Real Madrid did not win a single trophy final 12 months, nevertheless it entered the 2025-26 season with excessive hopes. It employed one of many world’s finest younger coaches, former Madrid participant Xabi Alonso, to information it out of the mire. It assembled a real Galactico-style lineup of superstars, from World Cup winners like France’s Kylian Mbappé to hyped younger abilities like Turkiye’s Arda Guler. It had the intelligence, the expertise and the funds to elbow its means again into Europe’s finest.
With simply three video games remaining within the 2025-26 season, although, these hopes have been properly and actually dashed. Alonso was unceremoniously fired after a string of poor (however comprehensible) outcomes; his substitute, fellow ex-player Alvaro Arbeloa, has been an unmitigated catastrophe. Studies hold rising of Madrid’s gamers being unwilling to work with coaches and solely fascinated about themselves. The crew fell far behind its rival Barcelona within the Spanish league and received ousted from the Champions League within the quarterfinals, setting itself up for a second straight 12 months with zero trophies.
The membership entered the week of Might 4, then, in a cloud of discontent. That cloud shortly proved to be a storm as humiliation after humiliation befell Madrid in fast succession.
A lacking celebrity
Mbappé has been MIA for Madrid since injuring his hamstring towards Actual Betis in April. On its face, that is no disaster; accidents are irritating however widespread, and nobody desires Mbappé to place himself at risk of lacking the World Cup this summer time. Nobody in Madrid would begrudge him the remainder if he have been resting out of the limelight.
He is not. Mbappé has spent nearly all of his restoration time on a really public vacation in Italy, and that is rubbed many within the Madrid orbit the fallacious means. A bunch of Madrid followers launched a petition to oust Mbappé from the membership for his carelessness…and that petition amassed over a million signatures.
A coaching floor bust-up
With Madrid’s de facto chief out on trip, issues fell aside between the remainder of the gamers.
Reports emerged of mistrust between the Madrid gamers and coach Arbeloa. These stories have been clearly leaked from somebody inside the dressing room, and so they led to a wild inner witch hunt. Issues culminated in a near-unbelievable battle between midfielders Fede Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni. Valverde was sure that Tchouameni was the mole; Tchouameni was adamant that he had nothing to do with it. The 2 fought till Tchouameni punched Valverde so onerous that he fell over, cracked his head on a bit of dressing room furnishings and left the coaching floor in a wheelchair, complaining of momentary amnesia.
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