Xabi Alonso went undefeated for Bayer Leverkusen to finally capture the title for a Bundesliga side known for always coming up short, but the former Real Madrid center midfielder couldn't replicate that same success two seasons later at the helm of Los Blancos. Not that anyone expected Alonso to go undefeated, but with a team of superstars, there was hope that more modern - and even supposedly more tactical - coach could build on what Carlo Ancelotti did and win trophies for the Merengues once more.
Instead, Real Madrid, despite what revisionist history will tell you, were terrible under Alonso. They could barely beat the worst teams in the league, and in just about every game, they were second best. Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, and Manchester City all mortified Alonso, who looked as out of his depth in those matches as he did when Gian Piero Gasperini handed him a humbling in his undefeated season with a 3-0 in the Europa League Final.
But the biggest problem with Xabi Alonso was his man management. The former Real Madrid player did not ooze Madridismo in the slightest. He was a charisma vaccuum who played favorites, cowtowed to Kylian Mbappe but jerked around the established Champions League winners in a bizarre power play, and his treatment of Endrick, in particular, was abhorrent, sending the promising talent packing as if he were the gum stuck to his Cavalli shoes.
Real Madrid will listen to Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho is slated to be the next manager at Real Madrid, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes the next Merengue manager, at the behest of president Florentino Perez. The Presi has Mourinho atop his list with no other peers because he knows he can get Madrid back on track after consecutive trophyless seasons, and he also knows that Mourinho has the charisma and strength to deal with a locker room of superstars.
He is an accomplished, legendary manager who has accomplished feats few others have: putting Chelsea on the map, setting the La Liga points record, winning European trophies for Roma, capturing the treble for Inter Milan, and obviously taking home the Champions League with FC Porto to kick it all off.
The Real Madrid stars are going to listen to him. Unlike Alonso, Mourinho has decades of experience at the elite level coaching the biggest stars ever like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ronaldo Nazario (as an assistant), Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Kaka, Karim Benzema, Mesut Ozil, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Petr Cech, Luka Modric, Samuel Eto'o, Javier Zanetti, Lucio, and so many more. Walking in to coach Kylian Mbappe and his ego is nothing to him, because he's coached at least five more accomplished forwards in his life time. And he's neither going to get walked over nor play favorites like Alonso did, and he's actually going to be able to relate to players who want to win and know how to win like Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, and Fede Valverde - the same three Alonso and his Mickey Mouse ideas of coaching could not relate to.
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