Tag: Real Madrid

Aurelien Tchouameni won’t like the latest Enzo Fernandez transfer news
24Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Transfer News

Aurelien Tchouameni won’t like the latest Enzo Fernandez transfer news

Real Madrid star defensive midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni has been under a microscope since joining the club in 2022 as the Casemiro replacement after the Royal Whites won the Champions League title. But Tchouameni has been a success on his 80 million euro price tag, winning a Champions League crown of his own in 2023/24 as a crucial starter, including playing some important games as a center back amidst a serious injury crisis at the position. This season, Tchouameni is settling down and playing the best football of his life under new manager Alvaro Arbeloa, but that doesn't mean his future as a starter is 100 percent secure. Enzo Fernandez dreams of Real Madrid Real Madrid are being linked with another deep lying playmaking midfielder in Chelsea's controversial and high priced st...
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Kylian Mbappe destroyed an insulting injury conspiracy
24Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Kylian Mbappe destroyed an insulting injury conspiracy

Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappe had to miss several games with a left knee injury that had been acting up. He was initially trying to play through the pain, but Madrid and doctors thought it would be best for the French superstar to shut things down and heal instead of making things worse. He returned against Atletico Madrid in a 3-2 El Derbi win, looking quite spry off the bench for the Merengeus. It is questionable if he will play for the French national team during this March international break, but Mbappe looks ready to make a difference for the Royal Whites when play resumes in April. Unfortunately, as with anything relating to Mbappe, there are always conspiracies and rumors abound, and one of them is that Mbappe has been trying to take games off in order to save himself f...
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Real Madrid players know the counterintuitive truth about Alvaro Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso
24Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Real Madrid players know the counterintuitive truth about Alvaro Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso

Xabi Alonso did not last long as Real Madrid manager, and even though he was hyped up as the perfect successor to Carlo Ancelotti with experience as a top midfielder for Los Blancos when they won La Decima, his reign, in hindsight, was a nightmare. While Alonso is clearly an excellent coach and will always be able to boast about going undefeated with Bayer Leverkusen to break up Bayern Munich's record hegemony in Die Werkself's first ever Bundesliga title triumph, he was anything but a great fit for Real Madrid. In addition to alienating star players like Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham, and Fede Valverde, Alonso did not exactly show up as the master tactician that he was at Leverkusen, with his ideas both proving ineffective and falling on jaded ears. Real Madrid players are prais...
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Real Madrid legend is finally achieving his biggest dream
23Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Real Madrid legend is finally achieving his biggest dream

There are a lot of current Real Madrid fans and even star players like Jude Bellingham who consider themselves Madridistas for life because they grew up watching the elegance of Zinedine Zidane as the centerpiece player of the Galacticos project in the early 2000s. Zizou then went on to become an even bigger Real Madrid legend as a manager, first learning under Carlo Ancelotti as an assistant and then building on the Decima success with an unprecedented three straight Champions League titles before returning for a second stint to win another La Liga from the grasps of Lionel Messi. After stepping down from Real Madrid for a second time after burning out during a grueling, COVID-stricken 2020/21 season, Zizou's biggest dream as a manager then became leading the French national team. ...
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5 Real Madrid stars are pushing for Alvaro Arbeloa to stay permanently
23Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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5 Real Madrid stars are pushing for Alvaro Arbeloa to stay permanently

Real Madrid did not initially hire Alvaro Arbeloa to be a permanent solution at manager, but rather a stabilizing force with experience at the club who could smooth over the acrimony building up in the club after Xabi Alonso essentially treated the club's star players like a bunch of overgrown children. Well, mission accomplished. After being battered by Atletico Madrid in the first Derbi of the 2025/26 season, Real Madrid came roaring back and battled past injuries and adversity to christen the Santiago Bernabeu with a 3-2 victory over Los Rojiblancos in a thriller. And in the aftermath of the game, all anyone can do is wax poetic about Arbeloa. According to a new report from MARCA, via The Madrid Zone, some of Real Madrid's most important players are pushing hard for Arbeloa to be ...
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Real Madrid vs. Atletico Player Ratings: Vinicius Jr. is the hero
22Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Player Ratings

Real Madrid vs. Atletico Player Ratings: Vinicius Jr. is the hero

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid did not disappoint in El Derbi, and Los Blancos were able to survive an early deficit and a Fede Valverde red card to take down their crosstown rivals 3-2 in a huge win that keeps them plugging along right behind Barcelona in the La Liga title race. Here are the player ratings from the win, with Vinicius Junior leading the way as Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe were second half substitutes on their road back from injury. GK Andriy Lunin, 7.0 He could be better on the ball, but Andriy Lunin made a couple of big saves and could do nothing about the goals Atletico Madrid put past him. LB Fran Garcia, 6.0 He actually played alright. Fran Garcia is not the best player technically and has serious limitations, but his effort is often enough to ensure he is...
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2026 Champions League Power Rankings: Initial ranking of every team in the quarterfinals
18Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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2026 Champions League Power Rankings: Initial ranking of every team in the quarterfinals

The 2025/26 Champions League season's Round of 16 is now done and dusted, so with the quarterfinals up next, it's time to rank all eight teams that are moving on to the next round of European football's biggest club competition. 8. Sporting CP Sporting CP pulled off a comeback for the ages, annihilating underdogs Bodo Glimt in a second leg twist that few saw coming, because Bodo Glimt were playing as well as any team in the competition. Maybe we are all sleeping on Sporting too much. The OTHER Luis Suarez is playing the ball of his life and looks even better than Viktor Gyokeres. Sporting have a good team, but they just don't have the firepower of the true European giants. 7. Atletico Madrid In truth, Atletico Madrid are lucky to even be in the quarterfinals, because if it were not ...
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Real Madrid fans will be worried about one of their expected starters vs. Manchester City
16Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Real Madrid fans will be worried about one of their expected starters vs. Manchester City

Real Madrid have a commanding 3-0 lead in the Champions League Round of 16 against rivals Manchester City, but out of all teams in world football, the Merengues know that no lead can be taken for granted in Europe's premier club competition. Although Alvaro Carreras is finally set to be in the squad for Real Madrid after missing a few games with an injury, the starting left back may not actually be the starter on Tuesday night. With Ferland Mendy also injured, COPE reports that Fran Garcia, who started at the weekend against Elche, could very well be the starting left back Alvaro Arbeloa has to turn to vs. Manchester City. Fran is not a bad player, but he is clearly not as confident and a cut below Alvaro and Mendy at left back. He was great this weekend, stepping up huge in a mas...
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Real Madrid have called up yet another youth gem to the first team
16Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Real Madrid have called up yet another youth gem to the first team

Real Madrid are gearing up to face Manchester City in the second leg of the Champions League Round of 16, and manager Alvaro Arbeloa continues to show that he is not afraid to give young players a chance in any game. Thiago Pitarch and Miguel Angel played key roles in the first leg, and over the weekend, Dani Yanez impressed and grabbed an assist in a massive La Liga win over Elche. Now, according to a report from MARCA, one more talented youth player is going to make his first team appearance under Arbeloa for the Man City game, 18 year old center back Mario Rivas. Arbeloa has called Rivas up to the first team for Man City with young center back Rau Asencio, another recent youth academy success, still out injured due to muscular issues.
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Real Madrid get relieving Nico Paz transfer news
16Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Real Madrid get relieving Nico Paz transfer news

Real Madrid academy graduate Nico Paz has been a rousing success as the center piece player in Cesc Fabregas's Como underdog story, and his status as the best player in Serie A has piqued Real's interest in bringing him back. But it also piqued the interest of Inter Milan in signing him as a dream target away from under Real's noses, as the Serie A leaders are getting a front row seat to Paz dismantling Italian defenses. Recently, Paz had dinner with Inter Milan legend and current Vice President Javier Zanetti, which fanned the flames and speculation of a surprise move to the Nerazzurri instead of the Real Madrid move everyone was reporting. According to Mario Cortegana of The Athletic, though, it looks like people were, once again, jumping the gun. Per Cortegana, Paz's dinner wit...
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