OPEN THREAD | NOV 8TH, 2025

Welcome to The Every day Merengue — a spot the place you possibly can be at liberty to debate all issues soccer. Don’t be alarmed by the overt RMCF bias. It’s within the title!

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WE’RE IN SERIOUS DENAIL…early too

I don’t understand how for much longer we’re going to disclaim it and proceed to outright say that the workforce ought to collectively and tactical make-up for the absence of a striker. When We now have 2 younger strikers on the bench, (Gonzalo & Endrick), each affected by Expertise Mis-representation. IMO, What do i imply? I imply, whenever you sit a participant with potential, down on the bench for a very long time at our membership. A few of our followers and the media tend to start out reasoning and echoing that mentioned participant/s aren’t as much as par for the membership. Which isn’t all the time true.

However we want a full time god-damned striker in that heart gap. Each Mbappe and Vini are screaming to play with one. Every time vini will get the ball down the left, i dont blame him for greater than usually, attempting to solo it. As a result of half the time, on a quick break/play, virtually nobody is within the field concurrently Vini. Barring perhaps Mbappe And sometimes Jude. And Mbappe tends to roam about, as he ought to. It’s grow to be a evident downside, the elephant within the room. Mbappe isn’t meant to play the middle all the time, particularly when groups are parking the bus towards us. He enjoys having the liberty to modify to the left/proper, however for that freedom to be maximized. He wants a striker in that heart function, as does Vini. And the concept that we don’t want a quantity 9/out and out striker as a result of “others groups” don’t use that function, isn’t a concrete stance. In the long term it’s not sustainable.

I’m hoping the the Vini + Mbappe + Non-existent RW will in some way click on. As a result of it may be simply and repeatedly exploited. After scripting this, i’m effectively conscious that if Mbappe/Vini rating within the subsequent sport. some of us will say “See? we by no means want a striker..and so forth and so forth”. Proper up till the subsequent workforce parks the bus on us.

DON’T KNOCK IT TILL YOU TRY IT

Let it’s that we tried Gonzalo/Endrick to play within the heart, subsequent to vini/mbappe and it didn’t work. Then by all means, lets persist with the duo clogging the left on a low block. However to not strive it and say we don’t want it, isn’t reflective of the true potential this workforce wields.

RAYO NEXT UP

Lets bounce again towards Rayo. Rayo have been doing fairly effectively for themselves. Defeating Lech Poznan within the convention league. A gradual string of wins and only one draw and 1 loss of their latest video games.