The unappealable in Champions against Arsenal has left Carlo Ancelotti in a position of extreme weakness. The club takes a long time thinking and preparing its relay on the bench, and this season the sensation of the final cycle has been greater, according to the analysis of the dome, given the difficulties to find a convincing game that would squeeze the potential of its attackers. The moment in which the change of technician could be activated is something pending to decide.
Although those responsible are still tilting that we are before the last year of Ancelotti, from the dispatches of Valdebebas they have remembered in the last hours that two years ago it continued in office after having won only the Cup and after fitting a in the semifinals of the European Cup. In that case, however, the confirmation of its continuity occurred in a few hours, something that has not happened now.
The entity, which tries these days of lowering the tension around the Italian, points to the final coperes against Barcelona next Saturday in Seville, and the options to which they still grab the League (they receive Athletic; 21.00, Movistar). The aspirations in both competitions go through classic two (El Liguero, on Sunday, May 11 in Montjuïc).
As a mitigating in the evaluation of Ancelotti, the club appreciates, in addition to being the white coach with more titles (15), its ability to develop young talent; And he assumes that they have brought to the extreme the imbalances of the template, accentuated by the serious injuries. This summer, several signings are prepared, starting with the right side of Liverpool Trent Alexander-Arnold, already closed, according to sources known to the operation. In November, at the end of the match against Osasuna that he left, from Éder Militão, Ancelotti warned between racks the urgency of reinforcing to avoid a collapse, something that did not happen in the winter market.
“At the end of the season we will talk [con el club]”, He insisted this Saturday again and again Carletto, who did not want to extend more about his future despite the insistent questions, although he did not have never“ a confrontation with the president. ”His priority has always been Madrid, where he has a year of contract, and the city of Madrid.“ My departure date I will not decide in life, ”he said in January He would also expose how he sees the template and the operation of some departments that surround the first team.
Xabi Alonso, first applicant
In case of relief, the name that convinces the most is that of, Leverkusen coach. At the moment, neither parties have issued signs that an agreement has been closed. The white eccentrocampist answers with evasive questions about his future and in the German institution, according to a source close to the directive, they are not clear that they must seek a relay for Tolosarra. Three weeks ago, the sports director, Simon Rolfes, came to say that Alonso would continue. In Madrid they have ruled out that Jürgen Klopp lace in his model.
The novelty this campaign in the calendar of the Club World Cup, which stretches until mid -July, introduces another variable that alters the scenario in making this type of decisions. In any case, there are about 25 days between the end of the League (May 24-25) and the beginning of the American event (June 18, against Al Hilal), and in Madrid they have studied the option to go to the new tournament with a coach who is not Ancelotti. This Saturday, when Carletto was asked what he understood for “end of the season” to talk to the club, he avoided specifying whether he referred to the conclusion of the World Cup or the World Cup.
All Ancelotti faces
The football and commitment problems of the workforce, warned by Carletto himself from the premiere in the League, have weakened his figure despite the mitigating of the serious injuries, the absence of signings and that the team, at least until April, has avoided a total collapse. The discourse and face of the Italian in the 108 appearances that accumulates this season have been revealing the difficulties. In December, after overcoming a few weeks of great instability, he confessed that he had been and later admitted that he feared not eating the nougat.
The unstable trajectory of Madrid has been showing all possible faces of Carletto: he challenged players to convert the promises of more defensive involvement into facts; He resorted to his most joking facet with journalists to relax the atmosphere; He took out an unknown cutting side after the second win of Barcelona (“This is a press conference, not a debate”); and even claimed his date of birth. “Everyone likes youth. Sometimes, you get tired of veterans. That I think is happening to me a little. But veteran gives you an experience and knowledge that young people do not have. The experience cannot be bought or studying. After 40 years of football, I have understood something,” Ancelotti observed two months ago, whose position hits a thread.
