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ASENSIO’S 2nd Facelift Surgery

Originally he started out as a #10 with wing capabilities, but football no longer has a need for #10’s anymore. So he became a full time winger...to the ire of many. Now he’s being operated on by Tactical Neuro-Botox, plastic Surgeon Dr. Ancelotti, whom famously performed similar surgery on Isco, turning him from a #10 to a CM. To great success. Unfortunately Isco couldn’t afford the seasonal payments of the surgery, therefore it was undone and Isco has never been the same since. Will this be the surgery that saves him and makes him more than just an impact sub?? Or will Asensio let us all down?

DAILY CASEMIRO PROPAGANDA

“One mans feet has stopped many nuclear wars, nullified many aerial attacks, destroyed many military grade war tanks, Silenced the raging Uruguayan Jungle federation leader and even toppled a very dangerous, autocratic, despotic & nefarious Argentinian dictator from power. Now he embarks on another crusade against the evil forces that are dangerously prepared to stop his Real Madrid.” - Written by A Casemiro Communist.

JAMETINHO

James Rodriguez & pHILIPpE cOUTINHO need to get together and start a round table AA discussion on where it all went wrong for them. James Rodrigues is on his way to the middle east to continue his footballing career, meanwhile Barca would rather play every La Masia teenager before they consider Coutinho for the lineup...

MY GOAL ESTIMATE PER MONTH FOR VINICIUS: 2

WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 REAL MADRID PLAYERS CURRENTLY IN THE TEAM?

Mine are:

1. Casemiro
2. Mendy
3. Vinicius
4. Militao
5. Vazquez