Xabi Alonso is still the same coach who months ago amazed everyone in command of his Bayer Leverkusen. On Tuesday night he plays it against Bayern Munich, with a practically impossible result as is the 3-0 of the first leg, but whatever happens nothing will have changed and in his team they are looking forward to that yes to that continuity that he has already signed. There is still no definitive answer, but nothing has to do with what happens to the Bavarian team and whether or not to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Champions League, something that seems utopian at this time.
Just a year ago, he decided to turn his back on Liverpool and Bayern Munich, to continue with the project that was shaping the Leverkusen. The season ended successfully, conquering Bundesliga and Cup. Now fights for the first, but the European goal is being further. In Leverkusen they want him to continue, but Xabi Alonso still does not pronounce. He wants to compromise anyone and as has happened on other occasions, his head will ponder the situation and the answer to what his heart tells him.
Real Madrid, without hurry
Meanwhile, Real Madrid, as has been the case for more than a decade, seasons are taken as an analysis, as a reflection, what is happening and what can happen in the future. Their decisions, those of the leaders, are often out of what is said abroad, as it is being verified year after year, especially that of the future of coaches, something that Carlo Ancelotti knows very well.
Xabi Alonso Safe having the mind stuck exclusively at Bayern.
The demand continues to grow, perhaps in an exaggerated way, but is something admitted by all in the environment of Real Madrid, starting with the coach and following the players, who know that each game or each gesture can mean a change of scenario or a flood of criticism. They live outside of it, but that does not mean that it does not end up taking its toll. What seems clear in that last decade to which reference has been made, is that the decisions of the white club around the bench, usually arrive with the finished season.
“A coach always appears,” is heard in Valdebebas, in order to deny contacts with technical third parties in full season. It has happened with Allegri, Pochettino and others whose final destination has not been linked to that of Real Madrid, which I wait until June for decision -making, as has been demonstrated with Ancelotti, Lopetegui or Benítez, the last three to appear with the finished season.
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Since November 2023, the future of the Real Madrid bench, thus ambiguously, passes through Xabi Alonso. Even during the past season he led to say that he was already signed for the present year, comments that have been repeated in recent months, but reality says, as has happened in previous campaigns, that until the curtain goes down, there will be no decision on the future of the always complicated, position of coach of the white team.
Confidence in Ancelotti
As much exterior noise there is, it continues to trust Ancelotti’s work and in that knowing how to take advantage of the qualities of his players in the key moments. It is true that before Atlético de Madrid there is a lot of game and that in the end it will be the ball that determines the verdict, but as the Italian coach himself said, days ago, no one from Real Madrid has moved piece in any sense. In the end it will be the ball that determines the verdict, but as they told the Italian coach himself, no one from Real Madrid has moved piece in any sense.
They will sit, speak and decide what is most convenient for everyone, as they have done year after year. Trust is still the same on the first day. The wear passes everyone but from Valdebebas continues to think that the team cannot be in better hands.