Real Madrid have been a train wreck this season, and as rumors abound about how president Florentino Perez wants to make a huge splash by reuniting with Jose Mourinho to replace Alvaro Arbeloa despite the players and many in the board wanting to stick wtih a manager who has already been their third in the past year, concern has to be setting in.
A lot of the issues at Real Madrid right now are down to decisions Perez and the board - which is really just Perez, at this point - have made around building the squad. For example, Carlo Ancelotti told Perez all about the players Real Madrid needed in order to stay on top, especially defensive players.
Perez ignored him and signed nobody, watching instead as Carletto had to navigate injuries and insane depth issues defensively. He never replaced legends Toni Kroos and Luka Modric either, leaving Ancelotti and then Xabi Alonso with a leadership and control crisis.
Florentino Perez is losing himself
Alvaro Arbeloa came in to stabilize a squad that Kylian Mbappe's arrival had destabilized - and only the guile of Carlo Ancelotti somewhat kept at bay from the full on crisis that cost Alonso his job prematurely - and now Perez wants to axe him for a vanity splash and a much more volatile personality than the ones before in Jose Mourinho - you know, the guy who basically victim blamed Vinicius Junior after Gianluca Prestianni abused him in the Champions League.
Florentino Perez is showing a side of himself that is far less comfortable, measured, and intelligent than the one who learned from his mistakes in the Galacticos era and built Real Madrid into an absolute machine from 2013 to 2024. Now, Real Madrid are trophy less for two straight seasons, overreactive instead of proactive and smart on the market, and chasing short term highs instead of building a real project.
He has become everything he does not want to be, and, in a way, is replicating his errors from the first Galacticos era with a Galacticos 2.0 that feels even more disillusioned than the first iteration. Perez has put his own desires over the sporting, and with so much of a focus on the big Santiago Bernabeu stadium and on international outreach, even the flavor of the grounds and the passion of the fan base feels diluted, filled with Kylian Mbappe and Florentino sycophants rather than the true Madrdistas who have willed this great club to Remontadas on Champions League nights.
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