It is starting to feel like Alvaro Arbeloa's days at Real Madrid are numbered, even as there is an outpouring of support for the Spanish coach from places as far and wide as the English media. The Real Madrid manager has earned the respect and admiration of not only his peers but also of his players, who have, to put it bluntly, showed very little admiration for anyone in another dreary season.
But we all know how ambitious Florentino Perez is and how much he craves both the big names, even among the managers, and the trophies. Arbeloa is setting up to be another casualty of the age old Real Madrid rule that every manager must win a trophy, even as he inherited Carlo Ancelotti's trophyless season and took on the thankless task of succeeding Xabi Alonso after the squad effectively mutineed on him,
Real Madrid are already looking at some of the best and brightest options that the managerial market has to offer. Zinedine Zidane, Jose Mourinho, and Jurgen Klopp headline the list, but there is another World Cup winner and big name on the radar - and he's definitely a better international option than people like Didier Deschamps and Joachim Low who have been linked over the years.
Real Madrid are watching a friend of Lionel Messi
According to a report from Abraham P. Romero of El Mundo, Argentina national team manager Lionel Scaloni is also on the slowly growing shortlist of big names that Florentino Perez is considering to replace Alvaro Arbeloa in the manager's seat this summer.
Scaloni took over the Argentina job without any managerial experience in 2018 and immediately turned around the fortunes of a country that had come off a bitter disappointment in the 2014 World Cup Final and risked falling behind.
He brought Lionel Messi World Cup glory for the first time and turned Argentina into a team that was far less dependent on the former Barcelona star. Scaloni's projection to club football is very risky, seeing as how he's never managed everyone in this very different game of club football. But he is worth having on the list as an option, especially if Real Madrid are going to go ahead and seriously consider folks like Didier Deschamps on the French side that Scaloni outcoached in the Final.
Real Madrid want to hire someone established and who works well with players, and Scaloni does check off these two important boxes.
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