Real Madrid is falling apart: low reputation and little football

Champions of the Champions League and the League. A renovated Santiago Bernabéu, erected by many as the best stadium in the world. And to top it all off, Kylian Mbappé, theoretically the best player in the world. Real Madrid faced the season with all the ingredients to sweep it, as they proclaimed from the Spanish capital, but reality is hitting Florentino Pérez’s pharaonic project from all sides.

The defeat against Milan, the second in a row after the defeat received by Barça, ended up setting off all the alarm signals in a club where fires have multiplied in recent months, both on the field and in the offices. The arguments spread by the Chamartín entity, often without foundation, no longer allow us to cover up a crisis that is real. In the absence of explanations from their president, who has not spoken since last season, the Madrid fans must settle for the diplomatic words of Emilio Butragueño. “We are not in a great moment,” acknowledged the club’s director of institutional relations after losing to Morata’s team.

Second debacle in a row after Barça’s win

The defeat against Milan ended up setting off all the alarms in a club where fires have multiplied in recent months

The players don’t spend much time either, only in front of the microphone when the television stations with rights obligate them by contract. Vinícius, perhaps the team’s greatest reference, has not voluntarily made statements this season, and Mbappé also maintains a secondary profile, far from being the leader that the merengue parish demands.

The ridiculous sit-in for the Ballon d’Or, in principle to defend Vinícius after losing the award, and the neighborhood complaint about the noise generated at the now suspended concerts at the Bernabéu would have remained in the background, probably forgotten, if the ball came in, always the great remedy for almost all ills in football. But the problem is that the sports results are not consistent, quite the opposite.

The whistles of the Bernabéu fans in front of the rossoneriwho were not the first this campaign, are the unequivocal symptom that the white team is not working. This Real Madrid with practically no Spaniards is a disjointed team that doesn’t know what it’s playing. The defense is a drama, uncoordinated and unfocused. The midfield is incapable of governing any game, all muscle but without any player to give meaning to the game, except for the veteran Modric. The team misses Kroos. And up front, despite the surplus of stars, each one makes war on his own.

Vinícius lives in flashes, often entangled in arguments that he himself fuels against rivals, opposing fans or referees, who tend to be permissive with his defiant attitude. “You’re crazy,” the striker told the referee against Milan, one more example of the inappropriate behavior that probably made him lose the Ballon d’Or. The Brazilian has also won the pulse of Mbappé, the signing, on the left wing. most anticipated by Madrid, at least for seven years, which has been relegated to the center of the attack, a position where the Frenchman significantly lowers his performance, far from the best in the world.

Without midfield and Bellingham missing

Vinícius, often entangled in arguments, has gained the upper hand on the left wing over Mbappé, relegated to a minor role in the center of the attack

Bondy’s role has also had an impact on Bellingham’s role, worn out in defensive tasks and a shadow of the player who dazzled last season. Meanwhile, Rodrygo, Endrick or Arda Güler, especially the last two, are permanent fixtures on the bench. The Brazilian pearl has not played since September and the Turk has only played in added time against Dortmund in the last month.

As usually happens in these cases where nothing works, the blame has been turned against the coach. Carlo Ancelotti, also the best in the world for the Madrid entourage and for France Football last season, despite not collecting the award in Paris, is once again highlighted months after having been the architect of winning the Champions League and the League. “We have to be worried, the team is not giving a good version,” said the Italian after the duel against his former team.

Real Madrid’s image is bad on the field and it is no better off the pitch. The club was awarded as the best of the previous year by France Football, but the Madrid leaders were very far from honoring that distinction with their absence from the Ballon d’Or, an incomprehensible decision, given the size of the white entity, which was criticized by the international press, also by the Spanish press. Only a few, without any informative rigor, bought the argument of the fight against UEFA, spread from the bowels of the white leadership, as a reason for the rudeness.

Neighborhood complaint

Florentino Pérez, who seemed untouchable, defined as a “superior being” by Butragueño, has had to back down with his Bernabéu project

Outside of the sporting arena, the residents of Chamartín have said enough about Florentino Pérez’s intentions with the renovation of the Bernabéu. The president of Madrid, who seemed untouchable, defined as a “superior being” by Butragueño, has had to back down with his ambitious and tight program of concerts that the stadium was going to host, the economic panacea for the club. After the joint complaint of several residents in the area, the club was forced to suspend all musical events on the premises, at least until March, as it exceeded the decibels allowed by municipal regulations.

Also at the request of the neighbors, the courts have paralyzed, by questioning the public interest nature of the reforms, the construction of parking lots on the outskirts of the field and a tunnel in the adjacent streets. The club’s judicial problems are completed with the alleged false passport of its former basketball player Marcus Slaughter, which could mean the loss of the League and Cup won in the 2014-15 season. To make matters worse, Madrid has to see how its eternal rival, Barça, leads the League and once again fascinates Europe with its game.