Champions League – “I don't care” to leave Real Madrid, explains Carlo Ancelotti after elimination against Arsenal

Did this elimination in the Champions League quarter-finals against Arsenal have signed the end of the Ancelotti era? Real Madrid underwent its 12th defeat of the season on Wednesday against Arsenal (1-2, 1-5 accumulated), when it had conceded only two on the whole of the previous campaign. “”It is possible that the club decides to change (coach), whether this year or the following, when my contract will expire, there is no problem“, told the Ancelotti press, in post since 2021, after a first passage between 2013 and 2015.

Seven days from the term of the Liga, the Madrid club is on four points from its great rival of FC Barcelona. “”The day I go from here, I can only thank the club. It could be tomorrow, in 10 days, in a month or in a year, but all I can do is thank the club, whether my contract ends or not, I don't care“said the 65 -year -old technician, who notably won two Spanish championships and three Champions Leagues with the” White House “.

Recurrent rumors in recent months have reported in the event of early departure from Ancelotti of an interest in Real leaders for the Bayer Leverkusen coach, Xabi Alonso, who played for the Merengue, and for the former manager of Liverpool, the German Jürgen Klopp. Ancelotti, whose name has often been quoted to take the lead in the Brazilian selection for the 2012 World Cup, reminded him that his team was still in the running for the Liga, the King Cup then the Club World Cup this summer.

“The team gave everything in terms of attitude, but we could not do it“, Used the former coach of Chelsea, Bayern and PSG after Wednesday's defeat.”To be honest, Arsenal defended very well, we had trouble finding spaces, in terms of intensity we were better but that was not enoughi”.