Shagging someone else’s wife probably.
WTAF?
lol just checked the CV result. I was keeping an eye on it last night but fell asleep at 0-0.
Blue Moooooooooooooon
Game was wild. He’d already sent off one Real player with 2 yellows in about 30 seconds and then right before the end of the game with it still at 1-0 he got upset at Real’s reaction to him not allowing them to take a quick free kick in their own half and started Oprahing the entire Real team and bench with yellow cards
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I tend to read the other way around - Alonso loves Liverpool so much that he could never do anything to hurt them. His two Anfield losses testify to that.
Joking aside, I think he’s the most astute/cunning man in football. He planned taking over at Real Madrid for long enough. If he doesn’t succeed there, it won’t be the end of him, I’m sure he’ll bounce back. If he does get sacked, the spotlight on Slot will intensify, I’m sure of that.
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The least surprising scenario is to stick with Slot until Alonso becomes available. Sort of what happened with Klopp and Rodgers.
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The problem with that is where the hell will we be come the end of the season? We could seriously be 10 - 15th place on current form! At least when a new man comes in it often gives the team a lift for a while and a new energy.
According to this, the problems he’s having with the RM players stem from him wanting them to “press with aggression, attack with the impact of adrumbeat, and have players stepping up with the personality and sharpness of an electric guitar riff.” Apparently, he said when arrived that this is the return of rock 'n roll. Sounds a bit familiar doesn’t it?
Also, there’s this:
When he arrived at Bayer Leverkusen, Alonso asked to be released if any of the clubs he had played for came calling, provided he felt like taking the job.
He added one more team to that list - Manchester City, as Pep’s eventual replacement. Now it could be Pep who leaves him without a job.
So, maybe we should give him a call?
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If the owners get to the point where they let Slot go, I would be very happy to land Alonso. The joy will be even greater if Man City want him and he comes here.
I just want to point out a certain irony, though, if I may. Given the fuss around the Salah situation, Slot is perceived by some as not being able to handle big egos. This same accusation is being put to Alonso, who is on thin ice at Real Madrid because one or two big stars won’t work for him either, and it is undermining what he is wanting to build.
The reasons you mention is the issue with Madrid too much player power, the last thing we want happening to our club and that is why what Mo has done is wrong, we don’t conduct our business through the media.
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I wouldn’t mind Xabi, at the start of next season or in 2027.
Maybe Arne will turn it around by January ans stay another year.
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I don’t think I could take seeing our Xabi managing Man Cheaty!!!
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He certainly doesn’t have form for disappointing LFC fans.
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Looks like it’s going to be a tough match for Xabi. Latest is that Mbappé did not train due to “discomfort”, so was Camavinga. Plus TAA, Carvajal, Militao, Mendy, Alaba, and Huijsen are all out.
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Am I missing something with why Alonso would consider managing Manchester City in the future besides the money? (according to Balague, so it may be nonsense).
Salah compared to Vinicius is a choir boy and as a club in general, we seem a far better match to Alonso’s temperament than Real Madrid.
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Xabi Alonso feels isolated, and his players are taking advantage of his vulnerability. He has recently become a political figure, attempting to win over the dressing room by offering concessions: shorter video sessions, untouchable stars, more days off, fewer tactical obligations.
In these 6 months of the Alonso era, the Real Madrid dressing room has not meshed well with him. He arrived to raise the bar, both in training and matches; to impose discipline and order in a dressing room that was spoiled and toxic; and to modernize the team’s style of play. As the weeks went by, the players grew increasingly frustrated with his tactical demands, high press, advanced defensive line, endless video sessions, and limited rest days. And Alonso, knowing he was losing the dressing room, gradually gave in, eventually offering them his full support, his arm, and whatever else they asked for.
The latest example is recent. The before and after the victory at San Mamés demonstrates the power of the dressing room. Traveling on Tuesday instead of Wednesday angered a good number of the players, and after the win against Athletic, Alonso granted them two days off, when only one had been planned. So the preparation for the match against Celta included only one training session, on Saturday. This is just one example of the many that have occurred since the Vinicius case erupted.
Until then, Alonso didn’t really know what it meant to coach Real Madrid. And that’s despite being a player for five years, and having witnessed how a coach like Mourinho lost the support of a large majority of his players when things started to go wrong. Now Alonso himself is experiencing firsthand the influence players have at Real Madrid, but he doesn’t understand why he was brought in if, at the first sign of trouble, the club looked the other way, as happened with Vinicius. That’s when Xabi understood that he had to manage 25 egos and put his coaching role aside. The beginning of the end.
Alonso believed that coaching on his knees would boost the dressing room, but usually, it’s quite the opposite. Everything that has happened in recent weeks has paved the way for what seems imminent: his dismissal.
Credit: kibme37 on reddit r/soccer
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What a bunch of spoilt brats!!
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Real is unmanageable. The players were complaining about being over worked so he rewarded them with an extra day off after beating Bilbao in mid week and then got faced with a barrage of criticisms for leaving them under prepared for the Celta game.
It reminds me of Rafa’s time there. He started picking a young relatively unknown DM to give the team more balance, but came at the expense of leaving fan favourite creative players on the bench. The pressure kept mounting so when the Barca came he gave the fans the team they said they wanted with all the attackers and they got thrashed. Rafa used it as a “now you let me do it my way, yes?” tactic, but got sacked pretty much immediately.
He was then replaced with Zidane who made that unknown unfancied DM a cornerstone of his side without fielding the same criticism of Rafa for doing it. The DM in question - a young Casamiro.
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