Xabi Alonso divorced Real Madrid yesterday, shortly after 6 p.m. “Real Madrid CF announces that, by mutual agreement between the club and Xabi Alonso, it has been decided to end his mandate as first team coach. Xabi Alonso will always have the affection and admiration of all Madrid fans, because he is a Real Madrid legend and has always embodied the values of our club. Real Madrid will always be his home. Our club thanks Xabi Alonso and his entire technical team for their work and dedication during this period, and wishes them good luck for this new stage of their lives. »
Since then, the part of the Real Madrid press release indicating that this separation was decided by mutual agreement has caused a lot of talk on the other side of the Pyrenees. Very quickly, the first echoes from followers of Casa Blanca mainly pointed to a unilateral decision on the part of Real Madrid. Xabi Alonso spoke well yesterday morning with his leaders, upon returning from Saudi Arabia, but he only learned of his dismissal at the last moment. If the transfer window, physical problems and poor relationships with certain Merengue stars are among the factors put forward to explain Florentino Pérez’s choice to eject his coach, the latter did not leave without saying anything. The radio journalist Cadena SERAntón Meana, has in fact revealed that Alonso clearly expressed to his managers his disagreement with their way of managing the team.
Alonso criticized Real Madrid
“After returning from Saudi Arabia, they return home with a defeat and the feeling of having played well, but also of having failed. (…) In this last meeting, in which he was fired, he made it clear to the club that he could not give so much power to the players, which he sees as the main problem with his time at Real Madrid. The coach believes that he was left unprotected and is surprised by the club’s permanent defense of the locker room. As he has been criticized for not controlling the locker room, he believes that it is impossible to dominate a locker room when the club always sides with the players and not with the coach, even when he is right in his sporting decisions.he declared, before concluding.
Image generation in progress
“What those close to Xabi say is that he left at Christmas thinking that he could continue, that the situation could get better, that he had seen a series of encouraging signs during the last week of December, which hinted at a second part of the season where he could fight for the titles. » Unfortunately for Xabi Alonso, Florentino Pérez’s permanent doubts about him from the start of his adventure ended up harming him. For the moment, the 44-year-old coach has not yet come out of silence, but there is no doubt that his version is now impatiently awaited by the media.
