🚨 With Xabi Alonso, some players pretended to FALL ASLEEP during tactical sessions.
Some Real Madrid players OPENLY DISRESPECTED Xabi Alonso:
✓ Whispering between themselves while he spoke
✓ Pretending to fall asleep while he explained tactics
This REALLY bothered players who were LOYAL to Xabi, including TCHOUAMENI.
Tchouaméni, and some other players, SUPPORTED Xabi Alonso's ideas as they believed the team needed a profound change in their style of play.
Real Madrid's dressing room began DETERIORATING in OCTOBER.
It was then that several KEY players, including Vini Jr & Fede Valverde started OPENLY showing their discontent with Xabi Alonso's training methods.
They criticized his constant video analysis, his tactical intensity and his rigid methodology.
However, the players who were loyal to Xabi believed this was only a PRETEXT to attack Xabi for Vini's main source of frustration: being constantly subbed out or benched.
When Xabi was fired, MANY players couldn't understand why a portion of the squad SABOTAGED a project that had just begun. This was especially true for players who did believe in Xabi Alonso's ideas—Tchouaméni was one of them—and who felt the team needed time to adapt to a much more tactical and demanding approach
[Marca]
Xabi olisi tarvinnut tässä tukea seuralta ja kapteenistolta, mutta hän olisi saattanut selvitä, jos olisi antanut Vinille vähän enemmän siimaa ja aikaa sopeutua vaikkakin Vini taisi loppuun asti pelata omaa peliään ja jätti valmentajan toiveet toteuttamatta.