Kung_Fu_ZizouTue, December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM UTC·2 min read
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We are fast approaching the halfway point of the season and there seems to be very little Xabi can do to get his team doing what he wants or at least becoming more efficient. The team looks different but remains largely the same. In the game against Girona we were particularly ineffective in transition which was rather strange. Transition football is as easy as breathing for our players but this season even that seems to be disappearing.
Xabi has to find some solutions quickly.
There seems to be a lack of control and composure about Xabi’s Real Madrid. The fragility of the side is palpable. The players themselves have no shortage of talent or self-belief but they seem to not understand what is being asked of them by the man in the dugout.
The line-ups are not the issue. The principles are the key. Unfortunately, the players have no idea what those principles are in practice. They’ve repeated them like wedding vows from someone thrice divorced. The point is this.. Xabi and his players can say anything and everything and none of it matters because football is XI v XI on the football pitch, not in a press conference or post-game or magazine interview.
I do not look forward to watching my team anymore. After Carlo I was prepared for growing pain, not torture.
The team is going through a bad run of form. The uncertainty keeps growing. Xabi can turn this around but he has to get stuck in and focus on winning. That’s what Real Madrid responds to more than anything. The ability to get results. If the approach is not getting results, then nobody’s going to back it, not even the kitman and let alone Flo and JAS.. Needless to say, the players themselves are not seeing the fruits of this approach. The manager can ask the players to follow instructions but the players need to see the expected outcomes even the negatives, if the manager merely expects trust without clarity, the players will not be able to take positives from poor results. They need to know what’s not working and why.
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