Edu Aguirre has been announcing Real Madrid's titles all season, up to seven. The season ends and Madrid finishes the year 2025 empty-handed. Edu Aguirre has been exposed and now blames the players for his lack of awareness of reality.
This is how he explained Real Madrid's "nada-ple" last night on El Chiringuito
"Stars without hunger"
"I will never be ashamed of being a Madrid fan, but I understand the anger. That Madrid went up 0-2 was circumstantial and coincidental.
Two runs, a Barça mistake, and that's it. A Barça blunder, but Madrid did nothing to go up 0-2. Then the team fell apart.
Because this is about having hunger. What was seen today is what has happened all season. Barça's players are young and hungry because they hadn't won anything last year.
They came out every game to eat the grass. Madrid's players are stars without hunger. That has been the season, and Ancelotti has paid the price.
The players have failed Ancelotti because Ancelotti has allowed them a lot. It was up to the players to prove something on the field. They haven't proved it.
Starting next season, I hope the players know what it means to represent Real Madrid's badge. They haven't done it this year. (We will all expect it)
A level of reflection that surpasses him
When you are competing for the League with Barça, you can't just flip a switch and be anxious. That has to be done in every game, in every training session. This is something that bothers me.
Today's defense is circumstantial, you can't ask for more. Only Asencio, the rest don't meet the level."
Curious reasoning, "you can't ask for more from this circumstantial defense." Won't he wonder why the club boasts about its economy and can't fill the gaps that injuries leave in its squad? Or does that level of reflection surpass him?
It's symptomatic that the same thing happened in Montjuïc as throughout the season. Listening to him on El Chiringuito all year, it seemed that Edu Aguirre didn't realize that Madrid's players weren't hungry.
"We will come back against Arsenal, we will win the Cup, we will win LaLiga..."
On the contrary, his speech went in the opposite direction: "we will come back against Arsenal, we will win the Cup final, we will win the League in Montjuïc."
Edu Aguirre's reasoning falls like a house of cards. That's what happens when you express yourself like a fan dreaming of your team's triumphs and not like a soccer analyst.
Edu Aguirre has been boasting while the results weren't definitive. "Now, Madrid, quiet...The worst Madrid of recent years with the worst Mbappé will win LaLiga," he said very recently.
In February he maintained "there is no league, Barça has shown that it is a very irregular team, unreliable, capable of the best but also the worst. The only team that is going up is Madrid, physically and technically.
"Anything less than a 20-point lead over Barça will be ridiculous"
Madrid has been very bad and can't be worse. It is growing. Barça was 9 points ahead and has dropped 16 points along the way."
Edu Aguirre hasn't apologized for his absurd predictions based on "I saw something...". Nor for his arrogance and pride. Like when he said "anything less than a 20-point lead over Barça in the League will be ridiculous for Real Madrid.
Anything less than playing against Barça and beating them by three or more goals will be a bad result for Real Madrid... Barcelona has nothing to do against Real Madrid."
He no longer remembers when last week he boasted: "They can't score 7 goals against Barça in two games," referring to the Champions League semifinal.
"Barça can't concede 7, Real Madrid can concede 16"
Barça can't concede 7 goals in 2 games. But Real Madrid can concede 16 goals from Barça in 4 games.
More: "the problem for Barça is Madrid. Having won LaLiga and the Champions League, they have signed the best player in the world, who scores 50 goals...
That Madrid won't be stopped. Vinícius alone has destroyed Barça in all the games by himself.
When Barça manages to hold Vinícius, Mbappé appears. When you manage to hold Vinícius and Mbappé, Rodrygo appears. If you manage, as a madness, to hold all three, Bellingham appears.
The septet at the start of the season
More: "If they win all seven, they will make a septet this season," said an euphoric Edu Aguirre at the start of the campaign. Indeed, if...
This gentleman is paid to express these things. You can't speak with more ignorance of reality and with a greater degree of fanaticism.
The problem is that they place him on Movistar as an analyst. They force us to endure him with sectarian reasoning that has nothing to do with soccer. Yes, with the dreams and illusions of a fanatic whose vision is clouded.
His ignorance of reality is so great that even hours before the last clásico he was convinced that Real Madrid was going to win LaLiga in Montjuïc. Surely he "saw things."
The worst part is that he doesn't remember what he says. Fortunately, the archive exists to portray the tribunes.