Real Madrid: Florentino leads the reconstruction after Madrid’s ‘annus horribilis’

It has been a complicated campaign for Real Madrid which closes with a negative balance for an entity used to adding titles and that he has seen how the first football and basketball teams (Supercopa de Espaa) have become almost blank.

Reconstruction is already underway. Midway through the season that is about to end, Real Madrid leaders were already clear that the changes they had to come, even though some of them were traumatic. They wanted change of habits, modifications in the routine that was being carried out in recent years and that caused tense situations and relaxation at certain times in certain players.

Necessary changes

First it was the goodbye of Zidane and then that of Sergio Ramos, the other great bastion of the first team of white football in recent years. The departure of the technician and the captain stages the club’s commitment to a swerve that puts the team back on the road to success. It is true that the arrival of Carlo Ancelotti It may be a guide to the past, but with the Italian what has been sought is a return to simplicity within the rigor of a respected coach.

Florentino Prez went to work weeks ago and all his movements They are oriented to inspire Madridismo after a very tough and complicated season. He knows that much of that illusion passes through the arrival of a differential player named Kylian Mbapp. For this he works. Slowly but surely.

The start of the 20-21 course was already complicated by the situation caused by the pandemic. Zidane I decided not to have players like Bale, James or Ceballos, being Odegaard the only new face of a team that has gone blank eleven years later. There were no signings due to the need to cut expenses and the team went through difficulties.

The absence of new players and the low motivation of the workforce In the first months of the year, it caused doubts at the start, so many that the Real Madrid suffered in the group stage despite finishing first. Zidane’s men saved the ballot, but the doubts were already installed, especially due to the many casualties that were taking place week after week and that have led to the return of Antonio Pintus to the Madrid team.

A delayed reaction

2021 began with the estrangement with Ramos and the fall of the performance of the team with elimination in Super Cup and Cup in a sad month of January. Zidane raised his voice in the press room for the attacks it receives from all fronts. His shout took effect and the team fought for League and Champions until the last moment, but without giving any joy to the museum that was waiting for new trophies.

In basketball, the year has closed almost the same (the Super Cup was won), but the difference is that Pablo Laso received all the confidence with a contract renewal. As with soccer, injuries have haunted the players.