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Marcelo is a pretty reliable and irreplaceable left-back in Madrid so far, but his attitude towards coach Menezes is certainly unacceptable, from the video footage circulating on the internet, it is clear that at that time Menezes wanted to play Marcelo in the match in the 90th minute, but I think maybe Marcelo was not happy with the decision of the coach who wanted to play him towards the end of the match, so maybe there was a conversation that made Menezes must to back up again Marcelo in the match, I think Marcelo is too arrogant with his star status in Fluminense so maybe he looks too egois and unhappy with the coach's decision at that time, what Menezes did I don't think was the wrong thing because after all the coach has absolute authority for whenever he wants to play a player including Marcelo, I think terminating Marcelo contract is the right step taken by Fluminense because it is better to maintain the stability of the team than to keep an ego star player, Marcelo age still allows him to play in a non-competitive league so maybe the Arab League could be the right choice for him at the moment, Marcelo has a good relationship with Ronaldo besides Al Nassr currently has a weakness in defense so I think recruiting Marcelo will is a great addition to Stefano Pioli squad.

It seems unlikely that the rumors about Real Madrid pursuing Florian Wirtz are true. Wirtz is an exceptional player that any club would love to have but Real Madrid isn’t short of talent in the attacking midfield. They already have gifted players like Arda Güler, often called the "Turkish Messi," and Brahim Díaz, who can fill similar roles. Rather than adding another attacking midfielder, Madrid might be better off focusing on strengthening their defense this season. If the rumors are accurate and Madrid is genuinely interested in signing Wirtz, they might need to part with one of their current attacking players, such as Brahim Díaz or Arda Güler, to make room for him in the squad.

Leverkusen also know they cannot keep Xabi Alonso. So accepting would be a good ending for both parties. Although Ancelotti is still under contract with the club, expectations are always very high at Madrid, and Ancelotti knows that if he lets the team fall short this season, maintaining his position will be difficult. If a change in coach is necessary, Alonso has emerged as a leading candidate for the role.

Yes, if it were me, I would also choose Mbappe, Mbappe is probably more mature and has more leadership qualities. Vinicius is overconfident with his talent, his personality, and his attitude of course that is what directly affected the recent Ballon d'Or when he was not awarded. And this opposing competition between two top strikers is the reason for Madrid's failure in attack.

This is the link: https://www.goal.com/en/lists/real-madrid-legend-marcelo-fluminense-contract-terminated-confrontation-coach-mano-menezes-match-gremio/blt89eb6378241ef00d

I read about it in the local media and I also found it on the thesun website. So it seems to be true. As a player anywhere, a player must obey the coach's instructions. I don't think Marcelo should be like that. I think if he goes to another club, then he has to change his attitude. He also has to maintain his physical quality. I see now that Marcelo is too fat, he has to lose weight if he wants to imitate Ronaldo going to Saudi Arabia.

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1. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/31467834/marcelo-manager-bench-brazil-fluminense-sub/

Dumfries is definitely a very key player for Inter. And it only makes sense for them to extend his contract for such a long time. That is because I think they are also thinking about selling him for good money when his performance will start to drop because of his age. But right now I think they are more interested in getting the best result out of him. Maybe they are actually thinking that they are going to sell him to the Saudi League. That's why they have prepared such a big contract for him. That is actually going to be great for both parties in my opinion. Let's see what is the actual money that they are going to pay him during that period.

The rumors were true and it has been confirmed that he is now a free agent after parting ways with Fluminense. Marcelo had a dispute with the coach when he was played as a substitute, it is not known what Marcelo said that Menezes pushed Marcelo back to the bench and did not play him. After the incident, Fluminense and Marcelo agreed to immediately terminate their contracts. Maybe waiting for an offer from the Saudi Pro League would be better for him, he is still 36 years old, at least he can still play for two more seasons.

Source: widescores_com

I haven’t come across this news and the link in your post does not direct to the exact source. But if the rumour is true, it might be time for Marcelo to consider retiring rather than risking his successful, trophy-laden career ending amid scandals and negative reports. If he chooses to continue playing, I think he could consider moving to the Arab league and focusing on avoiding any further controversies or negative publicity.

In much respect, you were saying like you haven't watched UCL's last season. Madrid was fine without Mbappe, and we won everything. We did much better last season. We scored many goals and won many trophies with Vini, Rodry, and Bellingham played up front. Now after we brought another winger when we already had the best one, we faced a huge decline in our performance.

It's very clear Mbappe is the problem here and all he can do is shooting on GKs bodies or being trapped by offsides. I would rather keep Joselu than bring in a inconsistent player like Mbappe.

Mbappe has either been poor or downright garbage now. I must be honest if he looked good only if he played on the farmer league with all of the ball centralized on him.

Leverkusen know they're a small team and can't fulfill what Xabi Alonso's ask, whether they like it or not, they must release Xabi to Real Madrid.

Yeah, Real Madrid perform better with Rodrygo and Vinicius because Rodrygo don't really mean if he's staying behind Vinicius all the time, he's like Neymar that can't shine due to Messi.

If I have a choice, I would kick Vinicius and keep Mbappe, Vinicius is a player with zero attitude, he need to learn from this lesson.

Allegri should have been the coach instead of Juric. Juric tactics are too complex for this Roma side.
The sacking of DDR in the early season was a mistake. Any other option, especially Frankie, would have been another mistake and would have been an even bigger mistake than before.
Roma would only be understandable for an achieved coach like Allegri or Mancini.
Mancini has had success throughout his career, but Lampard's biggest achievement is surviving relegation. lol, Frank Lampard would be a joke. But I don't know if Roma has money for Alegri or Mancini. Allegri wants over 7-8M per season.

Real Madrid is not a team that is friendly to its coach, when they do not perform according to management's expectations, the coach will be the victim. Just look at Zidane fate when Real Madrid performance declined, he was immediately fired, even though in the previous season he managed to win the UCL trophy in a row.

According to reports (Sky Germany), the prospect of Xabi Alonso joining Real Madrid is very realistic, Leverkusen are also ready to lose the coach who has successfully brought them trophies. Mbappe arrival at Real Madrid will be a new problem within the team because of his ambition to become the number 1 player in the team, while Vinicius is also eyeing that position. When two typical players like this are on the same team, they will have a hard time working together because they want to show who is the best.

I was surprised he wasn’t relieved of his duties immediately after the last match against Fiorentina. He has led Roma into ruins. Under his management, Roma played some of their worst football, keeping them far from the top spots. I’m glad they’re seriously considering a replacement and actively searching for his successor. Two leading candidates have been mentioned: Frank Lampard and Paulo Sousa.

While some believe Lampard shouldn’t be considered due to his struggles in England, many suggest the job should go to Sousa, who is currently coaching Al-Ahli Shabab in Dubai. Personally, I think it’s too harsh to assume Lampard couldn’t succeed as Roma’s coach. Giving him a chance could be worthwhile, especially as Sousa may not yet be willing to leave his current role at Al-Ahli Shabab.

Neymar was played 2 times this season mostly as substutition player and why the manager didn't played him since the beginning of match because the manager don't want Neymar got the injured again and yesterday Neymar only play 13 minutes but he have to replaced by other player and Neymar has been confirmed that he got the warning from doctor that this is the effect of too long time away from play so that's why to restore his fitness condition then Neymar have to gets more minutes to play and regarding his current injured there was no news that he got heavy injured so i assume Neymar only just need to take a rest and next week probably there are no matches available because International break so this is good time for Neymar to recover his condition

Obviously, if that happens, Madrid will have an extraordinary squad for their attack line. But compared to seeing Mbappe playing with Haaland in one team, I prefer to see both of them playing in two different clubs as a competition.
They are both in one team, it is too scary for other teams. But seeing them in a competition like now, the meeting of the two in the Champions League will be very exciting. I don't want to see Haaland there. Just stay at Man City, or if he moves maybe he can go to Barcelona to replace Lewandowski. The competition will be more interesting, although I know, it might be difficult.

That could actually work for Real Madrid more than anyone has ever considered. Real Madrid should seriously consider this.

Because if Vini leaves, then we would have Mbappe playing at left winger, and we all know that Haaland wants to leave Manchester City when his contract is up, so that means Real Madrid could chase him. I am not saying this will happen or anything, I can't possibly know what players are thinking or what their agents are trying to do, however, assume a world where Vini leaves, Mbappe plays left wing and Haaland is their striker. That would be a Real Madrid which would be ten times better than this one, we would see a team that would be near impossible to beat at that moment, everyone would be amazing at their own position.

The truth of the matter is that right now, nothing ada guler will do that will make him a regular at real madrid because this is not his time, I believe that everyone has their time, so right now you don't expect Carlo ancelotti to keep any of their regular like valverdes, modric, Kyler mbape or even Rodrigo on the bench for a upcoming player like ada guler, he just has to wait for his time, and the best way he can prepare for his time is to go out for a loan for like two year where he will be playing as a  regular, and I am very much confident that if he goes out on a two years loan, he would be much more ready and mature to compete for a place in this real Madrid side then, than now, because right now they are all above him in the pecking order.

it doesn't look like a casual injury that will see him return to play anytime soon. From the way he leeps while exiting the field, it's possibly a cramp or an arm string injury and that's going to be a bad one for his career. I remember after the first game he played when he returned back to action that he commented that it was a tough game even though he played less than 30 minutes when he was subbed in towards the end of the second half. It shows he hasn't recovered fully and probably forced himself to try things up and see how well he can cope.

Considering his playing style, it's not a good one when he constantly faces injury, he's a dribbler and so if he's not fully fit, he's going to get injured too quick even in subsequent games which has a potential of affecting his contract with his club. His retirement is knocking so fast on the door and sadly he might not get to play above 36 before retirement.

Arda Guler's potential may not be visible enough for the current coach and he must show his ability harder to impress Ancelotti to be able to put him in the regular squad, to show his talent he needs to play more often Ancelotti can give a few minutes of play for a while when Real Madrid is debuting if he can give a stunning game I think Ancelotti can consider it, but if Arda Guler is not patient enough he can find another club that is willing to borrow him from Real Madrid and show his talent at another club to attract choach Real Madrid attention.

Neymar could not control injury in his career and now if the news is accurate then he must return to dealing with the operation.
I don't understand why he always suffers from injury, even though there are many players who are the same as the style of play like him, but they can avoid prolonged injuries like.
Neymar's career almost ended after he moved to the Saudi Arabian League and there were many people who might miss him.

He is also not too old and I think there is something wrong with the pattern of life that he lives so that makes him unable to avoid injury, we do miss him like when playing in Barcelona but maybe his career is almost finished.

Seem like hamstring. if that's true then, I think his career gradually it's over. We don't expect to much he can play like before. The age factor and his physical fitness has started to decline. Neymar is not same as he play on Barcelona and PSG. he could only sit on the bench watching his friends play on the fields. this is a big loss for Al hilal, this situation is the same like real Madrid where they bought Hazard, expensively but can't play it because injured.