Fiasco en La Coruña

What can I say. Yesterday's match at Depor was a continuation of the previous match before Christmas. Real was terrible. The team looks to be in chaos. Even with the 'doble pivote' everyone hated the defense was better and they won many games playing ugly.

Robinho was left out of the match. Completely. Technical decision. What? The best player of the team not even included in the lineup.

Capello still has Ronaldo benched. Ronaldo is the best striker in the world and has decided so many matches, why in the world is he not playing? He is being unnecessarly overhumilated and is still commited to Real Madrid. Ruud is great but Ronaldo is just as good or better.

Raul needs to be either dropped to the bench or moved up to all-out forward where he may be effective again.

Guti is not consistent, but was injured at the beginning of the match.

Many of the players don't give it their all. The team cracks under pressure of the opposing team but applies no defensive pressure themselves. Also, since generally all the players under-perform, the line-up changes a lot.

I believe their are simply too many high profile players causing too many to sit on the bench. There are many problems still. All new signings quickly lose their form upon arrival.

What will it take to turn this team around?

Becks, Stay put!

Marca is up to no good, sighting a vote on the page favoring the arrival of Ribery in place of David Beckham. I really dislike it when these type of newspapers critisize and create controversies. I guess that's how the sell newspapers. They frequently cause problems with their headlines and polls.

The most previous case being when Aragones briefly resigned as Spain's manager because of all the pressure from the press. I also remember not too far back when Marca posted the following headline "Vamos a jubilar a Zidane" (We're going to retire Zidane) before the France-Spain world cup tie. What an arrogant statement to make and of course, we then lost to France and were knocked out of the world cup. They could of said, "Let's hope we retire Zidane..". I enjoy reading Marca but now and then I get upset with the some of headlines and controversies they stir up.

Getting back to Becks, apparently Marca claims that people wants Beckham out in favor of Ribbery. Truth is - the fans love David Beckham. All of the complaining of the past few years about the players not giving it all they've got, not running, not working hard, has never been directed at Beckham.

The England national side has been worse without his participation. It seems like Maclaren was trying to make a statement by dropping Beckham but I think he's made a mistake.

Beckham wants to stay and he should stay on board until he gets those trophies he's been sweating for the past 3 years. Stay put Becks, the trophies are coming as well as regular first team action.

Looking forward to next weekends match at Deportivo it looks like Gago may be starting in his first match alongside Emerson with Guti in front, Ronaldo at forward, Raul on the left and Beckham on the right.