Monday, December 05, 2005

Paging Vicente Del Bosque

Ahh...how times have changed since they canned Vicente Del Bosque in 2003 after winning their last championship...and rather then sit here and go over every coach since then that Real Madrid has had like every other site, Ill keep it simple and say...suckers you deserve it.

"Madrid's sporting failures are notorious and no commercial success can hide this," El Pais sports editor Santiago Segurola wrote in Monday's edition. As I copy his sentiments to my blog I cannot help but laugh and realize when the circus started(see Beckham's arrival) is when the problems really started and they have not truly been assessed since. Simply put Segurola is correct but yet with all the (wrong) moves in place, these guys have become so much more then a great football team...words like mediocre, boring, brutish and out-of-touch come to mind when describing Real Madrid. Focus on what needs to be done like:

1)updating your defense, I think the combined age is about 425..Their defense makes the AC Milan back four look like a bunch of spring chickens
2)buy a dam mid-fielder that does more then prance around and look pretty...give Zidane some support and give him someone to win the ball so he can distribute it to your overly priced strikers that are bored out of their minds waiting for service...see Makelele, whoops, Gattuso, Emerson if you need suggestions
3)think outside the box for your next coach...maybe Paul Le Guen ex-Lyon, think big Guss Hiddink of PSV, that will really piss off Barcelona, if you went out and actually got a Dutchman of your own who can outcoach just about anyone out there
4)Bench Raul and start playing your youth players, lets face it, this season you are not going to win anything, might as well start getting them ready for next year
5)And lastly you are prohibited from buying anymore Brazilian players until either you start winning and playing pretty soccer again or you shave Jonathan Woodgate's head

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