Just two weeks ago, Arda Güler was holding at the lowest point of Carlo Ancelotti’s rotation, also surpassed by Endrick, which had the final half hour in the return against Arsenal while the Turk added another Champions League match from the barrier (it has not yet been released in these duels). “It is not unbalanced as the strikers, but it has a very beautiful ball handling. It has been useful,” said Carletto at the end of March after replacing him before the Leganés. It was not the first, the second or the third time that the coach slid a public puyita to the young man despite not being the usual style of Italian with his players. Nor was it the toughest he dedicated to him.
From those depths the left -hander has burst, suddenly turned into the last hope of Madrid in the League. Until this unexpected flourishing from the match in Getafe, neither Ancelotti had given him a lot of ball nor the footballer had claimed with the ball. Güler was in a shady barracks of Carletto’s compulsory military service, still under the effects of the last “stick” that the coach had thrown.
Everything is known in the Big Brother The football and even the Italian domains had come what he considered as maneuvers, comments and attempts at the player’s environment to try to influence his decisions due to the little weight Güler had in the alignments of Madrid. It was nothing punctual, but what he understood as a more general strategy of the people surrounding the attacker to create a certain climate in favor of the young man, a phenomenon in his country that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to congratulate him personally in the last Eurocup for a decisive goal to Georgia.
Those movements did not overlook for the Reggiolo coach and two and a half months ago, before the first leg of the cup semifinals, the Italian released the great stick. “I pass with them (young people) a small part of the time. He spends a lot of time with other people. I don’t know if those people have the same idea as me to learn. This is a lack of communication,” he said.
The episode served Carletto to remember one of those old football codes: to be indisputable in Madrid, before you have to “suck bench.” An expression that the Italian has repeated several times in reference to Güler (and Endrick) and with which, at times, it has been liked. A milli which has justified with the paths of Vinicius, Rodrygo or Valverde. “I threw a stick to their people and now I have to congratulate them because they have done a good job with him,” he said last Sunday after the third good performance followed by Güler. At the end of the last campaign, the Italian had already launched the first messages. “In the next games he will have the minutes he wants,” he said seriously after virtually closing the league. “Madrid asks me to win the games, not give minutes to the youngest,” said Alirón’s night.
Carletto’s Hawaiian shirt
From Getafe’s inflection point, he has scored two goals, has given two assists, and has been the Madrid player with more created occasions (three) in each of the three recent games (Getafe, Celta and Barça). His rebound started as interior in the Coliseum, where he also scored the goal of the white triumph. Carletto pointed at the beginning of the season that he was one of the options to try to organize the field without Kroos, however, until the turn of the last fortnight, nor had appeared there many times not even when he had done it he had taken the poor team. In Getafe, the Italian justified that the scheme (4-4-2) had harmed him because he fit better as an interior in a 4-3-3. And this Sunday, the coach also referred to the lack of physicist had penalized him.
Güler’s latest performances have underlined their great ease to produce (maximum team assistant fourth with nine), and have helped clarify the construction of the game, one of the team’s trunk problems.
Two days ago, the Turk referred to in The Players Tribune To his first contact with Ancelotti per video call before signing in 2023. “The moment was so surreal that it is hard for me to remember the details, but I think I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses and I think I had a cigar. He told me:“ Arda, you will have a great future here. Maybe not the first year, but you will have opportunities. When Modric and Kroos are too veteran, we could put yourself in the middle. ”Suddenly, in the spring of 2025, Güler has appeared.
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