On this Patron-only episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast, Kiyan Sobhani and Lucas Navarrete discuss:

- Why the Karim Benzema / Ferland Mendy / Vinicius Jr situation is a non-story

- How can Vinicius Jr improve his finishing?

- Which departure (non-Ronaldo) hurt Real Madrid the most in the past six years?

- Mesut Ozil vs Di Maria

- Could Carlo Ancelotti have accomplished the threepeat?

- Peak Paul Pogba vs peak Kevin de Bruyne

- Can Raphael Varane be a leader?

- 2009 redraft involving Karim Benzema, Luis Suarez, Robert Lewandowski

- And more.

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Lucas Navarrete (@LucasNavarreteM)