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Quote from: karabiber on July 15, 2025, 09:58:55 PM

At Real Madrid, it's not enough to play good soccer. It's also about satisfying egos, handling the press and winning trophies. This pressure is much greater than what Alonso experienced at Leverkusen. Alonso has a lot of potential to succeed in star management because he knows this environment as a footballer and he is intelligent. Xabi Alonso is also a former Real Madrid player. He knows the culture of the club and the dynamics in the dressing room. This could help him build a natural relationship of respect with the players.

There is still time for Xabi and the Madrid players to unify their vision as expected. Regardless of the egos of the star players, in the end, if they don't follow the coach's instructions, they will be eliminated from the main squad. So I'm sure the Madrid players will be mature in the coaching transition and do their best to build chemistry with each other.

Yeah they really need to work together as a team and listen to the coach if they want to lift a trophy next season for me one of the reasons why real Madrid is not really performing very well or as expected is because they are not working in unity, the players are really doing as they wish, I'm not seeing that team work in them, too much of Star players sometimes is not good for a team, when PSG had start players too much in there team it didn't work out well, they where unable to lift the champions League trophy, in PSG then we had the likes of kylian mbappe, Leo Messi and Neymar.
Right now real Madrid needs to put more effort they should play as a team in unity and Friendship just the way Barcelona are playing right now, they need to listen to the coach they have no option and since they know the coach is a good coach and has really helped Bayern Leverkusen I believe they won't want to disrespect the coach and if the coach can achieve them working in unity then I believe they will do more better and lift trophies.

To make this discussion it takes time. They must first work on themselves as a team, and with the coach who can give excellent advice, Xabi is a great coach who is doing his best and is fully committed but the players must follow him. Certainly the change of play is something that takes its time, before being implemented, so time will tell and we will see a Real Madrid that will lift a cup again, perhaps as important as the Champions League.