Caporegime
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Mourinho didn't buy Robben or Duff, he won a couple titles then failed after both Robben and duff had been sold by Mourinho. He replaced them with Kalou and Malouda who have been anything but great wingers. Kalou does have a decent scoring record for the amount of games he gets, but ultimately has never been first team and Malouda had 2-3 epic failure seasons followed by a couple flukey seasons where he's only good against rubbish teams generally.
Did he buy any wingers at Inter, Eto'o, Milito, more strikers, more defenders. Sure he got Di Maria and Ozil at Real, but thats because Real always try to buy the latest popular up and coming players. Di Maria looked to be joining Real for the past two seasons and with Ozil he was hardly going out of his way to buy a winger.
I'd say his history has been anything but that of a guy who loves wingers. The revolving door that was his time at Chelsea where he had real money was several new strikers a season, and loads of defenders coming.
Kaka should go though, so far this season his one "great" performance came against a Valencia that looked like someone threw a bottle of ether into the dressing room before the game, the defending was probably the worst I've seen all year, Real just walked the ball into the net with no great play, most were tap ins created from insanely simple attacks.
Asides from injury claims for Kaka that make no sense, he's been rubbish when he's looked clearly fit. He puts in no effort, he's got a huge pay check, he doesn't seem to give a damn in harder games and gets given penalties from his team mates to pad his sorry sorry time at Real.
Calderon HATES him with a passion and has come out in the last couple days having a go at Mourinho for being a bad loser and dragging Real's name through the mud. Real spent a lot more money, again, and the team have done effectively no better than the previous season but made fools of themselves in the biggest games while playing pathetic football. Worse football than Capello got fired for using when he won the league.
Of course, they might not be able to afford/want to absorb the cost of firing him. Refusing to get anyone he wants over summer might force him into his usual tantrum then walking out on the club though.
4 games to go Real are 8 points behind with a potential 92 points they can finish on, Barca are 8 points ahead and could finish on 100 points. same stage last season Real had 86 points, and finished the league 3 points behind Barca on 96 points, which they can't achieve this season. They are worse than last year despite the biggest squad change coming last season and most of the new players having had an extra season to gel and get better, they added even more improved players in the squad but have done worse. Most of it has been down to Mourinho's tactics both not suiting the players or the style of the league. I'd be surprised if he stayed, last year manager was fired for dragging them from 9 points behind Barca, to their best points tally ever, with their best away record ever. Real have regressed and let the gap between them and Barca increase again.
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