Real Madrid and the replacement of the golden generation .. Clacket for the third time

"In Madrid, winning is an obligation, not a goal or a goal, but an obligation. When we were winning, I didn't feel joy or happiness, I felt relief."

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(Ramon Calderon, President of Real Madrid from 2006-2009)

At the time of loss, the fan succumbs against his will to sadness and criticism, but at the time of victory, no sound is louder than the sound of celebration.

After a long confusion, we did not find better words than the former Real Madrid president to put in front of the Meringue fans so that they would not describe us as party spoilers.

Yes, the Royal Club won the League and the Champions League with the help of the remainder of the golden generation, but the fact that these greats are living their last lives cannot be changed.

And because the Real Madrid fan embraces winning as a doctrine and not as a goal, he has to stop his celebrations and look to the future, because the journey of replacement and renewal has reached its last chapters.

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Real Madrid (2.15) 3-2 (3.34) PSG

Real Madrid (2.58) 5-4 (4.58) Chelsea

Real Madrid (4.28) 6-5 (4.38) Man City

Real Madrid (0.92) 1-0 (2.19) Liverpool

— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) May 28, 2022

Clacket first time

The journey began at the end of the 2017-2018 season, when Real Madrid finished the season by winning their thirteenth Champions League title, and their third in a row.

In the midst of the celebration, the shocking news of the departure of the team's star and scorer, Cristiano Ronaldo, and its coach Zinedine Zidane, came to the club and the fans before a mandatory and surprising stage of replacement and renewal.

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The Real Madrid administration decided not to conclude huge offensive deals to carry the brigade from the late Portuguese star, as it contented itself with including the teenager “Vinicius Junior” from Brazil, and returning “Mariano Diaz” from Lyon and giving him the number (7), hoping that Gareth Bale would get more space, Next to Benzema, Isco and Asensio.

As for the coach, the administration turned to Spain coach Julen Lopetegui, who lost his position in the national team after announcing his contract with Real Madrid, days before the start of the 2018 World Cup, in a rare chaotic scene.

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Given Lopetegui's career between Castilla and Spain's under-19, 20 and 21 teams, his choice was to increase reliance on young talents in Real Madrid, which at that time included: Martin Odegaard, Theo Hernandez, and Lunin (goalkeeper). , Marco Asensio, Federico Valverde, Marcos Llorente, Dani Ceballos, Kovacic, Odriozola, Vallejo, Rodrigo, Vinicius Junior, in addition to Kubo, nicknamed Messi of Japan, and in the winter of 2018-2019 they were joined by "Ibrahim Diaz" from Manchester City.

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According to the report of the Spanish newspaper "AS", Real Madrid had spent about 217 million euros to hunt these young people, in what appears to be a radical shift in the thought of President Florentino Perez, who was famous for the Galacticos.

What appeared to be a planned transformation came to an end at the end of October 2018, when Lopetegui departed and Santiago Solari took over the technical leadership.

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"Barcelona has a plan and an idea, but that doesn't happen here at Real Madrid. We move from one coach to another without any standards, without planning anything."

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(Ramon Calderon, former president of Real Madrid)

Florentino's 217-million-euro plan to transform Real Madrid's squad

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— AS USA (@English_AS) December 29, 2018

second try

Solari did not last long after leading Real Madrid to a humiliating exit from the Champions League at the hands of the young Ajax team, so Perez decided to return to where he came from and use Zinedine Zidane again.

It was clear that Real Madrid could not afford to give young talent a chance to develop, and there was no plan from the start to make it gradually.

“The price you have to pay for teaching young players is losing points. I knew it was going to cost me points for a 20-year-old defender, and I had to accept it. If I bring in a 28-year-old, maybe less talented defender, it won’t cost me points like before, but I So I wouldn't have given the young player a chance."

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(Arsene Wenger, legendary Arsenal coach)

Zidane did not use his magic wand from the beginning, and for the remainder of the season he was satisfied with an average of 1.7 points per game in 11 league matches, while the average of his first term was 2.3 points per game.

Meringue finished the League in third place, and the coach took advantage of that period to see the condition of the team and players, in preparation for the start of the second substitution attempt.

Most press reports at the time agreed that "Zizou" had been able to impose his conditions on the "president", and he would control the transfer market as he wanted.

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"It hurts that these players have achieved great things in the last five years, and now is the time for a change. We promise the fans that we will come back with great ambition, and have a good season."

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(Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane after the end of the 2018-2019 season)

The French coach pressured to bring ready-made names, so that Real Madrid would rise quickly, and the team was associated with several big names such as “Eden Hazard”, “Neymar” and “Paul Pogba”, as if Zidane would go in a direction contrary to the direction that the president wanted through young talents. .

In the end, the harvest of transfers was balanced between this and that, as Real Madrid included "Hazard", along with the young trio: "Luka Jovic" (forward of Eintracht Frankfurt), "Eder Militao" (the heart of Porto's defense), and "Ferlan Mendy" ( Lyon left-back).

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Do you remember Zidane's talk about change?

The French coach completely forgot about him, and kept holding on to the old guard for the last moment, and with them he managed to end the 2019-2020 season by crowning the League title at the expense of Barcelona, ​​with a difference of only 5 points, to postpone the replacement and renewal process until further notice.

11 — Last night, Real Madrid won La Liga with Zinedine Zidane picking up his 11th trophy as a manager.

With that, Zizou now averages a trophy every 19 games.

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— UtdArena (@UtdArena) July 17, 2020

Clacket the third time

We forgot to tell you that the summer of 2019 witnessed a mass exodus of a number of young players we mentioned earlier in the first attempt to replace and renew, as Odegaard, Sergio Reguilon, Kovacic, Marcos Llorente, Theo Hernandez, Adriuzola and Kubo - between sale or loan that turned into sale later - left and preceded them Achraf Hakimi the previous summer.

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Zidane tried to hold out with his old guard, with the services of Valverde, Mendy and Militao in varying degrees, but the disappointing end of the 2020-2021 season forced Zidane to leave, and forced Real Madrid to enter a third attempt to replace and renew, and the expert "Carlo Ancelotti" was chosen to lead the stage. .

As a result of Zidane's second term, Meringue lost most of his talents that he tried to bet on.

In light of the financial constraints, due to financial fair play and the renovation of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the safe solution was to rely on an expert coach who is good at conducting business, and who can help the remaining youngsters, and renew the incentives for the remaining golden generation.

"Certainly Ancelotti was fortunate to have inherited a group of top international players who already know their roles and responsibilities. But one of the things that surprised Ancelotti the most when he returned to the Bernabeu in his second term last summer - after he coached them previously from 2013-2015 - was how weak his players were. Like Kroos, Marcelo, Casemiro and Luka Modric, how little hunger they are."

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(Jonathan Liu, Guardian columnist)

Ancelotti was lucky with the departure of defense duo Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane in the summer of 2021, to start the third and final replacement process under duress.

While Meringue only kidnapped the expert "David Alaba" in a free transfer deal, and included the talented French midfielder "Camavinga", so that the Italian coach began to work calmly and without expectations, to achieve the surprise by winning the League and the Champions League, and gives Real Madrid more calm to complete the replacement process.

🇫🇷 Eduardo Camavinga - 19 years old

🇧🇷 Rodrygo - 21 years old

🇧🇷 Vinicius Jr.

– 21 years older

🇫🇷 Aurélien Tchouaméni – 22 years old

🇺🇾 Federico Valverde – 23 years old

🇧🇷 Eder Militão – 24 years old

The future of @realmadrid ⚪️🔝 pic.twitter.com/PPXr6s2Ibr

— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) June 14, 2022

last frills

In the 2021-2022 season, Real Madrid appeared in a new look in its defense line, after relying on the doubles of Militao and Alaba - in addition to Mendy fixing his feet - and his midfield remained the same, relying on the trio of Kroos, Modric and Casemiro.

As for the attack, the surprise was the transformation of Benzema into Messi, the explosion of Vinicius and the development of Rodrygo, to find that the Royal Club succeeded in renewing two of the three lines.

As for the midfield, the first steps of the process of preparing "Camavinga" were successfully completed, as Ancelotti was patient in pushing him, so he needed a month to get his first participation in the team, bringing his total participation in the 2021-2022 season to 40 matches (a substitute came in 24 of them). ).

The fans of the Royal Club do not forget to participate as a substitute in the return matches against Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City, showing remarkable quality and speed (he played 125 minutes, during which Real Madrid scored eight goals and conceded one goal).

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The French talent is expected to get more time next season, in preparation for receiving the flag from Kroos or Modric.

As for Casemiro, he will most likely be a victim of Real Madrid's new deal, "Orlin Chuamini", who joined in the summer of 2022.

😯 Aurelien Tchouameni completed 187 tackles and interceptions combined in the league last season, at least 71 more times than any Real Madrid player managed #WelcomeTchouameni

— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) June 14, 2022

"Chwamini" was the most cut football player in the French League, in the 2021-2022 season, showing a remarkable defensive quality, accompanied by an acceptable quality of the ball, and passing the balls forward.

Robert Moreno, his former coach at Monaco, says Orlin had a great opportunity to learn from expert Cesc Fabregas, which helped him improve his cognitive abilities and, in turn, his ability to make decisions.

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Ancelotti will follow a policy of patience with Chuamini as he did with Camavinga, but since he targets Casemiro and not Kroos and Modric, it is expected that the period of patience will shorten, especially in light of the expectation of increased stability after supporting the back line with the heart of Chelsea's defense, the German international. Antonio Rudiger.

Rudiger is 29 years old, and is expected to add to Real Madrid's defense a lot, as the former Roma defender topped the list of the most participating in the five major leagues in the 2021-2022 season, with 5,645 minutes with Chelsea and the German national team.

It also has other advantages such as: the fighting spirit, the sharpness of man-to-man monitoring and going out to cover the full-back, in addition to the longitudinal passes.

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Rudiger is really good at switching the play with these diagonal long passes & finding a teammate in the open space on the other side of the pitch!

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— Nouman (@nomifooty) March 16, 2021

Perhaps the market would have looked perfect if the Meringue moved to bring in a right wing, but it seems that it depends on the position of "Marco Asensio".

In the end, the whole picture appears better than it was two years ago, as Real Madrid managed - at least partially - to overcome the confusion caused by the failure of the young talent scheme, and gave itself more calm to complete the last frills with the process of replacing one of the team's greatest generations in its history.

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