Hazard to Madrid

https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2019/04/05/5ca7b5df468aeb3b3b8b4571.html

And from a very reliable source at Marca.

Altas:

Militao - check
Hazard - check
Rodrygo - check
Jovic - in progress
Eriksen - ?
Ndombele - ?
Marco Alonso - ?

Good to see they are active early! If all can be signed before August with this being a non international competition year will make for good training camp with revamped squad.

Normally I haven’t liked the operation exits until after the new signings as it can lead to training camp issues plus decreased sale values, in this case, it is probably the best approach. And if my list is correct, I think the only difficult signing might be Eriksen!

Marcos Alonso, the Chelsea full back?

AKA the drunk driver

It's how Bill randomly put him there lol. Is there even rumours of us being sort of interested in him?

Not too interested in having a murderer on the team. I’ll pass.

Doc wrote:It's how Bill randomly put him there lol. Is there even rumours of us being sort of interested in him?

Yes there are, I started them!

Have you watched him at Chelsea lately, serious question? If you are having issues with Marcelo, Alonso is gonna double that minus Marcelo's undeniable skill on the ball.

Yeah Marcos Alonso would be a huge downgrade, there’s a reason Chelsea want to be rid of him.

Marcos Alonso is a terrible scrub, lol why in God's earth would be sign that failure of a fullback? He is a wing back and only performs in a 3 man backline.

This is so bad lolz imagine trying to sign David Luiz because Varane is leaving

Bill wants him just because he's Spanish and a Madrid youth product. He's an absolute scrub and has no business playing in a top side.

See Nick, Sports, you’re not the only one who can stir things up!

Being serious for a moment!

Seems most here feel Marcelo is finished and should be replaced. Reguilon has been a good news story and although he is ok as a backup, we really need a more complete / experienced replacement to start instead of Marcelo. We have Theo, but I believe Reguilon is better and likely to be sold or loaned out again. So who might be suitable and available or reachable as the starter LB?

And no Doc, I haven’t watched Alonso, only his couple of games with NT.

Btw, the rest of my original post was serious re targets and getting the acquisitions done early!

A couple of rumors going around today. Zidane is thinking of Courtois , Lunin for next season (that one if true will really end Hala’s love for Zidane). I’m skeptical on this one as Zidane definitely seems to lean to Navas and Lunin has been a disappointment thus far.

The other one is Madrid may try for Pogba, but know it will be difficult ( lol although Sports would love that, we have in the past heard same thing re Mbappe and Neymar and apparently Pogba has already put in a request for a weekly wage of 500!!)

He'll look unbelievable in Royal White. Can't wait for fichado ffs

Man U would sell Pogba for the right price imo... his contract runs until 2022. So this year and the next are the windows where his worth is the highest. If they want to cash out, this is the time to do it.

A question for all the armchair tactical experts here; does this formation work?

-----------CF-------
Hazard---Isco---James
---------DM/CM---------

farfan wrote:A question for all the armchair tactical experts here; does this formation work?

-----------CF-------
Hazard---Isco---James
---------DM/CM---------

In Ultimate Team, not too bad. IRL that's another story.

Probably in theory and FM.

farfan wrote:A question for all the armchair tactical experts here; does this formation work?

-----------CF-------
Hazard---Isco---James
---------DM/CM---------

James!!! no way he comes back!!!

farfan wrote:A question for all the armchair tactical experts here; does this formation work?

-----------CF-------
Hazard---Isco---James
---------DM/CM---------

of course it works, it will yield a solid 2nd place in la Liga with the proper workhorses in midfield:
- 1 of 3 has vertical speed on counter
- 1 of 3 has quality on 1v1
- 0 of 3 have an advanced game OFF the ball, they all play with ball on their feet and hardly make runs
- 0 of 3 is reliable scoring goals and attacking the box
- 0 of 3 can be relied on to press
- 1 of 3 are good athletes

So all in all I would not do this

Defensively, that's such a disaster.  You're defending with 6 players basically and that includes Kroos and Marcelo. Not to mention that you're asking Ramos to play perfect positional CB without making stupid attacking runs or kamikaze tackles.

It's retarded.

And we can all assume the CF is Benzema and he is not a reliable goal scorer. Like at all. But in theory. It can work in theory but you're asking for basically perfect games from everyone in every mid to high level match.

farfan wrote:A question for all the armchair tactical experts here; does this formation work?

-----------CF-------
Hazard---Isco---James
---------DM/CM---------

Absolutely not.

Even

----------CF----------
Hazard----Oscar----Willian
-------Mikel--Ramires----------

would be better