It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[Tb1981]

Real Madrid want him.

Swap with varane?

 

[Keeper!]

Real Madrid want him.

Can they afford him?

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Real Madrid want him.

They can fuck off

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Real Madrid want him.

Ah - that’s a shame.

I always felt he’d be off this summer if one of the Spanish clubs came in for him.

As much as I’d hate to see him go, as he’s an incredible player, I’d also completely understand his position.

I guess we try and bleed them for as much as we can, and add it to the Haaland deal!!

 

[FantasyIreland]

Real Madrid want him.

With the huge bonus being,they desperately need him.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Hang on, Laporte had the starting spot at the beginning of the season.

He didn't have to break into anything, he just had to play reasonably well next to one of the best central defenders on the planet, and he lost his place by making some really big mistakes and not performing - that's what let Stones in from the cold.

To want to leave after 6 months out of the starting lineup is incredibly weak if it's true. He doesn't even need to be better than Stones because Pep has said many times he prefers a left foot/right foot combination.

Amen. Perhaps we're also getting a possible insight into his character/mentality, why Deschamps, seemingly had an issue selecting him?

If anything, the team has shown for nigh on two seasons that life has gone on without as a reliable mainstay? As you rightly state, he was in possession of the shirt at the start of the season but a right-sided defender in Dias can actually do his job far better.

Stones has stepped up to the plate when the transfer planning seemed to suggest Dias and Laporte would be the centre-back partnership for the seasons to come, with Ake bought to play back up to Laporte.

Stones would have been told this summer in light of his contract entering his final year, yet his form has called for otherwise.

If anything, harsh as it would be, Ake, would be the easier sale to dispose of right now?

Unless Laporte and the disrespectful timing of these quotes, suggests he is now forcing the issue to leave.

 

[FantasyIreland]

This would make sense, committing his International future to Spain along with going to play there. A big career move internationally which would be cemented playing at Real.

Indeed,i've never been one for coincidences.

 

[citytill1die84]

60m plus

 

[Del_Bosque]

He's been pretty poor this year Laporte tbh

Problem he's got is we look miles more solid with Dias at LCB

Helps out Stones and the LB

Laportes got a lapse of concentration in him definitely

 

[Cheeky Txiki]