The archetype – La Galerna

All males are the identical man. All moments are the identical second. Each Sunday is identical Sunday. All Madrid’s shitty video games are the identical Madrid’s shitty sport. Our lives revolve round an archetype. An incessant loop is repeated, repeated over and over, the limitless strategy of pleasure, crying, boredom and ecstasy from which in the future we must get out, as a result of we now not have that candid and indulgent age of youth through which the one regrets have been that Madrid didn’t win.

Since Elclásico unusual issues have occurred. Madrid beat Barcelona after which the squad determined, just like the Praetorian Guard, to play the emperor’s crown at cube. I assumed then that one thing was born that day, that one thing had arisen and right here I left it in writing. The group was rising, it was galvanized spiritually… however, after the Valencia sport, there was merely a wierd collapse.

We now have seen this so many instances already, and but we have no idea what can occur. There are a number of eventualities: the Lopeteguian one, that’s, the pre-Christmas layoff; the camachesco or cessation, the tardomourinhista or prolongation of the agony with bouts of enthusiasm and several other peaks of frenetic desperation, and, lastly, the zidanesco or magical restoration.

All males are the identical man. All moments are the identical second. Each Sunday is identical Sunday. All Madrid’s shitty video games are the identical Madrid’s shitty sport

There isn’t any have to idiot your self both. The template is just not sufficient. There are a number of gamers whose efficiency is way beneath their self-perception. What about Rodrygo Ganges, as they are saying, is already bordering on prison. He looks like a shadow, a specter out of Dante’s Purgatory, and maybe Alonso’s insistence on aligning him responds to the membership’s intention to show him for the winter market. Which is smart as a result of, when you do not play, you devalue your self. However, each time this man performs, his worth as a patrimonial asset falls in the identical proportion through which the Spanish State indebts its future topics each minute of each hour of day-after-day: exponentially.

The membership, however, is going through extra severe issues than only one season. It’s transferring in the direction of one other possession and administration mannequin, it isn’t but identified which one. However the truth itself is of such significance that the problems within the locker room and what occurs on the pitch, regardless of how embarrassing it might be for the long-suffering followers that we’re, stay an anecdote.

There’s discuss of mattress, that a number of heavyweights within the sales space don’t settle for Alonso or his strategies; that they have been so comfy, what Ortega Cano stated, with Ancelotti and his patronage indulgence that, after all, working now, with the chilly, and spending hours watching movies of how Elche performs… It’s comprehensible however, after all, neither Valverde nor Vinicius, nor Bellingham, a lot much less Camavinga, nonetheless have the stature that Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos, Luka Modric, Casemiro or Toni Kroos had after they gave him Rafa Benítez or Lopetegui: we’ve to win extra European Cups and, above all, reveal far more class in soccer, which solely comes with age. Possibly they suppose they’re higher than they are surely. Possibly somebody from above will as soon as once more fall into the concept of ​​pondering {that a} group like Madrid goes alone. The very fact is that, as I stated originally, we’ve seen this a number of instances earlier than, and one is already too outdated for these tales.

If the Madrid locker room is Bernarda’s pussy, who bells the cat? Is it price sitting down to look at a sport? Valverde appears to not run and along with his laziness he turns Álvaro Rodríguez, about whom I wrote some enthusiastic tweets within the warmth of his objective towards Atlético, into Rivaldo, as Hughes says in his chronicle. And if Valverde, an egregious determine of historical South American cancherismo, is concerned in these actions, the an infection appears very severe. It is curious how all this stuff about beds and deliberate sloppiness are at all times attributed to Brazilians, it’s undoubtedly a really widespread prejudice, as if Uruguayans and Argentines have been such powerful individuals, Castilians from the Río de la Plata, that they did not undergo these quilombos. What are preconceived concepts. Maybe there’s not even something preconceived within the apathetic perspective of the Madrid gamers, in spite of everything footballers are typically feelings with legs and, then, the concept of ​​the iron scalpel is just not fully loopy. However for that the management should additionally pay attention to the issue. Who higher than Florentino to do the pruning? Within the winery, when winter ends, castra is carried out, which is a sanitation pruning in order to not hurt the standard of the wine. It’s carried out not with scissors however with a knife, and shoots which can be inexperienced and that, in look, current a wonderful and promising look are eliminated.

The outdated individuals from earlier than stated that the world, many instances, wants one in every of these castras to proceed functioning.

The poem The Labyrinth that Borges wrote in Reward of the Shadow involves thoughts: we’re trapped in a jail with out doorways and the longer term is “the hated path of monotonous partitions” that’s future, our future as Kafkaesque Madridistas. As an alternative of the usury of the times, our persistence suffers the usury of the seasons, all equal and on the similar time totally different: I want this have been the final day of ready for a Might that, in November, at all times appears so far-off…

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