will see a lot more rotations this year. Mou will have an entire teams that he should not be fearful of using. This should stop his excuses of team being too tired.

buddytaller wrote:I don't think playing Ozil deep in midfield would be a good idea,

alex mahone wrote:with so many talents in the team, i think doing a fair a rotation is a must to keep our players maintain their quality, sustain their improvement, as well as keep them motivated
i think this is what you have to do when you have more than 11 players that deserve a starting role, fair rotation
and i don't mean just being backup for other players (this is the role for granero, altintop, etc i suppose)

and ozil did play lcm in diamond formation for sometime back in bremen when diego's around, he need to get use to it again though

mtfootball wrote:La Gazzetta dello Sport are saying we're close to signing Maicon.

shaven wrote:
for me that is why their are players who are in the level of rotation players, those who fight for the starter spots but should know how important rotation and back players role. specially in madrid most of them are quality starter for some teams but not in madrid. i think they are aware of that role like granero for ex, but with maria who wants an increase with his salary and knowing he will be affected in the 433. obviously he wants first time football. if he choose not to be a back up player he needs to find another team to get what he wants. just like raul and kaka. rual wants first team he went to another team kaka, accepted a back up role.

utilize ozil, why play deep if he is better not being there

alex mahone wrote:

so changing to 433 with sahin inclusion means someone who has previously a starter now has to be a back up player? lol, how is that fair? especially if that someone has proved themselves enough and earned it (based on last season performance), while on the other hand you're suggesting that sahin, the new comer, automatically get a starting role

and why it has to be 11 starting role and the rest as back up? we're obviously have more than 11 that should get starting role + some others that's indeed in different quality and suppose to be a back up

i support utilizing ozil in mid 3 because sharing 50/50 playing time with maria in front 3 will make both get too little playing time, so imo it should be maria that play a lot more in front 3 and ozil get additional playing time in mid 3

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:why wouldnt maria, granero and khedira play in a 433?

and we arent going to give up on the 4231 from one day to the next, we will still use it