Actual shouldn’t have a supervisor for subsequent season.
Arbeloa has bought a yr left in his contract however it’s clear that chairman Perez is wanting elsewhere for a brand new boss.
Though Perez appreciates the positives of Arbeloa’s tenure, outcomes dictate choices on the Bernabeu.
However to know who they’ll rent, you first want to know how Perez thinks.
Perez doesn’t care about model of play. He doesn’t lose sleep over tactical identification or whether or not his workforce presses excessive or sits deep. What he cares about is profitable, and greater than that, managing.
Managing egos, stars, the dressing room.
For Perez, the perfect supervisor is a conductor.
There’s a recurring rigidity on the Bernabeu between two faculties of thought. On one facet, the quantity two on the membership Jose Angel Sanchez argues that Actual want an organiser, a tactically rigorous coach who can impose order on a proficient however chaotic squad.
That line of pondering has produced appointments corresponding to Rafa Benitez, Julen Lopetegui and, most not too long ago, Alonso. None of them lasted various months. The president was by no means actually behind them, and when outcomes gave him the excuse, they have been gone.
On the opposite facet sits Perez’s personal choice: the grand supervisor, the aristocrat of the touchline, somebody whose presence alone instructions respect within the dressing room. Assume Zinedine Zidane. Assume Carlo Ancelotti, twice. That’s the template Perez returns to when his endurance runs out.
With Alonso gone, the president’s line has gained once more. And the names being thought-about replicate precisely that.
Now to the identify that has been producing headlines – Jose Mourinho.
Individuals contained in the membership counsel he’s not essentially the one identify on the listing. The Mourinho choice is pushed principally by Perez himself… and by the Portuguese supervisor.
Perez likes to throw concepts on the market and see what response they get.
Mourinho is underneath contract with Benfica till 2027 however can come out of it, and no matter he says publicly, my understanding is that he’s determined to return to the Bernabeu.
His behaviour through the Gianluca Prestianni affair within the Benfica-Actual Madrid Champions League encounter didn’t lose him followers on the Bernabeu, together with the president.
It’s the final wildcard – the president reaching for a reputation he is aware of, a determine who can dominate a dressing room, a supervisor whose second spell in Madrid could be already a press release.
Nonetheless, sources contained in the camp say, it might solely occur if the opposite choices fall by way of.
