Real Madrid Firing Alonso Would Be Easy. Replacing Him? Much Harder

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We'd better not fool ourselves. Xabi Alonso isn't going to be spending Christmas on the Real Madrid bench because he's going to be sacked. The man from Tolosa is out, even though a couple of flashes of brilliance and barely twenty minutes of good football were enough for Los Blancos to beat Alavés this Sunday. The Real Madrid coach is like a Simago chicken, he looks really unwell. Read more

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The director general of Bayer Leverkusen, Fernando Carro, has criticized Real Madrid for the treatment his former coach has received in the Spanish club, with rumors of dismissal if the team loses again. Alonso, a former Real Madrid player between 2009 and 2014, became coach of Bayer Leverkusen and won the Bundesliga and the German Cup in 2023/24 with a perfect record of 28 wins, 6 draws and no defeats. He arrived at Real Madrid in June 2025, as…

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Real Madrid's victory over the Alavés lawn gave Xabi Alonso a breath of oxygen but his future still holds only on a wire. The ultimatum had been placed before the trip to Alavés and the success granted an additional suspension to Xabi Alonso. However, if the team returned to Madrid with [...]

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Xabi Alonso continues to play it in Real Madrid. The tolosarra technician is under examination, and from Bayer Leverkusen they pronounce with respect to his future: "The door is open.