It's safe to say this season has been an unmitigated disaster for Real Madrid. On the pitch it's been some of the worst football the team has played in years but the behind the scenes is where it's even worse for Los Blancos. We all know about the unrest between that players and management but the latest reports coming out of Spain show truly just how out of hand things have gotten at the Bernabeu this season.
As being reported my MadridXtra on X, the emotional strain at Real Madrid has gotten so bad we are at a point where six players refuse to speak with manager Alvaro Arbeloa, and some players even refuse to speak with each other creating an environment of toxicity that shows no signs of improving anytime soon.
The Real Madrid nightmare keeps going from bad to worse
We all knew the tension and unrest in the dressing room was bad, but not this bad. We saw the cracks starting to show in the early days under Xabi Alonso when Vinicius Jr threw his temper tantrum after being substituted in El Clasico back in October and that set the precedent for how the players can act towards the manager which ultimately led to Alonso's downfall and has stuck around to effect Arbeloa as well.
And with all that we've seen since Arbeloa arrived, one can argue the situation is worse now than it was under Xabi Alonso. Players refusing to speak to the manager, refusing to speak to each other, a locker room bust up between Carreras and Rudiger, and now Marca also reports Valverde and Tchouameni got into a fight during traing and almost physically fought which has just added even more fuel to an already raging fire inside the dressing room that at this point seems unfixable.
Arbeloa will be leaving at the end of the season and a new manager will be coming in to try and sort out this mess but at this point is it even fixable? All signs point to Jose Mourinho being the man to come in but at this point in his career and with the current state of the dressing room Mourinho will not fix it. No, he will come in and blow everything up in a blaze of overly dramatic glory like he knows how and once he inevitably either leaves on his own or gets sacked the dressing room will most likely be even more broken than how he found it.
El Clasico is this weekend, Real Madrid are most likely going to lose the league to Barcelona in the Camp Nou, you'd think the players would be more focused on not getting embarrassed by their bitter rivals than fighting with each other but they seem to have different priorities than winning, which sums up the current state of the club.
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