The wheels are falling off the Real Madrid bus, and, lately, the club have felt like a dumpster fire on the level of Tottenham Hotspur or 2020 Schalke with the amount of mortifyingly embarrasing news emanating from the Valdebebas on a near daily basis. It would be more appropriate to count the number of people at the club who have not made a total mockery of themselves than to list everyone who has tanked their proverbial stock this season.
But as managers are scapegoated and the club implodes into a scorching inferno from within, a retrospective at least leaves one respected member of the club's history looking a lot better in hindsight, former manager Carlo Ancelotti.
About a year ago at this time, many Madridistas could not wait to see the end of the Italian manager at the Santiago Bernabeu. Real Madrid were falling behind Barcelona, and they were worse despite adding Kylian Mbappe to a team that won the Champions League and L Liga. Carlo's supposedly antiquated ideas had worn thin, and Real wanted to see that famous end to a cycle.
Carlo Ancelotti really is the GOAT
Well, careful what you wish for, because look at where Real Madrid are at now with even more locker room strife and even further behind Barcelona in La Liga. And according to a report from Jose Felix Diaz of Diario AS, via the Madrid Zone, despite fans not hearing nearly as much drama last season, Carlo Ancelotti was dealing with the same bad behavior in the 2024/25 season. It's just that Carletto reportedly did such a great job, he was able to calm things down before they became major issues and big stories in the news; that's why people never heard about as many problems.
It makes a ton of sense. Ancelotti is arguably the greatest man manager of all time, to the point where Real Madrid fans really took him for granted, especially last season. And it would also make sense for the problems in the Madrid dressing room with egoes to have been there before this season started, simply papered over by Ancelotti.
The problem is that while Real Madrid fans should look at this with more appreciation for Ancelotti, Florentino Perez and the club can't look at this as vindication or a reason to think that a manager is the solution and the managers Real recently had after Carlo were the problem. No, the squad is the problem, and only a literal all timer in Carletto even had a prayer of stopping the fuse from blowing.
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