The boiler of the Madrid bench on Friday added another element, in case there were few. Two days after the final exam in the Liga de los Blancos, Xabi Alonso, the great favorite to happen to Carlo Ancelotti if the Italian finally signs the settlement with Florentino Pérez, said goodbye to the Bayer Leverkusen. Twenty-four hours after the announcement of the Basque, the ball fell on the roof of Carletto, which cleared it with the usual elegance and diligence: “I have read that she is going. He has done a fantastic job. He has all the doors open because he has proven to be one of the best coaches in the world,” said the white coach, who directed Tolosarra in the Bernabéu in the 2013-14 Ancelotti in Chamartín, that of the tenth Champions.
Reggiolo’s already made clear a week ago, after a day of a thunderous noise about his conversations with the Brazilian Federation, which would not talk about his future again until the league ends. His position has not changed, and less at the gates of the borderline in Montjuïc, but they had a small trap in the press room that, as usual, raffled without lifting the eyebrow. They told him that it was an open secret that there will be a change in the Madrid bench and that it seemed that this will be his last confrontation with the Barca team. “This is the last classic of the season because Barcelona does not make the Club World Cup,” he settled with Puyita included towards the Camp Nou.
For 10 days, the question about what will happen in the technical direction of Madrid has entered into public hibernation waiting for what happened this Sunday in Barcelona. At most, 15 days remain for everyone to know the decision, when the merengue team closes the championship against Real Sociedad. However, a defeat this Sunday would sentence the title (there would be seven points ahead of the Culés in the absence of nine to play) and, perhaps, it would accelerate decision making in the merengue dome and its communication without the need to complete the 38 league days. But a white victory would throw a new stage. “If we win, the League opens and everything can happen in these three games,” said Ancelotti, which faces a point of no return.
He has always maintained that his “honeymoon” with Madrid, a very his expression, has not declined since he signed in the summer of 2021, when he called the club to ask for players for Everton, where he was then, and took advantage of Zinedine Zidane’s departure to run. “They fell into the trap,” he joked in December, after overcoming one of the many troubles of this season. This Saturday he continued talking about idyll with the entity, although in his speech, nuances that point to a probable goodbye appeared. “If the honeymoon is over as a coach, I do not know. But the honeymoon continues, with Madrid it will be for a lifetime. As in all relationships, at first there is a lot Here, ”Carletto developed, which appeared in the Valdebebas press room with a relaxed smile, unlike other moments when he had to account for his future.
Before getting up to direct the last training prior to the classic, he sent a message to his players about one of the possible keys to the duel. “You can harm the transitions because the line (defensive of Barcelona) is very high. You have to be attentive to the offside. All these things I have spoken with the players and we have worked them. If they listen to me, it will go well,” Carletto concluded in the previous one of a clash that will mark the agenda of the club next week and the decisions that can be taken for the bench.
