Juan Román Riquelme

Which Villarreal player?

Uh, Riquelme.

Riquelme, correct.

Oh, I hate you.

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What a fucking eejit.

Riquelme, baby.

No chance.

Hindle Nut says, "Do you think Real Madrid would have gone in a better direction had Riquelme won the elections? I think it's time for Real Madrid to begin a new era with a different president, preferably with a sporting director." We have no idea, bro.

We ha- we just have no idea.

We can hypothesize about what would happen, and even if, like, Real Madrid were great at September 29th with Riquelme in charge, we don't actually knows what that would mean long term and, and it's just too small of a sample size.

We also don't know if this season is doomed yet.

We don't know.

It's just too soon the other way.

T- too soon to, to know either way.

I think they would.

I guess the question, though, is, like, it kind of, it, it kinda made us think, like, with the election and how much attention Riquelme brought to it, it kinda did, like, kinda, like, s- spur us, spur other fans on and be like, "Yeah, that's the energy we need." That I, I felt like we...

There are, there are definitely times where I think we've been too buddy-buddy with them, with Florentino, whether it was helping register Olmo, um-

The Super League.

The trickier thing is if, if that's true, and again, I don't, I don't...

I have no idea if that's true or not, obviously.

But, um, that was one of the, like, the things that Riquelme emphasized over and over again, was that, like, it's crazy that this is happening and this is being let go.

I guess we'll also see what happens with M- But the reason I answered that yes is because, you know, they've, they've wanted to be, extend this.

He's older than his own manager, which is rare enough to be mentioned.

And he still plays like in, I don't know, it looks like year 2000 when like, you know, when this shirt was being worn, he played so slowly like a Riquelme type.

And yet you can't get the ball off him.

He never... there's no a mispass no a bad touch nothing it's just everything is so clear tidy just he's brilliant he's amazing for me he's the best player in the Premier League so far this season I would give it to Pascal Groth he also

Migs says, knock, knock.

Who's there? Vote Riquelme.

Too late for that.

I didn't have a vote.

He's kinda sliding in from close range, balloons it over the bar, which you're thinking, "Oh, that, that was the, that was the moment maybe for Parrott." But then Bartra equalizes in the second half, and then two minutes later, maybe three minutes later, one chance falls his way and this happens.

Riquelme.

Pulled back as he went to get away.

Play on, says the referee.

So it was 2-2, and Betis won it with a Troy Parrott goal.

Riquelme was bustling through midfield.

It looked like he was fouled, and the Lille players kind of all paused because I think they were expecting the ref to blow his whistle, but he didn't.

He played a, played advantage.

Riquelme played the ball through to Parrott, and he jinked one way and the other to make a bit of room against the, the defender that was on him, and then rolled a lovely shot into the far corner.

Uh, so fair play to him.

I think that's two goals he's scored since going to Betis, and two big goals.