Real Madrid have not had the best of seasons. In fact, the last two seasons for the club have been terrible based on the standards they set for themselves. They are almost always challenging for titles, but as of late, they have not really looked good enough to win any.
Things changed last season with Carlo Ancelotti, and after his departure, it felt like there was a need for a new manager to come in and steady the ship.
Real Madrid needed a younger manager to introduce a different style of football, one with more of a tactical identity in a way to change with the times of modern football.
In just six months, that new manager, Xabi Alonso - who was the most sought-after coach in football at the time - was sacked. And just like that, Real Madrid were back where they used to be. Without a plan, without a way to go.
Xabi Alonso truthers have another reason to want Florentino Perez out
Alvaro Arbeloa came in and tried to fix things as best as he could, but even that was not enough. Since then, there have been many people who were against the sacking of Alonso, talking about how things need to change at the club.
That is what electoral candidate Enrique Riquelme believes, too. He keeps talking about a change in the way Real Madrid are run as a football club, and how they should believe in a full-fledged project rather than looking for stop-gaps.
He also talked about the sacking of Alonso, and how everything felt premature with that as well.
He said: "Firing Xabi Alonso was a mistake. How can you expect a coach to build a project in 3 months? He should've been backed by the club, and given the power to manage the dressing room."
This would give people who supported Alonso and were against Real Madrid and Perez a lot of ammo. They may not necessarily want Florentino Perez out, but a lot of the fanbase indicated that the power should shift from the players back to the club and, to an extent, to the coach as well.
It was a project at the end of the day, and Real Madrid decided to pull the plug on it in just a few months, which was a little surprising.
It is always a weird situation where the club gives preference to players over managers, but with Real Madrid, that is almost always how it has been.
With the exception of a season or two, Real Madrid have always thought of players as the people who win the titles, and coaches as the people they tend to replace to make the players work better.
With modern football going in a different direction, many people think that this is not the way to go about it, and Real Madrid should stick to long-term projects with managers and build a squad without egos - or at least without those egos having all the power.
This is what Riquelme may be working for as well - at least for the project part - and all those people who backed Alonso will have another reason to want Perez out of the club. Whether that will happen, or whether that is the right thing for the club to do, is a separate discussion altogether.
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