League of Champions – Real Madrid

Fifteen trophies including three Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti has marked the history of Real Madrid in gigantic proportions. Back to business in 2021, the Italian technician undoubtedly experienced his last European match with the Merengue this Wednesday against Arsenal. The pitiful elimination in the quarterfinals undoubtedly sounds the end of her glorious era in Madrid.

While his future already seemed to be very vague, an uncertainty that he has been maintaining for several months, the Spanish press is categorical this Thursday: Ancelotti will no longer be Madrid next year. The only question is now whether he will leave before or after the Club World Cup in June.

According to Sport, two profiles stand out quite clearly: Xabi Alonso and Jürgen Klopp, two men whose names have been circulating in Madrid for a few years already. The first, former master to play from Real where he won everything, became a successful coach in Germany where he heads Bayer Leverkusen. He presents the perfect robot portrait of the future Real coach. Xabi Alonso, who shone under the orders of Ancelotti in Real or Bayern, ended the hegemony of Bayern in Germany and enchanted Europe last season. Today, Leverkusen does not want to hear about a departure but knows that it is very difficult to resist the call of Real.

“I would have been happier if Real Madrid had won hands down and the coach position was set in Madrid“, declared last week Fernando Carro, the boss of Bayer Leverkusen, after the slap received by Real against Arsenal (3-0). If he has a year of contract, Xabi Alonso remains today the big favorite for the succession of Ancelotti.

The other option, advanced by Sport, leads to Jürgen Klopp. Klopp has been linked to Real Madrid for years. Whenever the head of a Real coach is priced, which happens much more often in Madrid than elsewhere, Klopp was an option. According to his entourage, quoted by the Brazilian press, the former idol of Liverpool would already want to return to a bench while his role as director within the Red Bull group would not give him satisfaction. Sport believes that the relatives of Florentino Perez, seduced by the experience and charisma of Klopp, would grow in its sense. The only certainty is that you will have to have wide shoulders to replace Carlo Ancelotti on the Real bench.