No Real Madrid manager stands a chance with this squad. Even though Alvaro Arbeloa tried his best to play nice and placate the personalties run amok in the Merengue dressing room, he, too, is befalling the same fate that the more tactically accomplished Xabi Alonso faced during his all too brief stint at the helm of the biggest club in world football.
Alonso found himself on the wrong end of the graces of the president Florentino Perez and the star players of the club, and while Arbeloa does have the backing of figures like Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham, Perez is clearly not a fan of the Spanish international in the dugout.
And as the season winds down and Arbeloa's days become numbered, the links to Jose Mourinho only grow, and the rumors from behind the scenes about how the club feels about Arbeloa feel increasingly harsh.
Real Madrid have no use for Alvaro Arbeloa
The latest comes after the blow up between star midfielders Fede Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni, in which the tensions between the two key players came to blows. According to a report from Diario AS, via the Madrid Zone, apparently the powers that be at Real Madrid were not happy with the fact that Alvaro Arbeloa did not intervene during the ugly incident between Valverde and Tchouameni.
This may seem like a small thing, but at Real Madrid, whenever something happens, there are people who like to potray a certain narrative that indicates their feelings about someone. And it appears Real Madrid's front office think Arbeloa is weak and want to portray that he is weak, even in ways in which no reasonable person would consider him weak.
It would be ridiculous for Arbeloa to place himself in harm's way when Aurelien Tchouameni and Fede Valverde are about to come to blows. Fede was concussed in the fight, and it is totally unreasonable to fault Arbeloa for not mixing it up.
Any thing that happens from here on out, Arbeloa is going to be the person Real Madrid try to use as the scapegoat. That is because Florentino Perez and the club have no use for him. Everyone knows he is done as the manager soon and will be replaced by Jose Mourinho - or even somebody else. Meanwhile, Perez will want to keep almost all of his stars around, even players like Kylian Mbappe and Fede who seem to be causing problems behind the scenes. So Arbeloa is going to keep being the scapegoat from here on out, thrown just a little bit more under the bus each time.
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