Mbappe? Neymar? Haaland? Kane? My take on Madrid's task to replace Benzema
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Real Madrid were not prepared for, nor are they equipped to cope with, the loss of their Ballon d'Or centre-forward, Karim Benzema.
They need to recruit brilliantly to keep the show on the road - and after dropping around 75 million from their wage bill, they are in a strong position to do so.
Expect an A-lister. The briefings here in Spain have featured Mbappe, Neymar, Haaland and Kane.
This, for ESPNFC, is what I know right now, and how I think it will affect the biggest decision of Madrid's summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Did you find me in Gray Manchester |
| 0:16.7 | having spent the most part of yesterday? I know you don't know which day that was but here we are you can listen to it whenever you choose |
| 0:26.8 | at Manchester Cities Academy watching what I hope will be the European Champions against |
| 0:32.3 | Moline on Saturday training and training well, |
| 0:35.0 | training in a way that increased in intensity even though it was an open session. |
| 0:40.0 | Some of the world's media were there and with each passing mini game, short-sided game that played, |
| 0:47.0 | the tackles flew in, the speed of past, the intensity of working on one another, calling to one another about marking, about movements, |
| 0:55.2 | went up and up and up to the point of which I'm certain eventually the players were unaware that there was an audience, |
| 1:01.2 | and Pep Guareola watching with Enzo Mariska was deeply satisfied about the intensity |
| 1:06.0 | and the sharpness that his players were showing. |
| 1:10.6 | You don't win European finals or trebles come to that via the training sessions only |
| 1:16.2 | you have to go out and beat difficult sometimes pretty not thuggish but bullying opponents in Inter Milan they're a bigger team |
| 1:25.1 | there are a team that recognizes its own limitations and therefore plays to a very |
| 1:30.2 | strict pattern and it will be a bruising game for city I predict and |
| 1:34.3 | sit here the better team and therefore they have to simply just go out and prove that |
| 1:38.2 | one way or the other by hook or by crook and that will complete a treble for them |
| 1:41.6 | one person who's now given up on the possibility of winning the traditional treble, |
| 1:48.0 | seeing as he's moved outside Jordan, can't win the Champions League anymore, |
| 1:52.0 | is carrying Vensimer. Anybody who has been listening to me for any length of time will know that I absolutely adore watching that footballer. |
| 2:01.0 | He's an artist, his ability to do extremely special things for |
| 2:07.7 | himself, for teammates for the team has elevated him. There's no question about that over the years and it became I think it |
| 2:16.0 | was fashionable to say that he was subservient that he was a lesser player than |
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