Vinicius Junior muttered \u201cI\u2019m leaving the team\u201d having failed to hide his frustration at being substituted in El Clasico and reports on Monday suggest he is \u2018seriously considering\u2019 an exit owing the lack of \u2018respect\u2019 afforded to him by manager Xabi Alonso. But where could he go? There\u2019s just one option.<\/p>\n
Vinicius<\/a> has helped Madrid win 14 trophies since his arrival in 2018, including three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues, playing a starring role in many of those triumphs. But the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or runner-up\u2019s frustrations \u2013 which have been bubbling under the surface for weeks at the Bernabeu \u2013 came to the surface as he stormed off the pitch on Sunday.<\/p>\n After starting on the bench for Madrid\u2019s previous league clash with Getafe, Vinicius was recalled to Alonso\u2019s XI as goals from Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham sealed Madrid a 2-1 win over their bitter rivals, but was withdrawn in the 72nd minute by Alonso and made it abundantly clear what he thought of his manager\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n \u201cMe? Me? Mister, mister! Me?\u201d Vinicius\u00a0was heard shouting at Alonso as his No.7 appeared on the fourth official\u2019s board.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old has played the full 90 minutes in just three of Madrid\u2019s 12 games in all competitions this season and before making his way straight down the tunnel, he\u2019s alleged to have muttered: \u201cAlways me! I\u2019m Leaving the team!\u00a0I\u2019m leaving, I\u2019d better go!\u201d<\/p>\n And according to AS, \u2018the option of leaving\u2019 is now \u2018being seriously considered\u2019 by Vinicius, who believes Alonso \u2018doesn\u2019t like him\u2019 and that his \u2018status isn\u2019t respected\u2019 by the Spaniard, with the growing rift between the pair a \u2018massive problem\u2019 for the club.<\/p>\n Alonso looked to pacify the situation after the game, saying: \u201cI\u2019m taking away many positive things from\u00a0Vini\u2019s game and I don\u2019t want to lose focus on what\u2019s important.<\/p>\n \u201cHe contributed a lot. It\u2019s an important victory, a deserved one. Regaining the feeling of a competitive team in big games is important. All coaches know there are different personalities.<\/p>\n \u201cNow we\u2019ll enjoy it, and when the time comes we\u2019ll talk about these things in the changing room, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n The report adds that the Madrid hierarchy are prepared to back any decision Alonso makes with regard to Vinicius\u2019 future having been far from impressed by the winger\u2019s reaction to being subbed.<\/p>\n And with it suggested last month that Vinicius may seek a January exit<\/a> having been benched for Madrid\u2019s Champions League opener, we can only assume his resolve to seek pastures new has gathered strength after this latest perceived snub.<\/p>\n But the question Vinicius and his representatives must now be asking is which clubs in world football could offer the \u00a3150m likely required to sign him, at least match his \u00a3350,000-per-week wages and be comfortable with the reality of him having to be\u00a0the\u00a0man at their club for fear of him throwing a hissy fit if that\u2019s not the case. And there\u2019s nowhere to go for him but Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Paris Saint-Germain used to be a landing spot for the star misfits of other European giants, but they\u2019ve become a serious football team\u00a0of late.<\/p>\n Liverpool made several Galactico signings in the summer, but to their cost so far this season, and we can\u2019t see Arne Slot welcoming such a character into his dressing room.<\/p>\n MORE REAL MADRID COVERAGE ON F365 If anyone could get a handle on Vinicius, it might just be Pep Guardiola, but Manchester City haven\u2019t typically chased players of such repute, other than Erling Haaland, who joined for the relatively meagre prices they\u2019re used to paying for their recruits.<\/p>\n Arsenal may still be after a left-wing upgrade, but much as we would enjoy his clash with Arteta, theirs is a boat that doesn\u2019t need rocking.<\/p>\n Manchester United aren\u2019t in a position to attract a player of Vinicius\u2019 quality even if they wanted to, and we can\u2019t imagine they do at a point where Ruben Amorim looks finally to have his squad pulling together as one.<\/p>\n There\u2019s very little chance of Chelsea paying that much for a player who is on the brink of being too old for them anyway at 25, and even less chance of Vinicius joining a club where the chances of the most major trophies look slim in the short-term.<\/p>\n And given there is no European club other than PSG outside the Premier League with the wherewithal to pay Real Madrid and Vinicius what\u2019s required to sign him, even assuming they had the desire, if we were his advisors, and weren\u2019t the money-grabbing so-and-sos we suspect they are, we would urge him to mend bridges which are currently singed at a club from which he has no better, or even remotely comparable, place to go, before he burns them beyond repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vinicius Junior muttered \u201cI\u2019m leaving the team\u201d having failed to hide his frustration at being substituted in El…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15133,6898,10287,914,61,60,1101,8579,917,43,3166,112,65450],"class_list":{"0":"post-107222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-f365-says","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-manchester-city","16":"tag-manchester-united","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-real-madrid","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-vinicius-junior"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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