As soon as he fit into the semifinals of the Club World Cup, Xabi Alonso’s first reaction was to divide the win of the win. The tournament and the Parisian corrective, said the coach, had been the end of the season, of which he only was part of the last month, and the summer the accountant would get to zero. “To zero,” he insisted with emphasis. The message repeated it up to four times in 13 minutes of appearance in an attempt to take air.
He, matches and coexistence had shown some advances in Madrid, with high pressure sections, energy and more together, but the European champion returned him to the. That afternoon of New Jersey confirmed, if necessary, that Alonso has a job of fine surgery and background decisions. Except for the certainty of Courtois, all the lines force a deep intervention, of diverse kinds, to rebuild a set that a year ago was announced inabordable and soon revealed in the ceiling. The preseason started on Monday, just two weeks from the premiere against Osasuna at home, on Tuesday, and prior to Austria to firm with the modest WSG Tirol (day 12, 19.00).
Regarding the closure of last year 26 days ago, the left -handed side, the recovered Camavinga, were incorporated on the 14th, Franco Mastantuono will do (when he turns 18), and they were not due to Endrick injury (he has about a month), Bellingham (about two after operating his left shoulder) and Mendy (next to return, according to the club). Nor did those dismissed with Honors and Lucas Vázquez, two exits that delve into the loss of veterans and leaders of which Carlo Ancelotti alerted several times.
The immediacy of the Club World Cup, where Xabi Alonso had to act “with a knife” for a title, converted training into a preparation of matches on the march rather than a job. The small print of its libretto begins now, above all, in the center of the countryside and the front, the two molers of Madrid that they have given it.
The core that did not spin passes with Carletto, except for the flashes of Modric and a couple of months of, is the same that will have to manage Tolosarra, who dig in the World Cup the route of, a young man with good foot but little physical and experience in the machine room for which Alonso has claimed patience, understanding and accompaniment. He did not find or land another solution for a plot with few creative lights.
“The template is closed in terms of arrivals,” they said a few days ago from the sports city. The technician had slipped after the PSG the possibility of signings, although without specifying positions. “We are open to improve, there are margin,” he said. And the only one that has appeared is races, whose acquisition was almost for discontinated before the new tournament.
It has been the most active market of whites (186 million at -63.2-, -62.5-, races -50- and -10-) since the 330 million in 2019, also after another campaign in Barrena; But the investment this time has gone to finalize the rear, without touching, at least for the moment, a center of the field with obvious creative difficulties.
From Valdebebas they point out that the arrivals market is closed. They take out the outputs. Above, the shadow of the doubt about Rodrygo’s continuity, which has barely played 92 minutes since the Cup final, does not disappear. Waiting for what happens with the Brazilian, the real impact of Mastantuono and on the prowl, the great knot that Alonso must unravel in the front is the Vinicius mixture-, little synchronized between them and rarely collaborative in the defensive work of the team, via the bankruptcy of the bankruptcy of Madrid. The two agreed only on one occasion for the beginning in the United States and it was in 4-0, with evils similar to the win against Barça (0-4 and 2-5), Arsenal (3-0) and Milan (1-3). Vini, whose renewal has been stuck (has a contract until 2027), was relieved at the closure of the Club World Cup in 65, the earliest replacement for him of the course.
If on the average you have to relieve creative precariousness and in the attack managing the egos, the great tangible progress is the amount of defenses available after the club signed two of the three most expensive in its history (Huijsen and races), plus Alexander-Arnold; and recover from the start Ay Militão, although the real level of these two after their serious injuries is in quarantine. Behind, it will not be by quantity, but by performance. The technician will also depend on how many times he resorts to the three centrals, his usual scheme in the Leverkusen.
Madrid comes from the season with more games of his life (68), according to the historic page Bdfútdragging the feet that place Xabi Alonso before a work stack and the need for rapid improvements. From the World Cup and the unfortunate encounter against the PSG, it came loaded with information of what is there and where it starts. Now it’s time to intervene thoroughly.
