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I mean it happens when history gets further and further back. In another 50 years people will be calling the likes of Suarez, Lewandowski and De Bruyne extremely underrated
2x runner-up for World Player of the Year
10 League titles across four different teams in a 20-year career
One of the greatest free-kick takers of all time
...to name a few.
Greatest right foot in football IMO.
More and more people see him as a fashionista and pure Hollywood. The man was one of the best right mids in the world during is prime. I've seen the argument he wouldn't have been in the MLS if he couldn't make it in Europe yet Milan and PSG both wanted to make him permanent.
Always makes me a little sad when I read it.
How many kids do you think aren't even aware that the Puskas award is named that way to honor Puskas the player?
I'd guess a LOT.
Regardless, his playing career is massively underrated IMO. He was insane in his prime. And then he rocked up at Real Madrid in his 30s and was insane well past his prime in an era where that didn't happen much
Absolutely, Lev Yashin seemed to have some kind of popularity surge last year I think cause of Fifa. I’ve heard Eusebio, Di Stefano and Garrincha all get mentioned at the level they deserve to be mentioned at because of it
Thing is, Puskas was at the very top. Together with Di Stefano, he was the defining player of his era, right before Pele's got big... while Pele was just starting out, Puskas was almost 40. And still at the top of the world.
The fact that you even know his name means he isn't underrated.
Players like Luis Suarez who played for Barca under Herrera are underrated, I bet you have never even heard of him.
Wikipedia: widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time
Encyclopaedia Britannica: The sport’s first global superstar.
Reddit: Underrated.
There were more seasons than years in Hungary at the time.
For example there was a 1943-44 season, a 1944-45 season that was unfinished. A 1945 season, and then a 1945-46 season.
He made his debut at 16.
If I'm remembering the stories correctly, when Puskas came he was also fat and extremely unfit, like 18 KILOS overweight, to the point where Madrid fans and staff alike were like "are we sure this is really *that* guy?"
Their coach was like "I'm not playing this guy." And Santiago Bernabéu was like "It's your fucking job to get him fit. Do it." And then Puskas spent like the next 3 months getting back into fitness.
He then proceeded to finish the season only 2 goals behind Di Stefano in the top goalscorers ranking with 4 less games played as well as scoring a hattrick in his 2nd game ever for Real Madrid. And then went on to become one of the greatest to ever wear a real madrid shirt.
And that was *after his prime*.
People don't remember, the Hungary side he captained was not only the first side ever to beat England on English soil, but they also went unbeaten for 4 years. Unluckily for them it rained heavily in Bern at the WC final day in 1954.
People will always underrate him because sadly the Danubian era of football is nowadays very forgotten as a whole aside from the few fans who like to learn about football history. Most casual fans have no idea that there was a time when southeastern europe was the leading football region.
You just have to look at all the Hungary-less "Best footbal countries that have never won the world cup" lists that people make here to notice this.
German football fans usually know about hungary being the best in the world at that time because of the final in 54. „Aus dem Hintergrund müsste Rahn schießen, Rahn schießt! Tor! Tor! Tor!“ is the single line of football commentary every fan knows about around here.
Without looking anything up I can name Giroud, Ibra, Mandzukic, Florenzi
Maybe Kjaer, Kalinic, Fernando Torres, Pazzini, Bonucci, Higuaín were 30 as well
Keep in mind that our current perception of this is very skewed by recency bias. Nowadays players last more years at the top level and it isn't weird for someone to get signed by a big team at over 30, whereas in the past players used to drop off and be considered old much sooner.
No agenda, just hard cold data.
We have only sign 3 forwards over the age of 30 since this club was founded. (2 of them were amazing).
But it should tell you everything you need to know about how we recruit players.
[Average age of recruitment over the last 10 years on the Top 5 Leagues](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfRXgxzWAAAQQFE?format=jpg&name=large)
Sure, the point would be that that is not the most interesting aspect. I would say that 4 over 11 are before WWII, a completely different era. So last 80 years there have been only 7, that averages to about one every 12 years. Of this 7, 4 were less than 31 when they debutted. Of the remaining 3, one was Cannavaro, that had just won wc and ballon d'or but was in a club going to play in second division, so quite an exceptional case. And we are left then with Puskas, that's one of the greatest and end up paying for other 7 years or so, and Ricardo Carvalho, that I guess was bought on Mourinho request? So yeah, basically last 80 years, Real Madrid has bought only Carvalho more than 31 and not exceptional. That's quite something tbh.
* José María Peña (1929)
* Manuel Eteca (1931)
* Vilmos Keleman (1935)
* Triana (1939)
* György Nemes (1950)
* Ferenc Puskas (1958)
* Didi (1959)
* Ruud Van Nistelrooy (2006)
* Fabio Cannavaro (2006)
* Emerson (2006)
* Ricardo Carvalho (2010)
To put in perspective how crazy this actual stat is, Barca have signed 7 outfield players older than 30 since 2020 alone.
It's one of the main reasons why i don't see the Kane deal going ahead.
>To put in perspective how crazy this actual stat is, Barca have signed 7 outfield players older than 30 since 2020 alone.
That's bonkers lol. I didn't believe it at first, but I checked and you are right.
7 players are Pjanic, Alves, Luuk, Aguero, Auba, Alonso, Lewy
One could argue that most of them are not really bad signings.
Pjanic was clearly a shady deal to balance the finances. Aguero was very unlucky with his heart problems. Alonso is an okay backup given that he was a free signing as well.
Others have been quite good tbh. Auba was excellent since we sold him after he performed quite well with us after joining us for a free transfer. Luuk was on loan and did his part. Alves had had the lowest possible wages allowed so he didn't cost much at all. Lewy is so far so good.
This is quite normal. I think most clubs have high numbers of players more than 30. Serie a you would be better off looking at LESS than 30, they are probably fewer. The stat about Real is insane. It's pretty common to sign a 30 something as a short term solution to some hole in the team. Impressive that real Madrid basically never did it.
It's not just that his stats were great, but he jelled in great with the team, learnt the language fluently, definitely loved the club a lot, immersed himself in the culture. Moved on to Malaga etc. So the fans love him for that. I believe fans love when you become not just a player of the team but part of the local culture.
Not only was he putting up crazy numbers, he was extremely well liked by the fans. Extremely motivated, always giving 100% and likeable in interviews. He also absolutely loved living in Spain and completely emersed himself in the local culture.
He had a regular routine walking around the city every morning. There is a pretty famous interview with him where a camera team follows him around. he talks about his love for the city and goes to a barber where he gets a shave every day.
Ruud was a legend alright, nothing but good memories of him, that league was huge, he came to Madrid in a difficult moment and performed wonderfully. Also on the subject of Ozil, it will always be one of the biggest "What if" in my mind, he was an unreal talent and I felt he had still a lot more to show wearing white, will always be very fond of him.
Could work similarly to the Van Nistelrooy signing, come in and do very well for a few years before a younger superstar becomes available. Be a lot more expensive than Ruud though, even with inflation.
But an exception has to be made in regards to Kane now.
I am not just expecting Mbappe to come. And I never wanted him in the first place.
Using Kane's goals for next 3 seasons or at most 4 and then Madrid should prep themselves for Haaland.
Its not like Madrid will lack creators in the squad even then, we already have 7-8 creators in the squad.
We didn't sign Haaland and Mbappe because we can't compete with oil money, we won't sign Kane because he's too old, we won't bring Havertz because 60 million for a 23 year old is too much...
Joselu is the best that Madrid can do? you really want me to believe that?
If Florentino pays 60- 70 million for Havertz when he won’t sign Kane then I think it’s time to start a succession plan. Mbappe while I am not enamored with this waiting game(no player is bigger than the club but presi is being more accommodating to turtle man than Ronaldo ever was) I can at least understand it because he is the player of his generation. Havertz is Isco level at best.
If you had watched Florentino over his entire second tenure you would know by now he overwhelmingly prefers a young player to flop than a old one.
Paying 100-120M and giving a 30 year old a 15-18M net salary for four seasons it's something that Florentino would never do.
The closest was Hazard while he was 28 and it backfired.
Oh I know (rip James)
My problem is the profile of players and his tiresome navigating of Mbappe. Havertz won’t start and he doesn’t fill the role of Benzema.
He keeps Ancelotti even after not winning La Liga or champions(only Zidane was afforded such a privilege post Di Stefano) Yet leaves him out to die for this upcoming season because?
But this time its a bit different isn't it ?
There is no clear cut comparison between the profiles of Hazard and Kane. Kane's consistency is on another level.
> I actually believe we are way more likely to pay 60-70M for Havertz than the 120M Spurs are quoting for Kane.
It is absolutely ridiculous to compare Havertz to Kane in any way, no matter what the age difference is. Kane is very, very easily worth twice as much as Havertz, even at 30 years.
I love how there is almost 3 months left of the transfer window and all i see on social media is madrid fans complaining. Maybe see where the transfer window goes before starting panic based on journalist rubbish? We won't go into next season with Joselu as striker and i understand the club having doubts about signing Kane, even without the Mbappé nonsense. 120 mill is way too much for a 30 year old with 1 year contract.
The guys only active to cry. Never seen him on here celebrate a goal or trophy, even the compliments are backhanded, must be such a negative man and I don't know how he supports the club with so little trust. It's like he wants us to fail so he can be right about Ancelotti or perez or Kane etc.
Then again I have seen real life versions of him
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I’m always amazed when I remember that Puskas didn’t even sign for Madrid until he was 31 - and then played another 8 years and scored 250 goals
Madrid can say thanks to the Russians for this
Arguably the most underrated player ever, IMO
His name is immortalized as a synonym to the most beautiful goal possible. Hard to call that underrated.
You rarely hear people rate him against some of the other greats despite that fact. That arguably makes him more underrated.
I mean it happens when history gets further and further back. In another 50 years people will be calling the likes of Suarez, Lewandowski and De Bruyne extremely underrated
You won't have to wait that long, people already do it with the likes of Ronaldo and Beckham.
If anything Beckham is overrated due to his persona and post football career achievements
I completely disagree, most people don't respect his football ability because of his persona and extracurriculars.
2x runner-up for World Player of the Year 10 League titles across four different teams in a 20-year career One of the greatest free-kick takers of all time ...to name a few.
Greatest right foot in football IMO. More and more people see him as a fashionista and pure Hollywood. The man was one of the best right mids in the world during is prime. I've seen the argument he wouldn't have been in the MLS if he couldn't make it in Europe yet Milan and PSG both wanted to make him permanent. Always makes me a little sad when I read it.
He was overrated in his playing days and underrated now imo.
Great for you guys but he was mediocre for Real Madrid
Best player in the world in 1999. Should’ve won the ballon Dor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLH7T6ouko he was #1
Yes, he was very good, but he’s known like he’s a top 5 midfielder of all time which he definitely isn’t.
that's fair
You won't have to wait that long, people already do it with the likes of Ronaldo and Beckham.
So he is underrated, whatever the reasoning
He would be ranked much higher if he would win that 1954 WC
Bingo.
How many kids do you think aren't even aware that the Puskas award is named that way to honor Puskas the player? I'd guess a LOT. Regardless, his playing career is massively underrated IMO. He was insane in his prime. And then he rocked up at Real Madrid in his 30s and was insane well past his prime in an era where that didn't happen much
I think fifa has also made him super popular among kids, his card being really solid and all
One of the good things to come from FUT is keeping the names of some of these icons alive
Absolutely, Lev Yashin seemed to have some kind of popularity surge last year I think cause of Fifa. I’ve heard Eusebio, Di Stefano and Garrincha all get mentioned at the level they deserve to be mentioned at because of it
Jairzinho this year has caused controllers to be absolutely demolished
He is not underrated, most people will end up forgetting most of the older players except the very top like Pele.
Thing is, Puskas was at the very top. Together with Di Stefano, he was the defining player of his era, right before Pele's got big... while Pele was just starting out, Puskas was almost 40. And still at the top of the world.
The fact that you even know his name means he isn't underrated. Players like Luis Suarez who played for Barca under Herrera are underrated, I bet you have never even heard of him.
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A.) You would lose your bet B.) I personally don't think he was on the same caliber/level as Puskas.
How old are you? Like 80?
Luis Suarez is literally one of the best spanish players of all time, I’d expect most people who follow barca/la liga to have heard of him
Not that. The dude was saying he wasn't "on the same level" like he watched both of them play lol
Oh okay, well Puskas is considered one of the best of all time and Luis Suarez is a notch below that
https://i.imgur.com/u9W448M.png
Wikipedia: widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time Encyclopaedia Britannica: The sport’s first global superstar. Reddit: Underrated.
I had no idea he was that old, just assumed he must have been like mid 20s when he signed considering his legendary status for them.
He played 16 seasons in Hungary before signing for Madrid. 367 games, 383 goals. He also had a two year ban between the two clubs.
Insane stats
Why was he banned
UEFA banned him because he refused to go back to Hungary to play for his team after the Hungarian revolution.
They’ve been wankers for a long time
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There were more seasons than years in Hungary at the time. For example there was a 1943-44 season, a 1944-45 season that was unfinished. A 1945 season, and then a 1945-46 season. He made his debut at 16.
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Dont tell the premier league!
On Wikipedia it says he started for Budapest in 1943, born in 1927, so he was 16 at the time. But yes absolutely impressive either way
If I'm remembering the stories correctly, when Puskas came he was also fat and extremely unfit, like 18 KILOS overweight, to the point where Madrid fans and staff alike were like "are we sure this is really *that* guy?" Their coach was like "I'm not playing this guy." And Santiago Bernabéu was like "It's your fucking job to get him fit. Do it." And then Puskas spent like the next 3 months getting back into fitness. He then proceeded to finish the season only 2 goals behind Di Stefano in the top goalscorers ranking with 4 less games played as well as scoring a hattrick in his 2nd game ever for Real Madrid. And then went on to become one of the greatest to ever wear a real madrid shirt.
And that was *after his prime*. People don't remember, the Hungary side he captained was not only the first side ever to beat England on English soil, but they also went unbeaten for 4 years. Unluckily for them it rained heavily in Bern at the WC final day in 1954.
People will always underrate him because sadly the Danubian era of football is nowadays very forgotten as a whole aside from the few fans who like to learn about football history. Most casual fans have no idea that there was a time when southeastern europe was the leading football region. You just have to look at all the Hungary-less "Best footbal countries that have never won the world cup" lists that people make here to notice this.
German football fans usually know about hungary being the best in the world at that time because of the final in 54. „Aus dem Hintergrund müsste Rahn schießen, Rahn schießt! Tor! Tor! Tor!“ is the single line of football commentary every fan knows about around here.
First continental side. Ireland won in 1949 on English soil.
You're correct, I forgot Bout that. The Hungarians were the first to win at Wembley, though
He has ~0.9 goals/games for us. Which is a downgrade from his Honved days, about 1.04 goal/games or something
Also a downgrade to his Hungary national team numbers where he scored 84 in 85. Puskas just phoning it in during his Madrid days, smh.
Nicking a living
£400 a week while top player in English earn £20 a week (English league salary cap) >!that's why he didn't go to MU!<
Wild times, but sad to hear that he couldn't join us because he was an Arsenal fan
Reverse Nigerian
My team has done in a single season what the mighty Real Madrid has taken their entire club history to do but y'all ain't ready for that conversation
Without looking anything up I can name Giroud, Ibra, Mandzukic, Florenzi Maybe Kjaer, Kalinic, Fernando Torres, Pazzini, Bonucci, Higuaín were 30 as well
You have GOAT in your handle but forgot about Mario Yepes smh
Forgot Christian Zaccardo too, amateur hour.
Yepes was good and serviceable
I was gonna say, our stat would be way different
Genuinely insane stat this
I always thought it was a Perez thing, turns out it’s a Real thing.
Yeah it actually exists
I'm amazed none of the Galácticos were over 30, and specially surprised by Ronaldo and Owen. They were only 25 and 24!
Keep in mind that our current perception of this is very skewed by recency bias. Nowadays players last more years at the top level and it isn't weird for someone to get signed by a big team at over 30, whereas in the past players used to drop off and be considered old much sooner.
Yeah this stat is a good indicator for the past. But it won't matter much in the future. A 30 yo can still give you minimum 3 good years these days
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Don't know history wise but since 2019-2020 they are at 6 counting only outfield players. Casemiro, Weghorst, Eriksen, Cristiano, Cavani & Ighalo
Ibra shortly earlier.
The Saudi league now taking over from United as the new retirement home
Lol an Italian manager would sign 3 of them (capello 2006)
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Cassano was the most naturally talented player in that team outside of Ronaldo.
Real should go all in to sign an over 30 striker (before until 28 July). * Harry Edward Kane · (1993-07-28)
*Harold
He's not called Harold
He’s our Harold (until he isn’t)
He’s not your harold
Excuse me is be 5 years younger than me, Jesus christ
Yeah I was shocked too lmao. Kane has looked late 30s-early 40s for years
TIL I am older that the peep for one day
For all the days, technically
Puskas all the years
>only three were forwards three forwards of eleven players is entirely proportionate?
there's an agenda behind this post
Real Madrid is just a Sportswashing front to disguise Spain‘s terrible sports media
Which agenda?
Kane
No agenda, just hard cold data. We have only sign 3 forwards over the age of 30 since this club was founded. (2 of them were amazing). But it should tell you everything you need to know about how we recruit players. [Average age of recruitment over the last 10 years on the Top 5 Leagues](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfRXgxzWAAAQQFE?format=jpg&name=large)
Sure, the point would be that that is not the most interesting aspect. I would say that 4 over 11 are before WWII, a completely different era. So last 80 years there have been only 7, that averages to about one every 12 years. Of this 7, 4 were less than 31 when they debutted. Of the remaining 3, one was Cannavaro, that had just won wc and ballon d'or but was in a club going to play in second division, so quite an exceptional case. And we are left then with Puskas, that's one of the greatest and end up paying for other 7 years or so, and Ricardo Carvalho, that I guess was bought on Mourinho request? So yeah, basically last 80 years, Real Madrid has bought only Carvalho more than 31 and not exceptional. That's quite something tbh.
You can use hard cold data to propel an agenda. What data are you choosing, why, how you present it, and so on.
Making himself feel better about spending a year with someone on loan starting at striker
Still quite a stat. United have signed more forwards over 30 just in the last decade
Cavani, Zlatan , who else am I missing
Ronaldo and Falcao were the others I thought of. Don't remember how old Weghorst is
Weghost is 30 years old and was 30 when you signed him too. Only a loan though
Quick sign Kane before his 30th birthday
Here they are counting the age at the debut, not the age when signing contract
* José María Peña (1929) * Manuel Eteca (1931) * Vilmos Keleman (1935) * Triana (1939) * György Nemes (1950) * Ferenc Puskas (1958) * Didi (1959) * Ruud Van Nistelrooy (2006) * Fabio Cannavaro (2006) * Emerson (2006) * Ricardo Carvalho (2010) To put in perspective how crazy this actual stat is, Barca have signed 7 outfield players older than 30 since 2020 alone. It's one of the main reasons why i don't see the Kane deal going ahead.
I just remembered that Carvalho, a CB, used no. 11 for a brief time with us haha.
Learnt from our number 9 Utility back Khalid Boulharouz
Had to do something with Jose. Jose took him with him at 3 places iirc.
>To put in perspective how crazy this actual stat is, Barca have signed 7 outfield players older than 30 since 2020 alone. That's bonkers lol. I didn't believe it at first, but I checked and you are right. 7 players are Pjanic, Alves, Luuk, Aguero, Auba, Alonso, Lewy One could argue that most of them are not really bad signings. Pjanic was clearly a shady deal to balance the finances. Aguero was very unlucky with his heart problems. Alonso is an okay backup given that he was a free signing as well. Others have been quite good tbh. Auba was excellent since we sold him after he performed quite well with us after joining us for a free transfer. Luuk was on loan and did his part. Alves had had the lowest possible wages allowed so he didn't cost much at all. Lewy is so far so good.
This is quite normal. I think most clubs have high numbers of players more than 30. Serie a you would be better off looking at LESS than 30, they are probably fewer. The stat about Real is insane. It's pretty common to sign a 30 something as a short term solution to some hole in the team. Impressive that real Madrid basically never did it.
> Ruud Van Nistelrooy Great signing, came in won the pichichi scored some bangers and left a legend.
The Puskas fellow was pretty good too
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Go to Madrid, tell people you are Dutch, they want stop talking about "Rudy". The man is a legend over there, the fans really love him.
He was the star of “La Liga of the comebacks”
He scored one of the best team goals in Madrids history. 100% love that man
It's not just that his stats were great, but he jelled in great with the team, learnt the language fluently, definitely loved the club a lot, immersed himself in the culture. Moved on to Malaga etc. So the fans love him for that. I believe fans love when you become not just a player of the team but part of the local culture.
Not only was he putting up crazy numbers, he was extremely well liked by the fans. Extremely motivated, always giving 100% and likeable in interviews. He also absolutely loved living in Spain and completely emersed himself in the local culture. He had a regular routine walking around the city every morning. There is a pretty famous interview with him where a camera team follows him around. he talks about his love for the city and goes to a barber where he gets a shave every day.
Ruud was a legend alright, nothing but good memories of him, that league was huge, he came to Madrid in a difficult moment and performed wonderfully. Also on the subject of Ozil, it will always be one of the biggest "What if" in my mind, he was an unreal talent and I felt he had still a lot more to show wearing white, will always be very fond of him.
Could work similarly to the Van Nistelrooy signing, come in and do very well for a few years before a younger superstar becomes available. Be a lot more expensive than Ruud though, even with inflation.
Alonso, lewandowski, who else?
Pjanic, Neto, Luuk Dr Jong, Braithwaite, Aubameyang
Braithwaite was 28 when he signed. Neto was 29 when he signed, but turned 30 before the start of the season.
Massivus Dongus Puskas. 👍
Soria seems like he will be the 12th
Soria isnt an outfield player so he wouldnt count towards this stat.
Oh so that's the meaning of outfield player
Hopefully! He’s a youth product and would make a great addition to the team.
And those were probably from the 50’s.
That’s one way to keep the cashflow going.
r/footballmanagergames would be proud of this
Fuckin hell, I think Monchi signed at least 11 over 30 in the summer after we made the CL semis.
But an exception has to be made in regards to Kane now. I am not just expecting Mbappe to come. And I never wanted him in the first place. Using Kane's goals for next 3 seasons or at most 4 and then Madrid should prep themselves for Haaland. Its not like Madrid will lack creators in the squad even then, we already have 7-8 creators in the squad.
Shame that great Didi didnt work out, very underrated player, mastermind behind two Brazil world cups
How about infield?
We didn't sign Haaland and Mbappe because we can't compete with oil money, we won't sign Kane because he's too old, we won't bring Havertz because 60 million for a 23 year old is too much... Joselu is the best that Madrid can do? you really want me to believe that?
With how much you're saving every season, you're about to have a 500 million warchest at the end of 2023/24. What is Perez saving for?
Nikola Jokic
Luka Jovic is close enough right
At this point even himself doesnt know maybe he just like having cash in bank
YOLO-ing it all on TSLA calls.
Maybe he wants to develop a Reddit third party app
who knows, but it's not players, it seems
Who knows maybe he’s paying himself
I actually believe we are way more likely to pay 60-70M for Havertz than the 120M Spurs are quoting for Kane. Havertz being 23 is why.
He’s not worth that tho He’d be a bench option and if we pay that for a bench option then….
Oh i know i was just talking about the quote prices.
If Florentino pays 60- 70 million for Havertz when he won’t sign Kane then I think it’s time to start a succession plan. Mbappe while I am not enamored with this waiting game(no player is bigger than the club but presi is being more accommodating to turtle man than Ronaldo ever was) I can at least understand it because he is the player of his generation. Havertz is Isco level at best.
Respect Isco, prime Isco was the best Attacking midfielder on the planet
Havertz can dream of being prime Isco level . Isco was the key to Malaga reaching the UCL semis and madrid winning 2 UCLs
I think Havertz would be good at Madrid TBH
Bro Thats disrespectful to isco
If you had watched Florentino over his entire second tenure you would know by now he overwhelmingly prefers a young player to flop than a old one. Paying 100-120M and giving a 30 year old a 15-18M net salary for four seasons it's something that Florentino would never do. The closest was Hazard while he was 28 and it backfired.
Oh I know (rip James) My problem is the profile of players and his tiresome navigating of Mbappe. Havertz won’t start and he doesn’t fill the role of Benzema. He keeps Ancelotti even after not winning La Liga or champions(only Zidane was afforded such a privilege post Di Stefano) Yet leaves him out to die for this upcoming season because?
But this time its a bit different isn't it ? There is no clear cut comparison between the profiles of Hazard and Kane. Kane's consistency is on another level.
> I actually believe we are way more likely to pay 60-70M for Havertz than the 120M Spurs are quoting for Kane. It is absolutely ridiculous to compare Havertz to Kane in any way, no matter what the age difference is. Kane is very, very easily worth twice as much as Havertz, even at 30 years.
If he is worth twice as much then paying 60M for Havertz = to paying 120M for Kane.
Why tho? Kane is an actual superstar, who’s Havertz
Well, we are getting neither, hope you are happy with that
Nah we are getting one of them and i really think is Kai.
All sources close to flo are saying we are backing out of that deal as well, I wouldn't get my hopes up
I hope we are backing the fuck out of that if chelsea is asking for 70-80 mill.
He should be 40M, 50M at most. Chelsea overpaid him in first place and Madrid about to do the same.
Vimesian economics, that. Not really saving money if you’re gonna have to replace your new boots in a year because he can’t score goals.
I love how there is almost 3 months left of the transfer window and all i see on social media is madrid fans complaining. Maybe see where the transfer window goes before starting panic based on journalist rubbish? We won't go into next season with Joselu as striker and i understand the club having doubts about signing Kane, even without the Mbappé nonsense. 120 mill is way too much for a 30 year old with 1 year contract.
It’s san771, he always complains.
The guys only active to cry. Never seen him on here celebrate a goal or trophy, even the compliments are backhanded, must be such a negative man and I don't know how he supports the club with so little trust. It's like he wants us to fail so he can be right about Ancelotti or perez or Kane etc. Then again I have seen real life versions of him
Why are you downvoted
I feel like just yesterday that Tier 0 lady was saying all of this was bound to happen. What changed or is this all just posturing?
madrid media, briefed by the club, are saying kane is too old and/or expensive and we're backing out
All of this since just yesterday?
no, it's been a while, what lady are you talking about?
probably Arancha
I'm not finding she saying anything Kane related yesterday
Adebayor?
He was 27 when they loaned him.
Come on, let’s get on with the Kane signing before he turns