After Real Madrid's unsuccessful attempts to sign Manchester United's Paul Pogba in the summer, the recent impressive displays of Fede Valverde have left Los Blancos confident that they are better off without the Frenchman.
Zinedine Zidane had identified Pogba as his top priority to strengthen a midfield that had been lacking energy and youth among other things, and was desperate for his fellow countryman to join the club.
The sales of Mateo Kovacic and Marcos Llorente as well as the loan departure of Dani Ceballos meant that Zidane was left with few choices other than those he worked with in his first spell at the club, plus Valverde.
Early season injuries in that department, particularly to Luka Modric, made Zidane's life difficult but it was during that period in which he discovered that the solution to his midfield problems had been in front of him all along.
The coach is clearly delighted, but so are the club after deciding not to part ways with an amount in excess of 120 million euros to sign Pogba.
Zidane has a tenacious midfielder in Valverde who has provided Madrid with many of the qualities that the coach had been looking for from a big name and, at just 21 years of age, Los Blancos appear to have a gem in their ranks for a long time to come.
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Zidane came to destroy Madrid because he should had been doing this long to build Madrid on these promising young players but instead depends on those old players he has used for over four seasons and again fighting to win trophies to boost his name and escape again leaving Madrid without future. I don’t still know what Zidane came for to build Madrid with those promising young players or came to use these old players to reap glory again, I still can’t understand. Currently I am seeing coach Ernesto Valverde building Barcelona on young players instead of too much old players by pairing these young players with the experience ones until they can get proper game time. But Zidane big justification is that he can’t put 120Million, 40milliom, 200million players on bench when they can’t perform. We new team with more young force than old set of players and old system no improvement. Zidane last term on Madrid, the team tow the highest number of draw, no systematical pattern, as you watched Madrid playing you worrying whether there be win or draw no guarantee goal score but rather trill behind or opponent team trilling one after the other with score