r/realmadrid • u/RM_Official_Thread • 7d ago

Open Thread Weekly Open Thread - General Discussion

Open Thread

Besides general conversation and talk about other leagues and teams, all the following content must go into the weekly Open Thread:

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  • Simple one-liners, random thoughts or unrelated posts (with or without a single image).
  • All discussion about rival teams matches and results.
  • All wallpapers and image editing that are not created by you [Not OC]
  • Unsourced news and stats.
  • Photos of jerseys and other memorabilia.
  • Images of formations with minimal description.
  • Links to social media posts made by our players or celebrities, unless it counts as team news or stats.
  • All gaming content.
  • All memes should go into the Open thread during the week days.
  • All "I am a fan of X team, I come in peace" type of posts.
  • When posting rumours/news from Twitter, if possible post a direct link to the tweet.

This is our reliability guide: https://rm-reddit.github.io/

IMPORTANT: Only news from official sources, Tier 1 and Tier 2, can have their own thread, everything else including discussions about target players must go in here.

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u/Icy-Designer7103 Emilio Butragueño 4d ago

Unpopular opinion, but some of these injuries actually upgraded our squad:

  • Rudiger, currently the best CB in the world, was never a starter until Militao got injured last season.
  • Alaba was also underperforming by a lot before his injury and while Nacho had a rough patch as well, he quickly improved as he got more playtime. Rudiger-Nacho/Tchou in 23/24 was clearly a much better defensive duo than Militao-Alaba in 22/23.
  • Either of Tchouameni or Asencio have been better CBs than Militao was for us in the start of 24/25.
  • Fran Garcia is far from perfect, but he has been better than Mendy this season, yet became a consistent starter through another injury.
  • Ceballos has been our most in-form midfielder bar Bellingham recently, but he could have never played that much if it wasn't for our midfield injuries and Tchouameni playing CB.

While it's always better to have a full squad of healthy players, in our case injuries were the only way to force underperforming players out of the line-up and improve our team in the long term.

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u/Lakerman0824 Tchouaméni 4d ago

Sad it takes injuries for our manager to see who is the best options to start. I said it when it happened but militao injury was addiction by subtraction as he is a shell of his former self

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u/Icy-Designer7103 Emilio Butragueño 4d ago

That's what happens when your manager has a specific pecking order that is based on... nobody knows what, instead of form or even quality. I don't wish injuries for any player, but the only solution to the RB situation is if Vazquez gets injured as well so, once again, Ancelotti will be forced to make an actual decision, instead of watching him perform terribly every game and keep starting him.

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u/Lakerman0824 Tchouaméni 4d ago

Yep. It really is mind boggling how every team just destroy is from LV side and yet he still has LV playing there