This week is the start of the Alonso era. Real Madrid will resume the path of training, and this time, it is under the orders of the former midfielder that the band of Kylian Mbappé will prepare. The objective is clear: to win this club world to save the pretty bad season that the Merengues have just had, and in addition recover a nice check from FIFA, since the winner of this new tournament should recover around 115 million euros. A nice little amount on which Florentino Pérez would not logically spit …
Real Madrid intends to offer a nice workforce to its new coach, and has already formalized the arrivals of Dean Huijsen and Trent Alexander-Arnold. Others should follow before the competition for the Merengues, who will start on June 18 against Al Hilal, like Alvaro Carreras and Nico Paz. Xabi Alonso knows that a lot of tactical work is necessary for training in the coming weeks and he therefore has a little more than two weeks to set up his tactics and his method …
Change of plan?
Especially that Marca We learn that in the end, he could continue to bet on the traditional 4-3-3 of Real Madrid and make a cross on his 3-4-2-1, a system which nevertheless walked for him in Leverkusen. He would not be convinced that he had the necessary players to evolve in this training, especially with a view to this world of clubs where he will have to compose with injuries behind. But above all, Xabi Alonso expects a lot from the most offensive players on the team.
The Basque tactician will thus demand the team stars that they give themselves defensively, which has clearly not been the case this season. Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius Jr, for example, were the titular attackers who traveled as few kilometers in the Champions League, a sign that the defensive withdrawal was not always well done. For Alonso, out of the question to review such things this season, and the stars of the Merengue stable will have to sacrifice themselves and get involved in defensive work. This is a subject that also worries the new coach, which will be uncompromising with its offensive stars. Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius Jr are warned.
