The overrating of Real Madrid in every single thread of this forum is ridiculous, it's incredible how complexed people are with these guys. We talk about a team that won 2 league trophies in 10 years or so, many of them lost even before December. For all their good performances in Europe, there have been a lot of poor to terrible ones with big trucks of luck, awful refereeing (always to their favour, out of casuality) and Ronaldo saving them from misery time and time again. Now there's VAR and the match winner has gone we've seen what they really are.
In their squad they have Carvajal, who's always injured and hasn't been close to his peak for a long time now. Marcelo and Kroos are a pair of lazy mugs who are not bothered to run or defend. Their pressing consists in jogging around and doing gestures with their hands. Isco who many people praise as some kind of superstar can't get a regular starting place under any manager. He slows the game in excess, takes too many touches and doesn't fit in any position. His chubby ass says it all about how professional he is. Recently the club took disciplinary action against him after insulting the last coach. Excellent stuff there.
Asensio is someone who has zero presence during games, and after a pair of beauty goals two years ago hasn't done nothing relevant. Lucas Vazquez is a workhorse that can't past dribble his grandpa. Benzema, their fix number 9 is far from being a killer, and the main star after Ronaldo (Bale) plays once in a month and not very well lately. Who else is there? Casemiro? Or that Vinicius guy who can't score to save his life?
Real Madrid is mainly Ramos and Modric sustaining everything and they are 33. They've been losing solid stablished players for years and replaced them with average youngsters or the likes of Mariano and Brahim who are watching games from the stands. A fairly mediocre bunch with an ageing core and a happy stomach. Now it's that time of the year when they're signing Neymar, Pogba, Mbappe, just to end up in August with a pair of teenagers, Rabiot on a free, Icardi and his noisy wife.
If Pogba really wants to go there which I don't believe for a second, then he's more stupid than I ever thought. I think he's just sending messages to put some pressure, both to get a big fat contract and also to ensure we build a competitive team. He's going nowhere this summer so we've got time to show the guy that this is the place to be. Then, if he likes the sunny weather or a softer, more technical league there's nothing we can do, so we shake hands and move on. But honestly I'm tired of reading almost every day how shit we are while Real is all glory and magnificence. Neither is true.
PS. I've just seen the cover of Marca, and they say down in the corner "Manchester United need to sell (for money reasons)".