Carlo Ancelotti has a contract with Real Madrid until June 30, 2026. However, the elimination in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Arsenal, along with what happens in the final of the Copa del Rey and in the seven games that remain from the league, could precipitate the end of its second stage.
Yes indeed, The Club World Cup marks a calendar problem. The new competition promoted by FIFA will be played in the United States from June 14 to July 13, disrupting the usual club football calendar, whose contracts usually have in Europe on June 30 as the final date. And it now coincides with half of the tournament.
A future problem for a Real Madrid that has several cracks in the present. And one of them is in the coach post. The doubts and criticisms around the figure of Carlo Ancelotti has increased after falling to Arsenal. For the result (1-5 in the global) and by the inferiority manifests with respect to its rival.
With Arreones, but without football. This is how the white team tried the approach of the 3-0 of the first leg in London. The result, 1-2 of the Arsenal in the Santiago Bernabéu, without suffering at any time the rush of a lost Real Madrid.
Without a defined plan to overcome those of Mikel Arteta, the centers -36, record, with 16% that they found a recipient, but no occasion generated – became an inoperative resource of a Real Madrid that did not find the formula.
In addition, from the beginning, Carlo Ancelotti repeated 4-3-3 in attack and attempt of 4-4-2 in defense -with Rodrygo and Bellingham as extremes- that did not work in other large parties, for the low defensive commitment and balance that the Italian demands so much.
“Compared to last year, there has been a bit of collective attitude,” He explained ‘Carletto’ after falling in the Champions League.
A “collective attitude” that has requested on numerous occasions to its players in their appearances before the media, but this year has not found the recipe.
Six defeats in the Champions League, Club record in the competition, Before Lille, Milan, Liverpool, Atlético de Madrid and Arsenal twice that bind to the two goals suffered in the matches against FC Barcelona.
0-4 in the League and 2-5 in the Spanish Super Cup; This last result could be even greater, but the expulsion of the Polish Wojciech Szczesny in the 56th minute, already with 1-5, stopped the Barca gale in a match that started with Kylian Mbappé’s goal.
Without competing at the level required in large matches, without finding the formula to attach Mbappé in the team and repeating approach errors in large matches.
And this points to Ancelotti as the weak link in search of a change for the next season.
The Italian said, in addition to “no” would change anything from the tie against Arsenal, which “does not” knows or “wants” if it was his last match as coach of Real Madrid in the Champions League.
“I can’t talk about this now,” I know if it’s your last season. “I don’t know if it’s my last game in the Champions; it can happen if the club decides to change. It can be this year or next when my contract ends,” he said at a press conference.
“There is no problem; the day I finish here I can only thank the club. It can be tomorrow or in years; All I am going to do is thank the club. If the contract ends or not, it gives me exactly the same, “he added.
A possible output of the club that was a regular issue after elimination. Of course, although after falling in Champions rooms it seems bound to your goodbye, it will mark the duels against FC Barcelona, against which it has conceded nine goals in two games.
First, in the final of the Copa del Rey on April 26, with another title at stake. And also in the fight to win LaLiga in which he is four points from the Barca team, with a pending duel at the Lluís Companys Olympic stadium.
Two titles still at stake that could change the current panorama of pessimism regarding their continuity, while The name of Xabi Alonso, former Madrid player And current Bayer Leverkusen coach, goes back to the arena.