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This season or the last few seasons of Real Madrid are really a never-ending nightmare

The amount of incompetence and nepotism that has accumulated is hard to believe in a club of this size

Instead of finally dismissing athletic trainer Pintus and doctor Mihić, with whom they have been dissatisfied for years, they hired both of them again after Xabi was eliminated, and are now getting the quick payoff – it is said in the press that Rodrygo had been struggling with indefinable knee problems for weeks, yesterday he injured himself in the first action and still played for over half an hour while they tried with high intensity to turn around a deficit

Now he will be out for up to a year with the torn cruciate ligament + meniscus damage, and will probably end up like Alaba, who is practically disabled from sports due to exactly the same injury pattern (and, by the way, injured himself again yesterday)

For 3 years we have been playing with one patched up defense after another, Rüdiger is the only fit IV against Celta, and he should actually be suspended next week – which other top team allows such conditions for 3 years in a row?

Mbappé has been playing with a bad knee for weeks and months, even against third division teams in the cup for over 90 minutes, because he alone decides when he plays and when not

The story about the nutritionist who sued the club is pure madness and gives a good insight into how things work at Real Madrid – if you question working methods you’ll be locked in your office and basically say “we won 15 UCLs this way, what do you know?”

Since the start of the season before last, the first team, B team and women have now accumulated 18 cruciate ligament tears (RODRYGO, Militão x2, Carvajal, Alaba, Courtois, Joan, Palacios, Dani Mesonero, Pol Fortuny, Axel Espínola, Alex Sibacha, Miguel Perales, Caroline Weir, Carla Camacho, Teresa, Bea Vélez x2) and you just do it keep it up

The pitch in the Bernabéu is a complete disaster, it dries out at the transitions between the individual panels and the players slip in a tour – but the main thing is that the Taylor Swift concert and the NFL are taking place in Madrid, what’s the safety of your own players compared to that?

And all the people who were involved in Huijsen and Mastantuono’s commitments in the summer should no longer have a job tomorrow – the €120m (!) could just as easily have been sunk in suitcases in the sea

Not to mention the Super League fiasco

The Florentino Pérez era is coming to an end as ingloriously as it possibly could

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