I think Real Madrid might find world class players time and again, but it will be very difficult to find replacement for Florentino Perez

Florentino Pérez is the GOATfather

One thing they forget is that florentino perez has a rule that after 30 the vets take a small salary cut and season by season performance in order to extend their contracts, which i think is a key thing in the team

Henry is right, Real Madrid knows when to release legendary players in the squad, Ronaldo, Casemiro, Varane, and who to keep. Modric is 38 y.o, Kroos is 34 and RM keeps renovating their contracts. They are essential mentors to new midfield players like Bellingham, Tchoumeni or Camavinga. It's the reason RM keep winning CL, they know how to transition their squad.

Real Madrid got rid off Di Stefano in 1964, and he was the best player in the history of this club. And they won the UCL in 1966, just two years after his departure

Henry is right. Mentorship is very important for sustainability and longevity. Kroos and Modric are mentors for the young team, look how Messi suarez and neymar left and never mentored anyone in Barca not Gavi, Pedri Ansu Fati or any of the others, and it shows in their struggles in Barca. That's why Real Madrid have dominated for decades.

I remember being so mad at Madrid for getting rid of Ozil...tbh still upset about it 😂😂

,,I'm not going to name the whole squad" Class recognizes class

Is like building the first global empire on earth, bravery, experience, perfect timing, never giving-up, making hard decisions, never looking back, and always being fair and equal to all.

Balance is key.

I have to say that I’m concerned as a Real Madrid fan. When things start looking too good to be true, this… “super team”, it probably IS too good to be true. I don’t think we’ll be that unstoppable.

It's seems funny to me as Madrid used to get bash for "NOT RESPECTING THEIR LEGENDS" for not renewing contracts or not giving fancy farewell..

Bro said "let them retire on somebody elses pitch"....BARZ😂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

rather than knowing to let players go, its the players that had been brought in had been outrageously talented. when benzema was planning to go to saudi, they already plotted to bring in mbappe even though vinicious and rodrygo had been outstanding. its actually became easier for real to attract young talented players by pitching the ucl dominance.

The recruitment they do,pick up young Brazilian talent,give them time to develop like Rodyrgo,vinicius and who knew valverde,brahim diaz,from city,to milan and loan,doing well now.Thir scouting and the players they recruit,play their for years.Legendary club

Thierry said it right. Look how calm Madrid were when they had to chase a result against Barcelona. Modric and Kroos, the two old legs, you don't expect them to run like teenagers anymore. What you need from them is continuity and experience. They slow down the game, control the ball movements and poke for cracks in the defense of the opponents. The younger guys are watching and learning, especially Bellingham. Jude is very confident but brashful and egotistic at times. If he watches Modric and Kroos long enough, he'll probably learn how to bring his game up another level or two.

modric and Kroos LEGENDS to come back coach Madrid

All the credit goes to one man only Florentino Perez, absolute genius, best president in the history of football. Bringing legendary players from all out the globe.

Remember this is a Real Madrid team transitioning from the departures of Bale, Benzema... and replacing those important pieces little by little, not all at once. This season they had to cope many months without Militao and an entire season without Alaba and Courtois. The next phase will be scary I reckon.

Wow , Henry explains and everyone so engrossed in his explanation, probably didn’t even want him to stop😂😂

I'm a Madrid fan through and through for all my life!

Is great to heard this from a ex barcelona player,so much respect for a Terry and great point of view

Jamie its not Cruz but Kroos

I like this young guy güler

Kroos played masterfully vs RB

"Kroos won't be far behind him" Kroos is, was & always been better than players like Modric, Xavi & Iniesta . Kroos is one of a kind, no player in history was or is like Toni Kroos & it's kinda sad nobody sees it, they just see him as part of the success, not the reason for it . Everyone will see the impact of Toni Kroos at Real Madrid the day he leaves .

2:29 Jamie had a very good point there

If you think about it, Madrid bought Ronaldo for €80-€90 million used him for over a decade and go over at five champions league him and then sold him to Juventus for €100million profit and remember they got five champions, leagues, and how many la liga titles out of him . Perez is a genius

It's not hard to sell players at the right time when you know you are one of only 2 clubs in the world which can attract any player any time as their replacement.

Jose Mourinho: "Jamie Carragher talks too much for someone who isn't even among the top 1,000 defenders in football history. How can someone who never won the Premier talk about what it takes to win the Premier.” 🤣🤣

Funny how everyone talking about the „old“ Kroos. I mean he is the best player this season together with Bellingham. He is at a level right now where you can’t find a second player worldwide. Bellingham and KDB are there, but they got different roles. Kroos is a big factor at RM. and even Modric with his 38 still got it. Let these two cook

I know today's game wasn't upto the mark obviously it was important and we just wouldn't step up offensively However the attitude of midfield and Lunin sailed us through.. Let's hope for the best..Hala Madrid

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The irreplaceable here is Florentino Perez. The mastermind ! All others come and go… once Florentino is gone, we’ll see what happens . He is the real GOAT

real madrid over two legs yes we didnt play good. but the individual on this team is insane:D ADD ALPHONSO, MBAPPE AND ENDRICK. THE TALENT IS INSANE!! what titi said today coming from him. we lose players that scores 300 goals and also 400 goals. im talking about ronaldo and benzema. we still win CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WITH OUT RONALDO. also the final against liverpool 2022 dear people whom are a premier league fan or barca fan. hate on madrid all u want but the titles says alot of this team and the history! even a legend as thierry henry says this team is good and also how the maage to get rid of top players and still compete for big titles and also win alot without big players. i think galactico 3.0 will be insanely good for 2024/2025 campaign. sure we were not good against leipzig but still make the job to go trhue. dont forget not many teams plays 60 to 70 games per season like rel madrid. we won without benzema being the vital in the final. the journey to the final it was benzema and vini show. we lose players like ronaldo, benzema and much more but we still find a way to build for the new generation. not many teams can do that. in 5 games we have been good in champions league. this two legs against leipzig was the best but in champions league is not always how u play. is how us ave the energy and play stretegic :D real madrid with theese players always find away. people say its luck that real madrid have. 14 champions league titles says another thing. the experience this team got and also building the new generation of talent by using modric and kroos as the veterans. u cant ask for more better legends to learn from. i think we have been good in la liga this year with only 18 goals conceded! the statistic without alaba and militao is insane all alone this season. its talk about real scouting a center back in ligue 1 named leny. young and tall. he reminds of varane. imagine him and militao. i am impressed what i have seen in him. rudiger has stepped up this season witout alaba and militao for a along time. carlo ancelotti makes this team work with alot of injuries. that makes him a good trainer! ! for a while we had 7 players out of injuries nut still won difficul matvhes. thats not look thats experience and also good job with the management of carlo! people forget we have played rudiger and nacho half season and had have more then 36 injuries alone. but at the same time we have been impressive this season. the only team that have beated real madrid is atletico. mbappe will adapt too a 4-4-2 formation with vini on top with him. also play rodrigo in a 4-3-3 Bellingham behind rodrigo,mbappe and vini. when we attack is 4-2-3-1 with mbappe alone up there. ancelotti can put any team or formation we will still win. that makes this team better then all in europe! over two legs we havent been good but still always manage to go true because of this talent in this team. we dont have to play good but if we have the players or in the right place and right time. this team is to much. the history of madrid makes u wanna play in this team. we have more history then many teams out there! we have more success in this squad alone! we have more then 20 champions league titles togethere whom have won ins this current squad. we still are in a growing phase. this squad can learn alot from modric and kroos. the veteranes will show the way for the youngsters. people say varmadrid but they are just jealous of this magnitude of this team. this team alone can dominate europe for 8 years to come. kroos will renew and also modric. they can win 7-8 titles more and will end up with 30 trophies each. the age of this team is soo young! the old galactico with figo, beckham,zidane, ronaldo and also roberto carlos. they didnt won many champions league. its the formula. not always the best players that makes the team unstoppable! right manager and right formula. now we have bellingham,ibrahim, endrick, tchoumeni, camavinga,valverde,nico paz, ardda guler and soon mbappe. we will dominate europe ! we will make the ego mbappe work hard as vini at the defence. carlo manage to make star players work like a unite. people hype city because they won it once. not many team has won it 3 times in row! (champions league) copa de reyes! it means king of europe for a reason! fear madrid ins this years to come. cama and tchoumeni is in the learning phase still. they will play till they aare 30 and still dominate with valverde. put arda guler in the mix aswell! uno,does, trec hala madrid!

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We didn't get rid of Ozil, Casemiro, CR7, or Varane. They all left for different reasons but no one at the club forced them out of the team. Florentino did an amazing job at replacing them after they were gone plain and simple. Casemiro & Cristiano have both said they knew it was time to try new challenges but really it was also a big $ factor. They made more after leaving and Real succeeded without them regardless

Micah talking about City's experience as if half of the Real Madrid team aren't multi UCL winners or at least just 1 time UCL winners

These guys just talked about Kronos and modric and made a century long conclusion what the hell

From Kroos, Modric and Casemiro to Bellingham, Camavinga and Tchouameni

Casameiro wanted a new challenge, Madrid wanted him to stay. Ronaldo wanted a new challenge, Madrid wanted him to stay. Varane wanted to leave, Madrid would have been happy with him staying. Benzema wanted a new challenge, Madrid wanted him to stay for at least another season. Henry definitely did not get his facts right. One thing to know is that most of these players leave after they’ve accomplished everything with Madrid because they want a relief from the high pressure on them to achieve everything year after year.

The time for Özil wasn't there. They shouldn't have let him go. It was premature.

Don’t think we can get pass MC😢, still missing spark at front need KM next season

Lucky to be in the draw for the next round. Leipzig finishing was abysmal

The current rule in the squad is if you are over 30 you will get a contract on year by year basis. Which didnt sit well with Sergio El Capitano Ramos and he left.

But I think it's not always calculated to have that effect... Some things just happen because Madrid wasn't always dominant until they won la decima which coincided with barcas deterioration. I think pundits tend to dig out more than there's in a situation..

Zidane for RM President!

I respect henry for saying it is easier in the premier league

When the biggest fan of a club leads the club's board, it always ends up in the best side for the club. And perez is undoubtedly the biggest madridsta out there

we Are Real Madrid and this is our competition

I love Real Madrid

Any sports organization can benefit from the same strategy. Letting players leave, transferred or traded to make room for talented young players and just keep a few good mentors. Aging stars who cant teach or mentor players lose value. They become a liability with no real benefit to the organization. Its a very steady flow rather than rebuilding abruptly and be in turmoil.

Need some time to digest tht jimmy actually said something good about my club 😂

Endrick is also going to Real Madrid in July 2024. Top, top player.

On the pitch, only one thing can stop Madrid: the manager. They let go of Casemiro because Tchouameni was there, let go of Ramos because Alaba was coming. Will they let go of Ancelotti when Xabi is the upcoming top manager? I have my doubts, they just renewed Ancelotti for another year...

Ozil was the only one that they mentioned, that left at the wrong time. Not just for Madrid but for Ozil as well. He left just before their ucl dominance. I do wish he left with Di Maria, a year later. Only after, winning the champions league. Ozil went on to win the world cup that year anyway and that's more important and valuable, than the champions league anyway

1:35 - They didn’t want to get rid of Casemiro. Madrid wanted him to stay, he wanted to leave and get a big payday and they would get a fee for him they wouldn’t have got after that. The other examples were right though.

I can see the UCL commentators doing a normal job just like before. Also all the social media entertainment really has people distracted. The low effort entertainment system of emerging social media makes it hard for our brains to focus on the hard working things. It's a hard pill to take for everyone in the world.

Real Madrid didn't release their top ever scorer Ronaldo, he released himself from them. According to him, it was about the time and when a reporter asked him why he was leaving a club where he was winning everything even at that very time, he said, "life is not always about glory, there's more to life than that". He, probably, was referring to love and appreciation.

Toni Kross and Luka Modric are back bone of Real Madrid for winning Champions League

Yeah i see what you're doing there with the reverse jinx Micah 😂😂 but I respect the hate

I'm pretty sure they choose their players not only based on football playing but also based on personality background. No Divas allowed since CR7 got away. And even he was a player who would not bring any problem to the dressing room.

Kroos needs a new haircut

Ramos is the perfect example of this

Super team and only Arda Guler can give final pass, take set pieces and he sits on the bench,the moment kroos and modric leave,ppl will understand unless arda guler steps up coz the other midfielders don't have that ceiling

We lose our main 2 CB, next season we won the CL.

To the contrary. Casemiro wanted to move on, CR7 moved on too not because the club didn't want him. Everything correct but moving on of players isn't really a madrid thing. A lot of players left because of competition. For instance they kept Bale until his contract and injuries took toll on him. They kept a useless Hazard too.

The depth in their squad? The first time in many decades doesn't have a clear number 9 the main keeper in injured, the 2 main CB are injured yet they won agains a 100% read man city, why? Because of the winning mentality and discipline, just notice how every player that goes to madrid changes completely in terms of those 2 elements, this is why Real madrid is leagues above the other teams

The only difficulty Real Madrid will face is getting a replacement for Florentino Perez

The main thing isn’t then selling players at the right but the players above 30 want a 3 year contracts. They only offer 1 year contracts when you reach a certain age. That’s why the players leave. Ramos was handed a contract offer and when he decided he wanted to stay, they took it back. Casemiro got a 3 year deal with a massive salary at United. Same with Varane. That’s a no brainer. Real Madrid doesn’t let them go. You see Modric and Kronos are still playing. I think they are one of the few players who are okay with short term contracts. That’s a strategy, but I wouldn’t say they get rid of players. Øzil was in his prime when he left Real Madrid. He wasn’t a overages player. I really really like Henry’s insight, but he uses very bad examples and doesn’t always explain the whole context behind things. For him to say they knew when to let Øzil go?😂 Are you serious? They were missing him straight away. Same with Ronaldo. I get his point but it’s about the length of the contract. The players would have still been there if they signed 1 year contracts. Some players want security while others can play with that uncertainty.

Thanks for odegaard

Everyone keeps saying “super team” but let’s give Flo some credit. It took Rodrygo & Vini 2-3 seasons to get to a level like this. & though there were rough seasons, it never looked THAT bad.

Underrated opinion: PREMIER LEAGUE IS OVERRATTED - Only ManCity and Arsenal left in UCl (arsenal lost 1-0 first legg) - Brighton lost 4-0 to Roma - West Ham lost 1-0 to Freiburg - Aston Villa draw against the worst Ajax in lik 30 years. I’m nit saying the prem is bad. Just way overhyped

I also admire Real as a close follower of both Milanese clubs. Actually, Milan was not that far from real before the 2013-14 season as they had already won their 7th Champions League back in 2006-07. But they are still stuck in this overall for ages, while Real has added another 5 Champions League during this time span. 🫡

How do you get your team in champion league and play like that is beyond me. ( leipzi played bad in their finishes

Hazard 😂 be let’s destroy the party

Now everyone fears Madrid 😂

Madrid keeps selling lemons to Man Utd lol

Thierry is wrong about Casemiro, the Brazilian wanted to leave as he felt satisfied with all the achievement he has done. Ancelotti didn't want to sell him and so as Perez. you where sharp Infront of the Goal but not on your facts.

Modric is a bigger player than xavi+iniesta combined. Won ballondor, won 5 ucl, almost took croatia to wc glory and now developing new talent.

but casemiro has been the best player of man united for the last two years... look at them with /without casemiro on the pitch...

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team is beyond players but it was never time for cristiano he is the prince of bernabeu

Except they didn’t get rid of half of the players he mentioned. Saying they got rid of Ronaldo is crazy, when he left after carrying them to a CL trophy and winning the Balon D’or (which was given to Modric for reasons no one knows). He left because they refused to raise his salary, at which point he could’ve stayed but he wanted to show that if they don’t value him enough, he can go somewhere else and still be great. Which he did. I mean, sure, he didn’t win the CL, but he was the best striker in Italy; he had an incredible season in the PL with the worst MU team; and he became the top scorer of 2023 with Al Nassr.

Florentino kicked out ,redondo,hierro,del bosque,Raúl,Robben,di María,Ozil,CR7,casillas and Ramos when they were playing good also all of them were feeling unchangeable,Florentino Knows better than anyone else how how this business works

Madrid need a striker , they miss Benzema , unfortunately Mbappe won’t be there until the summer .

Why is it so hard to say Kroos for a englishman? It's not Cruise and it's not difficult at all to say

Without any star player real madrid are still the best. They work as a team.

These pundit still get it wrong...especially when it comes to Real Madrid. This praise now is damage control for their horrible predictions.

There's a 17yo player from Brazil called Riquelme that Florentino is gonna bring too

I´m real madrid fan and what says Henry is not right... he assumes Real Madrid managers have a cristal ball to see the future and how players will perform in the future, they dont... what Real Madrid do is to let go out any player who dont want to stay in the team... normally that happens because they got a better offer than what Real Madrid was offering (Casemiro, Varane, Di Maria), OR they got tired to stay at the bench (Isco, Asensio, Kovacic...) which is very good because 1) you only have players that fully want to stay in Real Madrid - 2) Players know if they ever get a super-offer from some other team, Real Madrid is going to let them go easily as longer as the other team offer something reasonable.... also Real Madrid no longer offer long extensions of contract to players older than 30 years old, and start to work based on their last year performance rather than in their expected future performance

If Mbappe arrives, a few players will go. Either Brahim Diaz, Arda Güler or Nico Paz

the only super-team remaining in the europe @ this moment is man city...while real madrid are not living up to their standards...they barely hung on to that fixture against leipzig

If Man Utd had been as ruthless over the last 10-12 years, they might not have ended up where they are now

they just got good now and that's thanks to kroos and modric longevity. real madrid STRUGGLED when RONALDO left. it's a fact.. then next season they had benzema step up and everyone playing for him. they still haven't replaced benzema and won't so all this talk is just annoying

Real Madrid are the pinnacle of world football.

Henry is righ. However i think ronaldo could have play in real madrid at least 3 more years instead of buyin hazard.

Man United is almost as big but cannot do anything like this.

Real madrid unbeatable

I got it...but Ronaldo should have played atleast more 3 seasons ...