Unlike Ancelotti, I see that Alonso works with the players a bit differently. When Ancelotti was the coach, everyone noted that the atmosphere within the team was very friendly. Ancelotti tried to maintain very good relationships with each player. With Alonso, things are a bit different he tries to take a more professional approach, and it’s already clear that he doesn’t have the best relationship with Rodrygo. I believe the same is happening with some other players at Real Madrid whom he doesn’t plan to work with. That’s why I think this is also affecting the atmosphere within the team, and not in the best way.
I would assume that he saw how "friendly" Ancelotti ended up losing last year, and there was an issue between the players and what they want. So, there needs to be something that needs to change and Xabi just made them realize again that they are getting paid hundreds of millions of euros per year together for a reason and that reason is to win.
Not sure if it will work better or not, maybe it will get better so there is a need that they need to make sure that we can definitely do a better job. If they believe in what they are doing, then they can do a better job. We should be focusing on how to get a greater return, and with Real Madrid has to be very careful and could do a better job if Xabi can do a good job with players giving their all.