Of course, Real Madrid squad is a blessing to a professional coach because he can try so many strategies and find the best one that can be used to outsmart his opponents and adopt it. Xabi Alonso is a good coach with great experience, so I am not worried about him improving the team performance. He needs time to study and understand the players and for the players to understand his game pattern.
Is true a professional coach who knows what advantage of quality players has will only be praying for a club with the record to hire them to coach because they already knows what they would do with the players, strategies is like a recipe that each coaches has there unique own and the person that has the best brings the best results, is unfortunate for most of the coaches that might be struggling in coaching some of the teams that isn't strong to use his strategy with results. Real Madrid truly need such coach who would look at the players and no what to do with them.
I am having the feeling that Xavi Alonso and Real Madrid might struggle for a while even beyond what most of us expected.
You have to understand that Real Madrid is a big club and they would not take any chances of trial and error in order to know what to happen. They will definitely need an immediately result, this is just certain.
In the other hand, Xavi Alonso is a legend of Real Madrid and also a good coach who has proven himself in the German bundesliga. So we do not also expect him to take much time to adapt to the Real Madrid team. This is where the problem lies. Before both the team and the coach will understand themselves and synchronize, Barcelona will be on their way waxing strong in the season.