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Your After-Snubbing Edition of the Daily Merengue! The Open Thread/Daily Merengue is a place where you can discuss anything and everything related to football. Feel free to discuss the topics presented here, or start your very own discussions! The Open thread will be posted every day by one of the mods you?d love to go camping with: Valyrian Steel, Felipejack, Kung_Fu_Zizou (AKA KFZ), Juninho and, of course... yours truly.

Let?s Start with the Positives
Los Blancos are the best men?s club. And why the heck not! We may be having a bad period, but Real Madrid are coming off a great season.

? Real Madrid are named the Men?s Club of the Year at the Ballon d?Or.

No one from the club shows up at the ceremony as they all support Vini Jr. pic.twitter.com/IFAKnRor6J? Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 28, 2024
And that?s not all; Don Carlo, our legendary eyebrow, has won the best coach award! The man?s oozing class even in tweets...

I want to thank my Family, my President, my Club, my Players and above all Vini and Carvajal. pic.twitter.com/bdMJQmTflx? Carlo Ancelotti (@MrAncelotti) October 28, 2024

So, it Happened As Reported
A new day has dawned and Vinicius has not won the Ballon D?Or. Rodri did. Therefore things have transpired as reported - to everyone?s surprise - hours before the ceremony. Said reports were the reason Real Madrid refused to be present at the ceremony. Can?t say I?m too surpris...