mathguy86 said:
The reports yesterday were that the head of the federation found out 5 minutes before RM made the announcement and that there was some dissention between the RM and Barca players in the clubhouse.
I kind of think RM orchestrated this. If everyone waits to make the announcement after the WC and the team flames out in R16, RM gets destroyed for this hire. They can't afford for him to lose out badly so they get him out of there.
And magically they don't have to pay the 2.0M buyout either huh? It's a fanciful theory but I doubt Florentino was trying to sabotage the national team. There's more than club at stake here.
But really I don't think he gets blamed all if he stays and they crash. Spain has the same problems they've always had. Great midfield but no great striker and they've struggled to integrate strikers they have. We can go through the list but foreigners make Spanish teams tick. Suarez and Messi at Barcelona (they cycled through a lot of strikers before Suarez), Ronaldo benzema at Real, it's griezman at atltico, and so on. Iaspas is their highest goal scorer on the roster and we'll see if he starts. It's a ready made excuse.