I agree with you, Alonso is just starting and so far his been trying and at the same time his improving that's an important thing for both him and the team. Even though Real Madrid is not a patient club and sure they will give him some preferences even though the desired results doesn't to immediately.
Me too, I still remember that wonderful season that he made history with Leverkusen, but I'm not expecting such an unbeaten season with Real Madrid.
Winning for Madrid is something they experience too often than they experience loses, to further make it even Interesting, they often win with epic moments and that in it's own gives them that reason not to be patient because they will be itching already to witness one of the epic moves and see their team do fantastically well, this happens to be the case with Madrid even if ideally it is not supposed, I want to believe that they will by the soon meet up with the expectations on the as Xabi is putting in the necessary efforts.