Friday, 15 January 2021, 10:36
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On Tuesday it was known that Jovic returns to Eintracht on loan until June. Immediately a good part of Madrid was divided between those who criticized Zidane for not giving him more opportunities and those who criticized Zidane for signing him.
The terrible contempt with which a sector of white fans systematically questions the coach with the best palmars in the entire history of the club in average titles / seasons is striking, a legend who twice went to the call for help from the entity and both times managed to raise a collapsed team to make it champion, someone who knows better than anyone what Real Madrid means and who represents the institution like no one else. But it is seen that not even a myth like Zidane, current league champion and one of the most successful coaches in current football (if not the most successful), deserves the respect, if not the credit, of permanently tense fans. In LaLigaFantasy Marca everything is easier than in real life.
Perhaps the reason for so much frustration is that Jovic’s has been one of the worst signings by performance, at least until today. A year and a half after his arrival, the 60 million they paid make it necessary to think about a failed investment attending to his poor 2 goals in 32 games (8 of them start), but it should be remembered that when Madrid decided on the Serbian striker he had a scoring 27 points in 48 games and at just 21 he was one of the most promising attackers on the scene as Haaland had yet to ‘explode’. The other two alternatives that the sports management then handled were Lautaro Martnez and Icardi, and in addition to the fact that they were much more expensive (they were around 100 million) they did not fit the profile of Benzema’s substitute they were looking for since they had Hazard and Asensio as theoreticians. headlines with Karim. It is difficult to maintain a good level striker who accepts the substitution, even for Real Madrid. Morata was the last and in the summer of 2017 after scoring 20 goals he got fed up and forced his departure to Chelsea. I only lasted a season.
Zidane is not responsible for Jovic’s failure in this first stage, nor is he responsible for the fact that the Serbian and Mariano score eight goals in the four seasons they have accumulated. The boy has had few opportunities but when he had them, he showed the same disconnection with the team’s game that he showed outside: various injuries, criminal complaint for skipping the pandemic in Serbia, barbecue with his friends in Spain when it was forbidden … Real Madrid great in every way, although we must trust that it matures and straightens its way.
Meanwhile, the perception grows that there is more and more distance between the club’s policy of signing young talent to train it and the management carried out by Zidane de Vincius, Rodrygo and Odegaard. It is so true that the technician seems too faithful to his old guard, as when the youngsters come out they are very lukewarm. They need minutes to gain confidence and be able to make mistakes, but that continuity is only achieved with time and patience. And we already see the little patience that some have with Zidane despite the fact that he wins.
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