In a club like the Real Madrid neither the duel nor the transitions are consent. To dead king, king. From the Italian monarch to Basque, the entity that presides over Florentino Pérez announced this Sunday that Xabi Alonso will be his new coach Since June 1 and for the next three seasons. Less than 24 hours after Carlo Ancelotti lived his emotional tribute at Santiago Bernabéu, The Xabi Alonso era officially starts at Real Madrid. This Monday, starting at 12.30 pm, will be presented in Valdebebas.
A change of guard that comes with The template starting a few days on vacationbut with the machinery still underway, because the Club World Cup awaits around the corner. Real Madrid will debut on June 18, in front of the Saudi Hilal, and by then Alonso will have already had to familiarize himself with his new template. Because the club, after a five years as a player (2009-14), knows him over.
With Huijsen And more?
Xabi Alonso's work is expected with the template in Valdebebas starting from day 1. There will be there Dean Huijsenthe only signing confirmed so far, and works so that Liverpool allows to anticipate the arrival of Trent Alexander-Arnoldagreed for July 1, when English ends contract. Real Madrid also intensifies negotiations to incorporate a left side as soon as possible, with Álvaro Carreras at most favorite and Alejandro Grimaldo In the bedroom. The signing of a midfielder, if produced, seems to have to wait, as well as the possible march of Rodrygo.
Xabi Alonso, in 2014, on the day of his farewell as a Real Madrid player. / DANI Pozo / AFP
With those tools, and even with Modric y Lucas VázquezXabi Alonso returns to Real Madrid 11 years after his march as a player, heading to Bayern. A return that already put on the table in the spring of 2024, but that ended up applauding a year. As the newspaper has been reporting since January, Alonso and Madrid reached a Knight pact whereby the Tolosarra would arrive at Bernabéu if the Ancelotti stage was closed.
The operation accelerated after The elimination in Champions in front of Arsenalwhich coincided with the renewed interest of Brazil for turning Carlo Ancelotti into his new coach. The times, not without difficulties and tensions, have ended up fitting, with 'Carletto' towards the other side of the Atlantic to offer this Monday its first call and Alonso assuming the reins of Madrid for the World Cup in Clubs, discarding The alternative that Santiago Solari acts as a transition technician.
Madrid, Donostia, Leverkusen, Madrid
Xabi Alonso's challenge is, above all, recover the winning inertia that Madrid has thrown overboard for a season to forget. A new goal in a race on the benches that until now recorded experiences in the white quarry, in the subsidiary of the Royal Society and, the last three years, in a Bayer Leverkusen who a week ago dismissed him with a club legend. It is not for less: with him at the controls, he achieved last season the first Bundesliga in his history. Now, It has to succeed at Real Madrid.