u/Lekanswanson

Been looking at a bandit or vstrom 650 but don't really know much about bikes beyond I want a touring bike preferably and not a sports bike.

This season has been a disaster we can all agree. Everyone is the sub is blaming one thing or the other, the sub is divided, its like Captain America civil war in this bitch.

We are getting a new coach next season and according to rumors Mourinho is front and center and while me personally I'm not too thrilled about it because it seems like taking a step back (then again I wasn't too thrilled when Carlo was getting rehired and he won multiple trophies)

One thing that we cannot deny is that Mourinho is a man that will always have a plan, no we will probably not play the most attractive football, shit might even completely hit the fan at some point but Mourinho will always have a plan.

The only problem is in terms of long term stability, identity, and development of youth we will probably suffer. Madrid is a club in need of an identity. When a team has an identity every player in the squad from starters to bench players know their role and you can change players in an out without performance dropping too much.

One thing that is clear is that this team cannot be a high pressing team. I see everyone giving out that we don't press but there is more than one way to play football and teams can have lots of different defensive structures. A high press only works when everyone presses together and I don't think that's something our team with the current players we have will ever be good at. This team needs to work smarter not harder.

I don't know how much truth is in all the rumors and I don't know whats going on behind closed doors but it seems to me that it probably wasnt a good idea to bring a player to the club (even though he isn't one of the best players of his generation) when the club has just won multiple trophies, make him the main man, give him considerably more money than everyone else on the team and then expect everyone else to work like a dog for him to take all the credit.

Before anyone compares Mbappe with Ronaldo, the project of the galaticos started with the signing of Ronaldo, the team was not doing well and we had not won the champions league for a long long time whereas when Mbappe joined, we had won 2 in 3 years and survived losing big benz who was a talisman but Joselu was a smart signing because he gave us something different to Vini, Rodrygo and Bellingham.

Losing Kroos and the ever dependable Nacho was a big loss but I don't know looking back the Mbappe signing just makes less and less sense. Our defensive fragility would still have been there and our midfield while lacking creativity till Arda was still physical enough to play in transition. I think the plan was to do that and use Mbappes speed to exploit defenses but that plan is completely useless once most teams realise they just had to sit deep and this is exactly why having Joselu option worked so well in 2024. His heatmap is literally in the box between 2 cbs and this opened space for Rodrygo or Vini or Bellingham making late runs or coming from the wings because Joselu even though he was a waster was a genuine threat in the area.

Right now we struggle to play quick transition because half the time Mbappe is either on LW with Vini, in the cm or RW, basically everywhere but the box. When he has actually made runs in behind he's had so much chances but against deep lying defenses he just seems so lost when he can't use his pace.

Whatever coach is coming next year really has his work cutout with trying to stabilize a leaky injury prone defense, implement a good pressing structure whether its a mid press or low block because high press ain't working with Vini and Mbappe. Finding a solution to the barren wasteland that is the RW.